The document summarizes artifacts and information about memorial sites related to victims of the Titanic sinking located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It describes the last surviving deck chair from the Titanic, replicas, and artifacts like furniture and machinery recovered from the ship. It provides details about the largest Titanic cemetery in Halifax, including that it contains about 121 graves laid out in the shape of the ship's hull, with plain markers for unidentified victims. It notes one grave of a child who was later identified through DNA research and buried near his mother.
Mr. Schwan's neighbor Doug, ham radio operator KA0GYF, traveled to Washington, DC recently. The SMLS5 class had two conversations with Doug via ham radio before and during the trip. This conversation was on the morning of October 21, 2009 from the Florida House, Florida's embassy in Washington. Thank you, Doug (and wife, Marilyn) for taking the time to visit our classroom via radio!
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Mr. Schwan's neighbor Doug, ham radio operator KA0GYF, traveled to Washington, DC recently. The SMLS5 class had two conversations with Doug via ham radio before and during the trip. This conversation was on the morning of October 21, 2009 from the Florida House, Florida's embassy in Washington. Thank you, Doug (and wife, Marilyn) for taking the time to visit our classroom via radio!
Deloitte’s ninth annual back-to-school survey reveals the latest trends likely to impact spending in the 2016 school season. With school supplies, clothing, and backpacks at the top the list, find out when and where will consumers shop, how much they will spend and on what products, how digital technologies will influence shopping behavior, and more. http://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consumer-business/articles/back-to-school-survey.html
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As the Ground Shares Its Secrets. (cover story)
Tolson, Jay
U.S. News & World Report. 1/29/2007, Vol. 142 Issue 4, p64-67. 2p. 3
Color Photographs.
Article
*HISTORY
*COLONIES
*ARCHAEOLOGY
JAMESTOWN (Va.)
GREAT Britain
AMERICA
UNITED States
The article discusses the work that archaeologist William Kelso has
performed at the original site of the Jamestown colony. After visiting the
site as a graduate student at the College of William and Mary in the
1960s, Kelso formulated a theory that the original fortress in the colony
was not in the low-lying stretch of ground now underwater. The article
presents details concerning Kelso's theories about the Jamestown
settlement.
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Special Report - The Jamestown Story
As the Ground Shares Its Secrets
A DETERMINED ARCHAEOLOGIST CHALLENGES OLD BELIEFS
On the south side of Jamestown Island stands an imposing bronze statue of Capt. John Smith, put up in
1907 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the colony he helped to found. For most of the past century,
a loose archaeological consensus held that the statue looked out over the site of the original settlement, a
stretch of low-lying ground long ago eaten away by the swiftly flowing currents of the James River.
The loss of that land, and the stories that its subterranean contents might have told, became a kind of coda
to the standard historical interpretation of the colony itself: that Jamestown had been a largely unsuccessful
venture, carried out by genteel adventurers and military men ill-suited to the task of wresting a livelihood
from a rugged wilderness. That they had failed to build their palisaded encampment on higher ground was
further proof of their ineptitude. No wonder Jamestown took a back seat to Plymouth Rock in American
history textbooks.
Lingering doubts. But one man who had doubts about the established consensus has been almost single-
handedly responsible for overturning it-and with it, much of the older thinking about the first years of the
Virginia Company's colony. Since 1993, as chief archaeologist of the Association for the Preservation of
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Virginia Antiquities, William Kelso has been directing the Jamestown Rediscovery Project, pursuing a hunch
born exactly 30 years before. A graduate student at the nearby College of William and Mary when he first
visited the island, he was unconvinced by the park ranger's spiel. Why, Kelso wondered, would those first
settlers not have put their base on higher ground where later, during the Civil War, Confederate soldiers had
thrown up an artillery earthwork? Kelso knew that desultory digs in and around the Civil War mound in the
1950s had failed to find trac ...
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As the Ground Shares Its Secrets. (cover story)
Tolson, Jay
U.S. News & World Report. 1/29/2007, Vol. 142 Issue 4, p64-67. 2p. 3
Color Photographs.
