This winter my article entitled “Reversing the Narrative of Hillbilly History: A Case Study Using Archaeology at Van Winkle’s Mill in the Arkansas Ozarks” was published in Historical Archaeology 47(3):36–51. The article was a part of a thematic issue co-edited by Paul Shackel and Michael Roller entitled “Reversing the Narrative” which examines the relationships between […]
“…it all happened in the Ozark Mountains, many miles from what we of the city call civilization.” –Harold Bell Wright (1907:1) News came out today that a longtime Ozark tradition is taking a final bow. The Shepherd of the Hills Outdoor Theater in Branson, MO announced it will close on October 19, 2013. For 54 […]
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 […]
Below you see 9 years of my life on a table–the Van Winkle’s Mill Archeological Project collection. I started this project in October of 1997 with Jerry Hilliard & James Davidson, and I “finished” it (barring new plans by Arkansas State Parks) with Alicia Valentino in October of 2005. Today I prepared all 81 boxes […]
Well…I’m currently back in Northwest Arkansas–packing books, tying up loose ends on my NWA projects (i.e., getting Van Winkle’s Mill into the curation facility) and assorted other things related to the Magnolia move. Another thing I’ve been working on are a set of web pages for the SAU Research Station–currently only the SAU and UAM […]
As the spring semester winds down and the summer semesters begin, I’ll not be posting as much as I have been this spring. I’ll be helping out at an archeological fieldschool at Van Winkle’s Mill during the first summer semester & working on a monograph of the work we’ve been doing at Van Winkle’s Mill […]
farther along... 