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 …
Category Archives: Pennsylvania
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 …
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 …
Happy New Year’s Eve from the WPA’s Somerset County Archaeological Society
by Bernard K. Means, Virtual Curation Laboratory There were was only one day that the WPA-funded Somerset County Archaeological Society …
Christmas Eve, WPA-style: Winter Excavations at the Hanna Site, Somerset County, PA
by Bernard K. Means The W in WPA stands for work. If WPA crews did not work, they did not …
Digging the New Deal
by Bernard K. Means I began my interest in New Deal archaeology somewhat obliquely. In the early 1990s, the Pennsylvania …
New Deal Archaeology in Somerset County, Pennsylvania: New Technologies and Old Data
by Bernard K. Means, Virtual Curation Laboratory My interest in New Deal archaeology began with work conducted in Somerset County, …
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