Article
*HISTORY
*COLONIES
*ARCHAEOLOGY
JAMESTOWN (Va.)
GREAT Britain
AMERICA
UNITED States
The article discusses the work that archaeologist William Kelso has
performed at the original site of the Jamestown colony. After visiting the
site as a graduate student at the College of William and Mary in the
1960s, Kelso formulated a theory that the original fortress in the colony
was not in the low-lying stretch of ground now underwater. The article
presents details concerning Kelso's theories about the Jamestown
settlement.
1283
00415537
23828219
Academic Search Complete
Special Report - The Jamestown Story
As the Ground Shares Its Secrets
A DETERMINED ARCHAEOLOGIST CHALLENGES OLD BELIEFS
On the south side of Jamestown Island stands an imposing bronze statue of Capt. John Smith, put up in
1907 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the colony he helped to found. For most of the past century,
a loose archaeological consensus held that the statue looked out over the site of the original settlement, a
stretch of low-lying ground long ago eaten away by the swiftly flowing currents of the James River.
The loss of that land, and the stories that its subterranean contents might have told, became a kind of coda
to the standard historical interpretation of the colony itself: that Jamestown had been a largely unsuccessful
venture, carried out by genteel adventurers and military men ill-suited to the task of wresting a livelihood
from a rugged wilderness. That they had failed to build their palisaded encampment on higher ground was
further proof of their ineptitude. No wonder Jamestown took a back seat to Plymouth Rock in American
history textbooks.
Lingering doubts. But one man who had doubts about the established consensus has been almost single-
handedly responsible for overturning it-and with it, much of the older thinking about the first years of the
Virginia Company's colony. Since 1993, as chief archaeologist of the Association for the Preservation of
EBSCOhost http://ezproxy.wpunj.edu:2654/ehost/delivery?sid=3fefb1bd-1c57-4e9c-...
1 of 3 3/13/2013 5:33 PM
Virginia Antiquities, William Kelso has been directing the Jamestown Rediscovery Project, pursuing a hunch
born exactly 30 years before. A graduate student at the nearby College of William and Mary when he first
visited the island, he was unconvinced by the park ranger's spiel. Why, Kelso wondered, would those first
settlers not have put their base on higher ground where later, during the Civil War, Confederate soldiers had
thrown up an artillery earthwork? Kelso knew that desultory digs in and around the Civil War mound in the
1950s had failed to find trac ...
2. The Last Surviving Deck Chair This deck chair was retrieved from the individuals who collected the bodies from the ocean. It was originally given to the minster who blessed all the bodies. His family later donated it to the Maritime Museum in Halifax.
28. Unidentified or Unclaimed Passenger White Star Cruise Line purchased plain black granite gravestones for each victim. The number on the bottom represents the order in which the body was found.
31. Upgraded marker paid by Bruce Ismay (chairman of White Star Cruise Line) Bruce Ismay was an outcast of society after the Titanic tragedy. Many individuals felt he should have gone down with the ship. He order that captain to travel across the Atlantic at a dangerous speed and advertised that the Titanic was “unsinkable.”
32. Unknown Child of Titanic This child was later identified as Gosta Paulson (DNA research). Mother is buried just a few feet away. The Mom was identified by her ticket number that was in her pocket. The other 3 children were never found. The family were 3rd class passengers on the Titanic.
33. The cemetery is in the shape of the ship’s hull. The graves are not in a straight line. They were purposely bowed and bent in the shape of the ship’s hull. There is a gap left between graves on the right-hand side of the site representing were the ship hit the iceberg.
34. The Infamous Jack Dawson Grave (Titanic Movie) This is the gravesite James Dawson who was a coal stoker on the Titanic. He was actually a poor Irish man looking for work. James Dawson was 23 years of age.
35. A Grave Marker that Reflects Later Identification DNA research has allowed many unidentified victims to be identified. These names have been gradually painted on the sides of the grave markers.
36. Mount Olivet Cemetery Catholic cemetery that contains 19 graves. Families requested that they be buried in this cemetery.