June 9, 2012
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We’ve had some interesting developments at Hass Woods this week! If you recall from last week, we set out to find two possible features outside of the house foundation at the Sarah Boston Site: the drain, and the barn. Josh … Continue reading
June 7, 2012
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Today I was able to take a day off from Hassanamesit Woods field school to attend the annual NAISA (Native American and Indigenous Studies Association) Meetings in Uncasville, CT. I was there to see a round-table discussion organized by Nipmuc … Continue reading
June 1, 2012 by Fiske Center | 5 Comments
Check out this 3D model of 2 of the units inside the Sarah Boston cellar feature! This is only a test; we are still learning the program and fine tuning our photography techniques. We hope to complete a similar model of the entire foundation by the end of field school, fingers crossed!
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by Heather Law Pezzarossi
May 30, 2012
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We had a great day at the Sarah Boston Site in Hassanamesit Woods today! After a morning spent cleaning up the debris left from Hurricane Irene and clearing back some of the winter’s leaf litter, we were able to get … Continue reading
May 29, 2012
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Welcome everyone, to another exciting field season at Hassanamesit Woods! My name is Heather Law Pezzarossi, I’m a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley and a graduate of UMASS’s Master’s Program in Historical Archaeology (2008). I’m currently writing … Continue reading
June 30, 2011
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While we’ve expanded our goals this year to include an investigation of the surrounding landscape, we continue to excavate the Sarah Boston cellar feature in the hopes of finally understanding the shape, dimensions, and other attributes of the house. These … Continue reading
June 30, 2011
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This Monday we were happy to welcome several members of the Nipmuc Nation to the Sarah Boston Site. Archaeologist and Nipmuc Historic Preservation Officer, Rae Gould, brought the group out to the site to see the Sarah Boston cellar feature … Continue reading
June 23, 2011
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Today was a rain day, so we spent our time back at the lab processing the soil samples we collected to test phosphate levels in the soils from Sarah Boston’s houseplot, her pasture, and the Swago parcel. Students learned the … Continue reading
June 20, 2011
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The Fiske Center’s Dr. Heather Trigg explains some of the field and lab methods we’ve employed to better understand the 18th and 19th century Nipmuc landscape in Hassanamesit Woods: “One of the goals of the Hassanamesit Woods Archaeological project is … Continue reading
June 13, 2011
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Hi everyone! For the past few days we’ve been settling into our work routine at the Sarah Boston Farmstead Site. Sarah Boston was a well known Nipmuc woman who lived on Keith Hill in Grafton in the late 18th and … Continue reading