Sorry to my handful of readers…I’ve been lagging a bit behind on the blog-front. I would love to say its due to getting settled in at the new job as a clerk at the JYF giftshops (which coincidentally, one of the first papers they made me sign was a statement saying I wouldn’t talk about my employment at the Foundation to/in any kind of public media, so let’s just hope they don’t read blogs—as if there would be much interesting to report from the giftshop aside from switching brands of plastic children’s compasses to sell). But honestly, I’ve been lagging behind in pretty much all aspects of life. All I want to do is sleep. I sleep in as late as I possibly can without being late to work. On days I don’t have to work I sleep until my stomach is so hungry I feel sick or I until I have to pee. When I come home from work the first thing I do is take a nap before dinner like it’s a warm-up run for the rest of the night. If I can’t sleep I do the next best thing and bury myself in a book or a tv series or a movie, just try and lose myself in someone else’s life, someone else’s story. Who wouldn’t choose running through Sherwood Forest with all your best friends high off the adrenaline of another survived-by-the-skin-of-your-teeth escapade over doing laundry? Who wouldn’t choose exchanging flirtatious spars with the smart-ass cavalier you love to hate over being written off yet again as just a friend? Or fighting off an army of revenants to save your father’s kingdom instead of standing at a cash register all day? Real life just has a hard time competing. Now I realize this is probably nowhere near healthy and so I’ve been really trying to be more social, thinking it should help. I go to movies, parties, dinners, out for coffee, out for drinks…and sometimes it helps and sometimes afterwards you feel twice as lonely as before...
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Anyways, while not much interesting has been going on in Miss Fox Pitt Rivers life, the Archaeological world has been quite another story:
First off, please tell me I’m not the only person shitting bricks about the boat that’s been discovered under the rubble of ground zero?
On July 13 a backhoe operating on the site started bringing up large curved timbers. After further examination archaeologists believe they’ve found remains of what appears to be the hull of an 18th century ship some 20 to 30 feet below street level. Samples of the wood are being sent off to see if they can be more accurately dated via dendrochronology. I am in no way trying to gloss over the horror of what happened there 9 years ago, but what a crazy random happenstance. I am very excited to see what comes of this- if they can identify the ship, or the owner, postulate how it got there, and see how it adds to our knowledge of New York as a port-city in the 1700’s.
And then on a more local scale there is the dig going on in downtown Hampton, VA.
On the corner of Queen and Wine Streets archaeologists came across the foundations of an 18th century building while examining the property as a future location for a bank. The excavation is now being carried out by James River Institute for Archaeology who believe the foundations are the remains of a home belonging to James Barron, a sailor distinguished in the revolutionary war for fighting against the British Navy. Artifacts being recovered promise to give further insights to colonial life and Hampton’s importance as one of the most bustling port cities in early American history. I have to give a tip of the fedora to the newspaper here for their excellent and zealous coverage of this developing journey into our community history, as it is something we should take pride and interest in. I know I'm following the story and keeping the clippings, thanks Daily Press!
