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Field School in Thunder Bay, Michigan...Story on Page 8 JANUARY tem to tern 2014 A Newsletter for our Maritime Studies Alumni and Friends v o l u m e 30 pS r o g r a m i n m a r i t i m e s t u d i e s S e a s t c a r o l i n a u n i v e r s i t y g r e e n v i l l e n c Field School in Thunder Bay, Michigan. story on page 8 From the Editorial Staff / Director 2 Maritimers on the Road: 2013 Conference 4 Maritime Studies Association Activities 5 A New Face in Eller 6 Maritime Heritage Minnesota 7 Summer Field School in the Great Lakes 8 Fall Field School on the Outer Banks 8 Currituck County Maritime Heritage Fellowship 10 “QAR” Excavation and Recovery 12 Parris Island 13 Mystic Seaport 14 Aquarius Reef Base 15 RPM Nautical Foundation – Sicily 16 RPM Nautical Foundation – Albania 18 Wisconsin Historical Society 19 Diving Pewabic 21 Ahoy Mates! Welcome to ECU 22 Where are our Maritimers now? 24 tem to tern S. a newsletter of East CarolinaS University’s Program in Maritime Studies Core Faculty: Bradley A. Rodgers, PhD, Director Susanne Grieve, MA Lynn B. Harris, PhD Jennifer McKinnon, PhD Nathan Richards, PhD asserley c David J. Stewart, PhD ane t : hoto p Contributing Faculty: Alyssa Reisner during summer field school on Ogarita shipwreck, Thunder Bay National Marine Wade Dudley, PhD Sanctuary. Michael A. Palmer, PhD Carl E. Swanson, PhD Staff Archaeologist: From the Editorial Staff: Calvin Mires From the Editorial Staff: I hope that everyone holding this magazine is as excited to read it as I was during the Office Manager: editing process! Seeing the variety of accomplishments, projects, stories, and pictures from Karen Underwood this year is almost overwhelming. This is particularly true, as Stem to Stern has expanded this year to a whopping 28 pages. Reasons for this include a variety of new opportunities Editor: for maritime students here at ECU, the largest second-year class in the program’s history, Chelsea Freeland and an extended focus on above-water activities and job prospects. This year’s volume continues to highlight the exciting lives of the students here in the Program in Maritime Studies. We had students in the Mediterranean, Lakes Michigan and Huron, the Outer Assistant Editor: Banks Atlantic coast, and the mouth of the Cape Fear River. In addition, there were several Melissa Price projects onshore, including small boat recording in Charleston and educational outreach in Published annually by the Program in Corolla. Back at home, we added a new face to Eller this year, with the arrival of Dr. Jennifer Maritime Studies, East Carolina University. McKinnon. This magazine serves to connect Eller House with the rest of the world. Readers are encouraged to submit informa- Therefore, from our outpost behind the McDonald’s, we encourage you to travel the globe tion and news to the editor. Any suggestions with us as you read about this year’s amazing accomplishments. or comments should be directed to the editor. – Chelsea Freeland We look forward to hearing from you. If you would like to receive a free sub- Greetings fellow Maritimers! I initially discovered Stem to Stern through East Carolina scription to Stem to Stern, please telephone University’s Program in Maritime Studies website. I was delighted to read about people 252-328-6097, fax 252-328-6754, or write: who were just as interested in maritime archaeology as I was, which amplified my Stem to Stern eagerness to begin my first year as a graduate student. I was also impressed with the host Program in Maritime Studies of opportunities available to the students in this program and realized that Stem to Stern is Admiral Ernest M. Eller House the perfect way to chronicle our accomplishments. Join me as we discover what the ECU East Carolina University students, faculty, staff, and alumni have been up to this past year! Greenville, NC 27858-4353 – Melissa Price Please visit the ECU Maritime Studies Web site at www.ecu.edu/maritime for additional news and information about the Front COVER: Jeneva Wright (left) and Kara Fox (right) during summer field school on Ogarita shipwreck, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. (Photo: Tane Casserley) program. A digital copy of this newsletter BACK COVER: ECU students and staff prepare for diving on the presumed Adriatic shipwreck, Sturgeon Bay, can be viewed on-line at http://www.ecu. WI. (Photo: Brad Rodgers) edu/maritime/publications. 