Okay so, it has been a LONG time since I last updated or came on here. I mean, maybe, and I keep saying this, some time in the future I will actually get back into the community here. At the moment however, I find myself otherwise occupied.

Work: Great, fantastic, rewarding... and so on. I love working with kids. Had a good first two weeks of work, only six more to go

School: Overall 3.01 average. Gonna get it up even higher next semester with the classes I have lined up.

Travel: Just got my passport and my first car ever, a Honda Civic. I have been driving for a few years but this is the first car that is mine. I don't want a different car, but somehow having one at last is not as thrilling a prospect as it was when I was younger. Just not a gear head. This coming winter break I will be going to the Dominican Republic. Gonna geek it up with some botany students and my awesome professor and advisor for about two weeks in the jungle.

Hobbies: Lots of work with Labradorite. I have come into the possession of pieces that are of higher quality than ever, bigger, better, more of them. I just found the jackpot and spent a few days out prospecting. Allready made a few things but I don't know when I will be able to post them, and I don't know when I will be able to make more.

Archeology: This is supposed to be on the down low, but heck, no one is gonna find out about these things through DA. I think I am in the legal right but not entirely sure, for venturing into a tidal bog just a five minute walk from my shed. They did a lot of work to open up the marsh to more tidal water flow so it has exposed all kinds of new items. So far I have found in only four days digging (from oldest to newest)

1 English Flint made to fit a musket or other flintlock firearm.

1 Small heavy drawn glass bottle with an applied ring on the neck American made light aquamarine 1840-1860, appraised at $75 minimum.

1 Large heavy drawn champagne bottle with an applied ring on the neck American made,dark green 1840-1860 probably later in that period given the size, appraised at a minimum of $40.

(the following two items were found among wooden pilings sticking out of the mud, and among recently exposed leather straps and rectangles that were very heavy duty.)

1 large two gallon ceramic ovoid jug, missing the loop handle and with one side caved in. I put it back together like a jig saw puzzle and it should hold once I get glue. 1845-1870. Were it in perfect condition it could be worth upwards of $250 but sadly it is not.

1 wooden pole with a serpentine slot cut from most of it's length but left attached, and a hole drilled in one end. Found with the clay jug

1 medicine jar made from glass containing manganese, causing it to turn a light lavender color with exposure to solar radiation. Diagonal seem places it later than 1880. As the sunlight it is now exposed to darkens its color its value will appreciate.

(the following two items were found in a pit containing various pottery and glass, fragments some of which had applied rings on the neck dating to the late 1860's. The medecine bottle was from the 1880's so the items are of mixed date and origin)

1 small clear medicine bottle mentioned below.

4 Ceramic liquor bottles, one in two tight fitting pieces, one with a crack running down the side, one with a chipped neck, and one in perfect condition. Likely foreign made, date unknown but found with a small medicine bottle with a diagonal seem likely dating sometime after 1880.

(The following items were found together among the remains of some kind of wooden box or chest. They represent a sailor's personal affects dating to the 1880's)

6 clay pipes for smoking tobacco. Each has heavily used. Clay pipes of the time would have long stems that inevitably broke and became shorter and shorter, several are practically stubs. Five are labeled McDougall and one is labeled ACME.

2 Liniment bottles, one twice the size of the other and with their corks still in place. Both are labeled "E Heartshorn & Sons Boston, Established 1850" Light to deep aquamarine.

1 wooden handle to a brush, the brush part was rotted to almost being unrecognizable and crumbled in my hands as I pulled it from the mud.

1 medicine bottle with diagonal seem. Clear. Labeled "West, Trafford & Co Westport Mass" One of the rectangular sides reads "Wonderful" and the other reads "Discovery"

1 small aquamarine flask. Seams running up the sides but not into the neck. No label. No need for a label though since the cork is still in, and the rum (confirmed with a whiff and a taste) is still inside. Appraised at a minimum of $35 without the rum considered.

1 small wooden carving of a sailboat. The mast, bowsprit, and rudder have rotted away but the hull seems untouched by time. Underside is inked or painted black. Probably made my the owner of the box in his spare time at sea.

1 small brass clasp or rivet of some sort.

(The following items are unknown in age)

1 wooden screw about the size of a salt shaker and very weathered.

1 decorative oval with cast tin displaying leaves and plants.

1 brass oval declaring the design of some long ago disintegrated coffee mill to be patented.


I have no intention of selling these items. I have been told by some that at least a few of these, such as the contents of the sailor's chest belong in a museum. My family has lived in this area since the mayflower landed, and I am reluctant to give up a piece of my own history. Your thoughts would be appreciated. If I wanted to, I could pull out pottery shards by the bucket full and treat them like a jig saw puzzle but I'm not ready for that yet.