Our second volume of "Occasional Papers" has been printed!Following dinner, VP David Johnson introduced our officers and trustees in attendance in addition to offering a few words of wisdom.
Trustee Fred Assmus then introduced several visiting dignitaries and the evening's speaker: Dr. David Oestreicher.
Dr. Oestreicher related his fascinating history as how he became involved in the study of the Lenape, who inhabited our region at the time the modern European explorers reached the East Coast.
Pictured here, dedicating a reconstructed Lenape village in Pound Ridge, NY, is "Touching Leaves Woman," among the last fluent speakers of the Umami dialect to have been raised in the traditions and practices of her ancestors. Dr. Oestreicher had the privilege of studying with her as he learned the Lenape language and traditional cultures in the 1970's.
Dr. Oestreicher closed with a very touching "Touching Leaves Woman" quote from "The Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage" by Herb Kraft.
Many thanks to Chuck Tudor and Sharon Assmus for organizing such an excellent evening!
The 21st Annual Highlands Archaeological Conference held on Saturday, October 27, 2007 at the Lautenburg Visitor Center, Sterling Forest State Park began with a preview tour led by Ranger Doc Bayne of the “Iron Trail” that visited the ruins of the various Sterling Iron Works that operated from about 1794 through 1923.
“The Great Algonkian Flint Mines at Coxsackie, NY, A photographic visit to one of the most important Indian localities within New York State” by IOCCNYSA member, Eric X. Dratch led off the afternoon’s formal session. Since Eric was called away on business, Ray Decker assisted by Clif Patrick presented Eric’s paper.
IOCCNYSA chapter President, Kevin Storms closed the conference with his excellent: “Drawing on the Past.”
Dinner reservations sent by check to Ray Decker MUST arrive before November 5th!
Call Chuck Tudor at 845-562-9395 or Sharon Assmus at 845-343-1671 for dinner reservations, if you miss the above deadline.
Tickets for the dinner are $38.00 each and your payment should arrive before Nov. 5, 2007 to: IOCCNYSAA
C/o Harold R. Decker
60 Decker Drive, RD 4
Middletown, New York 10940
Please indicate which entree you would like:
Chicken Piccatta Prime Rib of Beef
Filet of Salmon with Fine Herbs Vegetarian Meal on Request
For more information please call: Chuck Tudor at 845-562-9395 or Sharon Assmus at 845-343-1671. Lecture is free & open to the public starting at 8:45 PM
At our October meeting Tom Lake, Archaeologist with City/Scape: Cultural Resource Consultants, gave an very interesting briefing on his prehistoric findings at the future site of the Orange Regional Medical Center Site, off East Main Street in Middletown. They investigated the areas of the site that will be disturbed by the construction. Finding no habitation sites, the artifacts recovered, which included 49 points, mostly date from the 4,800 to 3,700 year before present period. The findings suggest that the site was used mostly for hunting/gathering and apparent tool repair, with indications that the people likely visited the studied site for periods of hours but not much longer.
He also enlightened as the conflicting pressures in Cultural Resource archaeology versus academic archeology and differenting priorities of archaeology versus paleontology studies.
At 8:30 pm, following the regular monthly IOCNYSAA meeting:
Tom Lake, Archaeologist with City/Scape: Cultural Resource Consultants will reoprt on the “Preliminary Prehistoric Findings at the Orange Regional Medical Center Site” (OPRHP 06PR04643) in the Town of Wallkill, Orange County, New York
Tom Lake is an archaeologist and has been a member of the NYSAA since 1994. He teaches anthropology at SUNY Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, including the Prehistory of the Hudson Valley. He also works for the NYSDEC’s Hudson River Estuary Program as its Estuary Naturalist, where he conducts research, education, and edits the Hudson River Almanac, a natural history journal now in its 14th year. He received his B.A. at the State University of New York at New Paltz and did his graduate study at the State University of New York at Albany.
The monthly the Incorporated Orange County Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association meeting Friday evenings at 7:30 pm in the community room of the Goshen Methodist Church, 115 Main St, Goshen, NY 10924. Please enter by the side door on Court Lane. The community room is one flight up and to your right.
Goshen United Methodist Church
(845) 291-3943
115 Main St
Goshen, NY 10924
The public is invited to attend.
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