{"id":193,"date":"2017-03-30T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/?p=193"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:32:05","slug":"latest-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/latest-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called \u201cleaves\u201d) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time \u2015 proof that humans can work magic.\u201d \u2013 Carl Sagan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the late 70’s and early 1980s, I became interested in Archeology.\u00a0 I had taken several classes more or less just for fun. A good friend of mine, Ken Moore, a photojournalist,\u00a0 of Taunton, MA, and local Archeologist,\u00a0 would often take me on his expeditions across Massachusetts.\u00a0 Later, as I had always an interest in food and nutrition, I decided to go into the field of culinary imagination.\u00a0 I had taken courses at UMass Dartmouth, or Southeastern Mass University as it was known then.\u00a0 Chef Bows, put the notion in my head, to merge both Archeology and Nutrition in my studies.\u00a0 Which I did. Its now called Nutritional Anthropology.\u00a0 I studied, as best as I could, Native American Indian “diets and nutrition” of Massachusetts. \u00a0 After Ken died, I decided to put Archeology on the back\u00a0 burner for a while, (he had all the connections) Ken had introduced me to many\u00a0distinguished scholars and I was very grateful to him. \u00a0 I stayed with the food service\u00a0 for years, as both Chef and dietitian.\u00a0\u00a0 And then,\u00a0 computer science and forensic photography.\u00a0 That’s a story for another time. After retirement, I resumed my education with studies in Geology, Environmental Science, Ecological Principles and Field Methods, along with Environmental Research Methods. I my received a degree in April 2018.\u00a0 My wife constantly tells me to further my education. Maybe she just wants me out of the house.<\/p>\n

I continue to have the love of Archeology, and you can still find me in the field every now and then with the grandchildren, or my wife. And listen silently, to Chloe asking, “can we bring those bugs home gram pa”<\/p>\n

Chloe my youngest grandchild was once digging a hole in my back yard. I asked her what she was doing.\u00a0 “digging a hole to China skippy” was her answer.\u00a0 7 years old.\u00a0 Most determined kid I know. You see her in this blog often.<\/p>\n

Abbey is our Physics and Biology major. But she is my Granddaughter first and foremost.\u00a0 Her skills as a video editor are (Mac & Windows) is unsurpassed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called \u201cleaves\u201d) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, … <\/p>\n

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