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John Steinberg and Joe Bagley at the Fowler-Clark Epstein Farm kick off event.
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Mayor Martin J. Walsh speaking at the kick off event.
Joe Bagley, the Boston City archaeologist and I were at the kick off for a campaign to raise more than $1 million to restore the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm at 487 Norfolk St in Mattapan. There was a nice article about the kick off in the Globe by Cristela Guerra. The Mayor was also there. You can read more about the project, the partners, and the event on Historic Boston’s website.
In preparation for Urban Farming, the Fiske Center had done a geophysical survey and a few shovel test pits at the property. You can read a summery of the archaeological work on Historic Boston’s blog. The full report can be downloaded from the Research page of the Fiske Center’s website.
Dr. John Steinberg has been a Research Scientist at the Fiske Center since 2006. He received his PhD in Anthropology from UCLA in 1997. Before coming to UMass Boston, John taught at UCLA and California State University Northridge. He is interested in the economic problems of colonization, both in New England and across the North Atlantic. He uses GIS and shallow geophysics to study settlement patterns to understand broad trends over the landscape. In addition to John's New England work, he has been studying the settlement patterns of Viking Age Iceland. John is the director of the Digital Archaeology Laboratory at the Fiske Center.