Fixing My Email Problem
About a year ago, I gave up entirely on “Inbox 0″. I found that I spent so much time trying to get my inbox to zero that I wasn’t spending my time doing things that mattered. So, I just stopped. At first, it was big relief. My new inbox zero was to make sure I ...
Day of Digital Humanities
Hi all….Just wanted to alert you that today is Day of Digital Humanities, when digital humanists around the globe highlight their daily activities on the interwebs. MSU is hosting the event this year, and I’ll be contributing a few posts during the day over on the collaborative blog they have put up. You can also ...
A St. Mary’s Run
These next two weeks I will be spending primarily in St. Mary’s City, trying to make a final push in the lab towards completing the analysis I need to do on the dissertation. This means long days in the lab, quick stops for dinner, and then back to the lab at night to look over ...
The Shaker Screen Video and FocusDesign Screens
A few years ago, while I was still the Campus Archaeologist with the MSU Campus Archaeology Program, Chris Stawski and I were messing around with a FlipVideo camera on a tiny project located behind the MSU library. We had always wanted to get more into using video for our public engagement, but the time and ...
A Session on Digital heritage and archaeology at SHA 2013 in Leicester
For this year’s Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, I am organizing a session called Digital Heritage and Archaeology: Applications of Web-based Technology for Community Engagement. The impetus for this session came from a number of directions. First, I was in the process of building a digital exhibit myself, and figured I’d have enough to contribute ...
New Posts at Walk Together Exhibit and Blog
A lot of my blog post efforts are being directed towards the new digital exhibit that I built with Historic St. Mary’s City, “All of Us Would Walk Together”. These posts are about the research that I’m currently undergoing, and will discuss historical research, archaeological analysis, and a variety of other things relating to the ...
It’s Fall, Y’all.
So, I put together a playlist inspired by the changing of the leaves, which is starting to happen here in Virginia. It will accompany me while I get started on my Colonial Williamsburg African American History and Culture Fellowship, which is letting me get through some of the resources the Rockefeller Library has on the ...
Some Travelin’ Music Please
This week will see me on the road twice: once Sunday coming back from St. Mary’s, and again tonight, heading back to St. Mary’s for a meeting and presentation. The trip is about three hours along Route 17 through the various peninsulas in eastern Virginia. I travel through a number of historic areas, in particular the historic ...
Shucking Oysters in Bushwood, Maryland
This weekend, Ashleigh and I spent the three days in Bushwood, Maryland, celebrating my cousin’s wedding. Bushwood is a small rural town located in St. Mary’s County’s seventh district. Which, if you’re from Southern Maryland, you know has a rich and unique culture. While my Aunt Lucy and Uncle Donald aren’t originally from the area, ...
The Launch of the Digital Exhibit, and Some Thank Yous
Today, Historic St. Mary’s City sent out the press release regarding the launch of the digital exhibit that I’ve been working on all summer…I then promptly sent emails, tweets, facebook posts, and telegrams to every person who I’ve ever interacted with. The website is officially live, and has been a labor of love for the ...
