Excavations at Tutter's Neck in James City County, Virginia, 1960-1961

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45741/45741-h/45741-h.htm

Words That say It Like It Really Is.

There is more than one way to explain something, but this quote I think is very good. It is hard to explain the feeling I get when touching original artifacts, and even copies! Hard to explain the feeling of dressing in period clothing and using 18th century items whilst trekking and camping in period style without anything to remind you of the 21 century.

I found this quote over at Frontier Partisans http://frontierpartisans.com/481/touching-the-past/#comment-226

“A feeling of immediate contact with the past is a sensation as deep as the purest enjoyment of art; it is an almost ecstatic sensation of no longer being myself, of overflowing into the world around me, of touching the essence of things, of through history experiencing the truth.”—Johan Huizinga, historian

Thanks for passing this on Jim.
Keith.

This wet week in Pennsylvania Archaeology

http://twipa.blogspot.com/2011/09/this-wet-week-in-pennsylvania.html