Sounds like an altogether lovely day. Reading your description of it was quite nice, in and of itself.
The shipwreck sounds particularly fascinating--I've seen many of them in museums, but I don't think I've ever met with one in the sand like that. I remember the article about it from some time ago; was it you who linked it?
Hurrah for "The Mirror of Venus," which I am going off to read, and for the new acceptance.
There's a Jenny Lind Tower? Interesting. I'm amused by the bloke dressed as a table; for some reason this reminds me of the fellow who came to a Halloween party at U of Chicago dressed as a head on a platter, with a platter cut in half, holed, and fitted round his neck and a black tablecloth attached round the edges to hide his body.
I don't know why no museum or historical society has excavated the wreck.
Probably a lack of funding, combined with its not being in obvious and immediate danger. It's amazing how much archaeology is dependent on something else needing done; it seems as if every project I ever worked on, back to field school, happened at least in part because something was being built, or at least renovated. Stuff eroding out sometimes leads to an excavation, but it seems as if most of the time that I've heard of it lately there was an aggravating factor like human remains or the suspicion of it being something of great historical significance.
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The shipwreck sounds particularly fascinating--I've seen many of them in museums, but I don't think I've ever met with one in the sand like that. I remember the article about it from some time ago; was it you who linked it?
Hurrah for "The Mirror of Venus," which I am going off to read, and for the new acceptance.
There's a Jenny Lind Tower? Interesting.
I'm amused by the bloke dressed as a table; for some reason this reminds me of the fellow who came to a Halloween party at U of Chicago dressed as a head on a platter, with a platter cut in half, holed, and fitted round his neck and a black tablecloth attached round the edges to hide his body.
I don't know why no museum or historical society has excavated the wreck.
Probably a lack of funding, combined with its not being in obvious and immediate danger. It's amazing how much archaeology is dependent on something else needing done; it seems as if every project I ever worked on, back to field school, happened at least in part because something was being built, or at least renovated. Stuff eroding out sometimes leads to an excavation, but it seems as if most of the time that I've heard of it lately there was an aggravating factor like human remains or the suspicion of it being something of great historical significance.
It's a pity, really.