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posted on Colonial Sense: 07/31/2010
Old Ship Unearthed in S. Kingstown
July 22, 2010, WPRI (RI) by Staff
Beach erosion at its best. Receding sand has revealed a piece of history just down the road from East Matunuck Beach.
Mother Nature has unearthed an old wooden ship that's been buried in the dunes for decades.
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posted on Colonial Sense: 07/31/2010 -- Followup
Canadian Archaeologists Hunt Long-Lost Arctic Explorers
July 21, 2010, BBC (UK) by Sian Griffiths
It has been more than 150 years since Capt Sir John Franklin and his 128 men perished in the Canadian Arctic, their ships lost in one of the greatest disasters of British polar exploration.
Now, a Canadian archaeological team is en route to the Arctic in a fresh hunt for Franklin's ships.
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posted on Colonial Sense: 07/30/2010
What the Colonists Might have Quaffed
July 21, 2010, The Washington Post by Greg Kitsock
Yards Brewing Co.'s Ales of the Revolution are beers with a history chaser. The Philadelphia microbrewery, which opened in 1995 in a building the size of a toolshed and now occupies a former skateboard rink, has attempted to replicate the brews our Colonial forefathers would have downed while talking sedition in wayside taverns.
General Washington's Tavern Porter takes its cue from a home-brew recipe, preserved in the New York Public Library, that Washington jotted down while he was serving in the Continental Army. It calls for fermenting a "small beer" from molasses, evidently a more common ingredient than barley in that era.
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posted on Colonial Sense: 07/30/2010
Abe Lincoln Doc Survived Donner Party Ordeal
July 20, 2010, Discovery News by Teresa Shipley
You might have thought there would be more than a few degrees of separation between President Abraham Lincoln and the infamous Donner Party, the group of pioneers who, legend says, was forced into cannibalism to survive a harsh winter crossing the Sierra Nevadas in the late 1840s. No direct evidence of that has ever been found, but that's neither here nor there for this post.
Because ... surprising new facts released yesterday show that, cannibalism or no, a member of the Donner Party carried documents containing Abraham Lincoln's signature and a short note all the way to California, despite months of starvation, snow and hardship.
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posted on Colonial Sense: 07/29/2010 -- Followup
18th-Century Boat to Leave World Trade Center in Pieces Monday
July 21, 2010, DNAInfo (NY) by Julie Shapiro
The 18th-century boat unearthed last week at the World Trade Center site is about to make its first journey in more than 200 years.
Starting on Monday, archaeologists will dismantle the ship’s crumbling wooden beams and move them to storage to study them further, said Steve Coleman, spokesman for the Port Authority.
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posted on Colonial Sense: 07/29/2010 -- Followup
Colonial-Era Shipwreck Moved to Hatteras Museum
July 20, 2010, The Virginian-Pilot by Jeff Hampton
After surviving perhaps 400 years in the sand and surf off the North Carolina coast, the 12-ton remains of a shipwreck are making their final port-of-call.
What could be the oldest wreck ever found on the North Carolina coast was loaded onto the back of a truck Monday for a 90-mile trip to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras.
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posted on Colonial Sense: 07/28/2010
Australia's Oldest Painting Prompts History Rethink
July 17, 2010, ABC News (AU) by Staff
Archaeologists say a rock painting in Arnhem Land is the nation's oldest dated picture showing Aboriginal people's first contact with the outside world.
The rock painting is a picture of a sailing boat and it is located at a remote shelter in north-west Arnhem Land.
Archaeologist Paul Tacon says there are telling signs it is a depiction of a Perahu - a boat popular in Indonesia and Malaysia around the 17th century.
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posted on Colonial Sense: 07/28/2010
Welsh Service for Martyred Saint John Roberts
July 17, 2010, BBC (UK) by Staff
Welsh has been spoken for the first time in a ceremony at Westminster Cathedral to honour the martyred saint John Roberts.
The monk, from Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1610 for being a Catholic dissenter.
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posted on Colonial Sense: 07/27/2010
George Washington's Whiskey For Sale?
July 16, 2010, ABC News by Cullen Dirner and Robin Gradison
Just 213 years after George Washington started distilling his rye whiskey, it has once again hit the market. A nearly 15-year process of research and archeology allowed historians at Mount Vernon to recreate the first president's whiskey recipe.
The distillery, just three miles from Mount Vernon outside of Alexandria, Va. opened for business after the Virginia General Assembly approved sales in small amounts, selling out all 471 bottles at $85 dollars a pop.
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posted on Colonial Sense: 07/27/2010
Montezuma Celebrates Church’s Anniversary, DeWitt Clinton’s Visit
July 14, 2010, The Post-Standard (NY) by Cheryl Longyear
The Montezuma Historical Society on Sunday will hold a program honoring the 185th anniversary of the Mentz Church’s first service.
...Ron Grube, professor of history at Cayuga Community College, will portray the Rev. Samuel Bibbens, of Weedsport, who helped organize the church and officiated at the first church in 1825. The program also will highlight another important celebration that took place that year with the opening the original Erie Canal. Gov. Dewitt Clinton traveled through Montezuma on his famous trip of the Marriage of the Waters down the Erie Canal.
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