This is a job opening currently posted at the AIA website… no comment necessary. ————– Job Listing Casting for “Real-Life Indiana Jones” Travel Channel Description: Casting Call: Real-Life Indiana Jones Needed For National Television Series! THE SHOW: An exciting, new archeology adventure series for The Travel Channel. We’re journeying to the far-flung corners of the […]
I just had to post a picture of this tombstone found in the Magnolia Cemetery. Metaphorically, Dixie’s fears can be seen as being born sometime in the middle of the Civil War (both Gettysburg and the Emancipation Proclamation happened in 1863 and the tide seemed to be turning against the South) and continue until the […]
Back in December of 2005 I posted a blurb about the battle between the FCC and the wrireless industry about Section 106 compliance (see “Section 106 in Trouble?…”, December 07, 2005). At that time the wireless industry was attempting to further weaken the Section 106 process in regard to cell towers. In my opinion, we […]
Most archeologists have had troubles with the media from time to time–once a project I was involved with got the headline “Founding Fathers Ate Possum off Fine China.” However, so far I’ve had great results from the Magnolia Banner-News–more specifically Banner-News reporter Jen Brady. Ms. Brady did a great and detailed article on Frank Schambach’s […]
I apologize for the infrequent postings lately, but I have been posting a bit over at my other blog: The Ag Report: Letters From Magnolia. The Ag Report is meant to be mostly about Southwest Arkansas and my job at the Southern Arkansas University…This blog will still explore general anthropology/archeology/cultural studies stuff…I didn’t realize that […]
While I’m talking about identities…I’ve just returned from my second trip back to Fayetteville since I became the AAS-SAU Station Archeologist. Interestingly, I did not feel like a Station Archeologist until I returned to the main AAS office on the UofA Agricultural Campus… I drove the 5 hours up to Northwest Arkansas, parked in the […]
My friend Peggy Brunache is a Miami girl now living in Perth, Scotland…As she is struggling with being Haitian-American urbanite in a predominately rural, white country, I’m facing a different challenge in Magnolia, Arkansas… As I alluded to in my previous post (Call To Home), I’m from a small southern town myself….Hell, the county seat […]
Below is a section from Carol Stack’s Call To Home (a narrative-style ethnography/novel about urban African-Americans returning to their southern hometowns)…the passage struck me this afternoon–I can’t imagine why (he said sarcastically). I come from a small town in Western Tennessee. When I lived there I was considered an intellectual and not quite normal. When […]
We’re still hard at work getting the word out about the theft of a collection of Caddo pottery from the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Research Station at Southern Arkansas University. To date, we’ve given interviews to 5 TV stations, two radio networks and I forget how many newspapers–including the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Magnolia News Banner, The […]
On Friday (08/25/06) the successful defense of her dissertation on the industrial archaeology of Van Winkle’s Mill made Alicia Valentino the FIRST Ph.D. in anthropology produced by the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Alicia’s committee included Drs. George Sabo (chair), Kenneth Kvamme, Thomas Green, and Leslie “Skip” Stewart-Abernathy. I was there as were several other friends […]
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