Archaeology… The Pisspot in the Museum or What are you looking for? What have you found? What will you do with it now? 12 Mar 20171 Apr 2023 This is a mid-late 1990s update of a 1985 presentation. I have written much about interpretation and critical narrative largely as they apply to method or epistemology. The word “interpretation”…
Archaeology… Looking for My Past 12 Mar 20171 Apr 2023 I need some help from old friends and colleagues. When I retired from my position at VCU, it was necessary for me to simply walk away without looking back, without…
essay… Mary Randolph, The Virginia Housewife and the “Other” American Revolution 7 Jan 201725 Feb 2022 "Mrs. David Meade Randolph" by Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852, artist - Library of Congress The first regional cookbook in America was Mary Randolph’s The Virginia Housewife. Published…
Archaeology… Reading “Jane Randolph Her Book.” 7 Jan 2017 To make Alamode Beef Take a Bullocks heart cut of ye Strings Skinns & Deaf ears & fat then Stick it with a Scewer in many Places, then take…
Archaeology… Can there be a Pragmatic Archaeology? 7 Jan 20177 Jan 2017 Comments on Carol McDavid's "Archaeology as Cultural Critique: Pragmatism and the Archaeology of a Southern United States Plantation" Originally published in 1999 in Philosophy and Archaeological Practice, Perspectives for the 21st…
Culture Wars… The War is Never Over. The Revolution is Never Won 7 Jan 20177 Jan 2017 TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016 I am an unreconstructed Flower Child, matured and mellowed a bit, but I have never surrendered to what seems to be any version of “normal” USA…
Archaeology… Making Mrs. Cary’s “Good Ale.” Brewing Beer in Colonial Virginia 7 Jan 20177 Jan 2017 A version of this article appeared in Brew Your Own magazine in January 2003. See that edited version here: http://byo.com/stories/issue/item/479-colonial-ale Have you ever dreamed about digging in the ground…
Gender… I’m Glad My Husband is Gay! 7 Jan 201731 Jan 2017 Parts of this article first appeared in the essay “Transitions,” in War Baby: Talking About My Generation by L. Daniel Mouer, Createspace 2011. The present version has been updated for inclusion in Love,…
Gender… Manhood and the Killing Thing 7 Jan 201712 Apr 2023 This essay was first published, in an earlier form, in my original "Genderwonky" blog. I then included it as a chapter in my memoirs book. In resurrecting "Genderwonky," I am…
Culture Wars… Pink or Blue? A War Veteran Learns to Knit 7 Jan 201712 Mar 2017 This essay was first published, in an earlier form, in "Genderwonky" on Blogger. My mother taught me to knit. Mind you, I didn’t learn how to knit from my mother, but she taught…
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