Archaeology… Chesapeake Creoles: The creation of folk culture in Colonial Virginia 24 Feb 202024 Feb 2020 A somewhat more complete scholarly version of this essay was originally published in The Archaeology of 17th-Century Virginia, Theodore R. Reinhart and Dennis J. Pogue, editors, pp. 107-123. The Archaeological Society of…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
essay… Just Like a War Zone 7 Jan 20177 Jan 2017 First published in my memoirs volume, Warbaby, Talking About My Generation. This was written in 1998 at a time that I was in the process of confronting the realities of…
essay… The Lotus Is a Flower 7 Jan 20177 Jan 2017 The Lotus (Sanskrit and Tibetan padma) is one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols and one of the most poignant representations of Buddhist teaching. The roots of a lotus are…
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