Whoops! Excavating the Troutman Site on Veterans Day 1937
by Bernard K. Means On Veterans Day 1937, the WPA field crew under the direction of Edgar Augustine was laboring …
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A Giant Skull! A Monongahela Village! A WPA Excavation!
by Bernard K. Means In writing up the Fort Hill site report, Edgar Augustine noted a local pot hunter mentioned …
No Work Relief Labor on Labor Day: Edgar Augustine’s “Holiday”
by Bernard K. Means Today, September 2, 2013, is Labor Day in the U.S. and I thought I’d look back …
Re-Mapping the Past, or, Goodbye Utah!
by Bernard K. Means Thanks to a coding error on my part, I erroneously added a county in Utah to …
Coming Full Circle: New Deal archaeology and the Monongahela Tradition
by Bernard K. Means, Virtual Curation Laboratory My original interest in New Deal archaeology was sparked by work related to …
America’s Heritage and the New Deal
by Bernard K. Means New Deal work relief programs both intentionally and incidentally helped preserve and promote America’s cultural heritage. …
World War II and Pennsylvania’s New Deal Archaeology
by Bernard K. Means I’ve written in the past how World War II affected New Deal archaeology in general. Today, …
National WPA Remembrance Day and the Somerset County Relief Excavations
By Bernard K. Means Brent McKee, on his blog site New Deal of the Day, has suggested that May 6 …
Roosevelt’s “Tree Army” and America’s Past: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and New Deal Archaeology
By Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory @ VCU Today, April 5, 2013, marks the 80th anniversary …
A Rolling Chunkey Stone Gathers No Moss: Virtual Curation and WPA Archaeology
by Bernard K. Means, director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory The object I am holding in my hands is a …
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