Archaeology/Genealogy

Genealogy

1. Fergen Family of the Black Forest :  Reichstag, Germany, Chicago: The Great Depression and the city life of Chicago.  Although resources were strained,  the immigrant’s lives were better in America than in the countries from which they had come.  As they settled in the cities they formed ethnic neighborhoods with others from their native land.   At crucial points in the past, military prowess has established the role of the United States as a world power, but the character of its society has been even more important in defining its influence.  The millions of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York anticipated that in “the land of the free and home of the brave” they would enjoy opportunities not available from where they had come.  For those who remained in their own countries, America has served as an important example of political and economic freedom.   
2. Settlers of Cupheag: Fairchild Genealogy :  Pilgrims; Macs Harbor.  The shores of Cupheag where cellars were dug into the banks of Stratford Harbor for original shelters and land was purchased from the Indians. 
3. The Ancestors and Descendants of the Turuc and Schlacter Families : Romania and Yugoslavia Families in Chicago: Turuc, Mandula, Schlacter. The tyranny of Communism in Romania and Yugoslavia.  Not all of the family members survived or were able to become Free World Citizens.  America and it’s allies had won WWII against Nazi Germany and Japan and had rebuilt Western Europe and the Far East into very prosperous, democratic societies.  For more than 40 years, however, it could not win the Cold War against the Bolsheviks from Moscow that had enslaved more than 120 million people behind the Iron Curtain–food  shortages, brainwashing education in Marxist-Leninist ideology, forced labor disguised as volunteerism, and primitive healthcare. 
4. Wagons West: Kepler, Stemple and Fransen Genealogy :  Please enjoy my latest compilation of ancestor letters, notes, and photographs that I have been graciously supplied with:  American settlers, life on the prairie, Laura Ingalls, the Cuyahuga, and Harvey Dunn.
5. Mfairlady Flickr Images

History

1. Ancient Tidal Forests to Ocean Renewables:  Altamaha River Kayaking 
2. Apostle Islands Adaptive Paddling (Polio History; Brownstone)
3. Baraboo’s Ringling Riverfront (Ringling Bros.; Mastodon,)
4. Chinese Jade Carvings; Lizzadro Museum (Chinese Culture; Jade)
5. Flea Market Style:  Pre-loved and Deadstock Come Back to Life (Antiques; Vintage; Decorating)
6. Pompeii and Cosmology:  Ancient Rites and Recent Revivals
7. Sea Kayaking Narragansett Bay: Native American Footpaths and Soul Freedom (Roger Williams)

Archaeology

1. Exploring the Great Basin: From Camping in the Anzo-Borrego Desert, Hiking Around the Calico Early Man Site, to Sandboarding the Ancient Sand of Coral Pink Sand Dunes (pictographs, artifacts, rock shelters)
2. Cultural Ecology of the Atlantic Coast: Shell Middens and Ancient Tidal Forests (Guale Indians; Shell Rings; Shark Teeth)
3. Owsley’s Kennewick Man Research may be Trumped by DNA Tests Similar to Anzick Child
4. Douglas Owsley Chooses to Omit Peer-Review on Kennewick Man Research
5. Pompeii and Cosmology:  Ancient Rites and Recent Revivals
6. Kayaking Georgia’s Coast:  Tidal Flat Ecosystems, Ancient History, and Stewardship (Shell Midden)

7. Jekyll and Cumberland Island: Surf Workshop With Geneva Kayak (Federal Reserve; Shell Midden)

8. John Ruskamp Speaks at ESCONI: Midwestern Epigraphic Society, Pseudoarcheology, and Xenoarchaeology Today (Pictographs)
9. Sea Change and Sea Kayaking (Door County ; Artifacts)
10. Sea Kayaking Narragansett Bay: Native American Footpaths and Soul Freedom (Cairns)
11. Watertrails Reveal Rich Archaeological History in the Midwest  (Aztalan; The Palace Site)

Native American

1. Cultural Ecology of the Atlantic Coast: Shell Middens and Ancient Tidal Forests (Guale Indians; Shell Rings; Shark Teeth)  

2. Kayaking the Apostle Islands: Kennedys, Native Americans, Religion, and Myth (La Pointe; Ojibwe)

3. Local Native Americans Buried in Blue Wing Cemetery by Ross M. Curry
4. Old Copper Culture:  A Visit With Pete Stark
5. Paddling Lake Okoboji (Inkapaduta; Abbie Gardner)
6. Sea Kayaking Narragansett Bay: Native American Footpaths and Soul Freedom
7. Wisconsin Dells History: A Walk With Ross M. Curry
8. Wisconsin’s Indian Mounds