Calvin Jones, Florida State Archaeologist
I graduated from Florida State University with an Honors BA in Anthropology. It was directly a result of Calvin Jones hiring me in the summer of 1972. An Honors degree has the same requirements of a Master’s degree or Doctorate: original research, a committee, a thesis/dissertation and a defense! I will publish my thesis in […]
The PaPER and the Poets Two
This is unsigned but there is no question in my mind it was written by Nanlee Haston. One of the few things of value out of the three times I was on Facebook was hearing from one of the young people who had been among my followers in those days of environmental activism. He told […]
The Birth of The PaPER
I was asked by local newspapers and magazines to write articles about the environment during those two years of activism, 1969-1970. The publisher of the underground newspaper in Miami, Strawberry Fields, Jerry (again, his last name is lost to my memory) approached me to do an entire issue on the environment. What an opportunity! I […]
The PAPER and the Poets
I (We) published one of the two underground newspapers in the 1960’s in Miami. I did this while working full time on the research team in the Everglades. My next post will tell the story of how it came to be. We lasted something longer than a year, and I recollect four issues (I believe […]
Building the Shark River Station 2
That same day I saw my first bald eagle, perched many tens of feet above the forest at the top of a very tall dead tree. We stopped, drifted, looked. Eventually we shook ourselves out of our reverie, started the motor and continued on our journey into the Heart of Darkness (apologies to Joseph Conrad). […]
Frank Sinatra and My Mother
While I was growing up there was a family lore that my Grandma Julia knew Frank Sinatra. When he became famous he asked her for the pictures she had taken of him as a young man back so they could not be used against him. I always had the sense he wanted them back so […]
Building the Shark River Station – Chapter 1
Some well meaning folks, when I was still on Facebook, said my posts were too long, people wouldn’t read them. Well, I write them as much if not more for myself than my “audience”. And the origination of the ones I am finally sharing here was that they were kind of intended as a book. […]
Patrick Geddes
I was a scholar. Some of my work did contribute to what we knew. But due to my academic career being cut short (as much my responsibility as others), much never saw the light of day. So I will be offering some of that work here. This was a 20-page holographic manuscript, and I thought […]
Gary Snyder and the Four Changes
Gary Snyder was an important Beat poet. He drafted and distributed this manifesto during the budding environmental movement of the late sixties. I have had it in my files since then. I have not seen it anywhere else since. I looked online to find it and could only find reference and availability of his expansion […]
The Englishman and The Close Call
Grandpa Sam Goldstein, Mom’s Father, was born in England on the way here. His family was from Rumania. I have his birth certificate. It is an official copy issued many years after he was born. He probably got it for the new social security system in the 1930’s. I know that’s when it was produced […]