1,500 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $3174.00 or $2.116 per copy. ASC-000924 (11/13) 2013 – 2014 e a s t c a r o l i n a u n i v e r s i t y 2 Stem to Stern • From From the the Quarterdeck: Quarterdeck: It has been a year of contrast within Maritime Studies 67%, and Anthropology has diminished. The response to this the program as recruitment, project 33%) are acquiring their credentials and economic stagnation from our graduates activity, and logistical planning increased moving into the work force in larger has been remarkable, both in scope and in despite the fact that it was carried out in numbers than any other university. In ingenuity. Entrepreneurial graduates have the shadow of nearly universal economic simple RPA application numbers, our begun forming not-for-profit corporations doldrums, and continued state operational program alone would be second in the in order to establish work through their budget cuts. Major projects took us far country! archaeological training and expertise. afield enjoining state and federal agencies Additional good news for the program The PAST foundation, established by in major shared field efforts such as those comes from our recent hiring of Dr. Dr. Annalies Corbin, and the Maritime conducted on the Outer Banks and Great Jennifer McKinnon. Jennifer comes to us Heritage Minnesota organization, Lakes. The economy has simply forced us from Flinders University where she was a established by Dr. Ann Merriman and to grow leaner and more efficient while it Senior Lecturer with experience working Chrisotopher Olson, MA, are prospering more than ever emphasized our continued in the Pacific on WWII sites, as well as in beyond what anyone would have imagined, reliance on partnerships with external the U.S. and Australia studying landscape and they will be joined in the near future agencies to share costs. Projects conducted and seascape archaeology. Jennifer’s by more NPOs. These corporations are in conjunction with NOAA’s Marine interests and talents will dovetail nicely able to garner grants, project contracts, and Sanctuary in Thunder Bay Michigan, the with that of Calvin Mires, MA, and Dr. memberships to fulfill their archaeological Wisconsin State Historical Society, the Nathan Richards in the area of heritage and educational goals (see article by Ann Michigan Historical Society, RPM, and the tourism: the potential of archaeology to Merriman). The success of these NPOs is UNC system’s Coastal Studies Institute draw practical economic benefits to a an unsung and unpublicized professional on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, have region (see “A New Face in Eller”). path with which our faculty and graduates made us extremely efficient in resource In other news, Dr. Lynn Harris has are becoming increasingly familiar. Not- use. Our state and federal friends allow been promoted to Associate Professor for-profits have become another pathway us access to sites and equipment, but with tenure, joining Dr. David Stewart who toward fulfilling an archaeological career perhaps more importantly share their received his promotion and tenure just two pioneered through the gumption, hard professional expertise and knowledge years previously. Dr. Harris’s book Patroons work, and ingenuity of our alumni. with our students. This field knowledge and Periaguers will soon join Dr. Stewart’s These days, a broad perspective is impossible to duplicate within a normal work, The Sea Their Graves (2011), as the reveals that the trajectory and progress of academic setting and our students benefit latest single-author books produced by the the program since its inception continues. tremendously when given the opportunity program, while Richards and Sami Seebs’ The quality of students and faculty to absorb a professional archaeologist’s anthology, The Archaeology of Watercraft continues to increase while the scope of working knowledge. Our side of the Abandonment (2013), expand an already our projects also increases. It would have bargain includes sharing our data, data extensive list of three dozen or more been unthinkable in labor and equipment collection techniques, and analysis with books and untold site reports and articles for us to run simultaneous summer field these agencies, while also giving them produced by Maritime Program faculty school projects only one decade ago, yet labor and equipment reserves, all necessary over the years. Thunder Bay and Sturgeon Bay were measures to take on these major projects. In retrospect, however, I would not be made fairly routine. It is easy for me to see Student aid in the form of Graduate telling the truth if I claimed the last five this through the hindsight of the entire Assistantships and Scholarships are still years of slowed economic activity have had program’s history, although some of the robust and our 2012 class is the second no effect on archaeological and associated hoped-for administrative changes such as largest in program history at 18. According job markets. Yet our graduates continue the PhD program have been delayed. I have to the latest Society for American to dominate federal and state cultural no doubt they will inevitably still come to Archaeology article concerning the resource agencies as well as contract and pass.
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