Cultural Resources in Lake Champlain: Commercial, Recreational or Archaeological Resources?

Join Todd Hannahs, adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at UVM for this Research in Progress Seminar #139. This talk will be televised at a later date on RETN, Cable Channels 9 and 16.

Make Your Own Atlatl

Learn how to make your own atlatl (spear-thrower) and three darts using primitive technology including flintknapping and cordage making. Taught by Robert Berg of Thunderbird Atlatl. $50 includes all materials. Pre-registration is required.

Where & When: Chimney Point State Historic Site, junction of Routes 17 and 125, by the Champlain Bridge, Addison. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Information/Registration: (802) 759-2412
Sponsored by: Chimney Point State Historic Site

Guided Hike, Dix Hill Area, Ludlow

Al Ransom, Crown Point Road Association historian, will lead a guided hike exploring part of the early route of the Crown Point Road.

Where & When: Meet at Tyson Church on Route 100, Ludlow, at 10:30 a.m. Please bring a lunch.
Information: (802) 773-6819
Sponsored by: Crown Point Road Association

Northeastern Open Atlatl Championships

Fourth annual adult and youth atlatl (spear-throwing) contests for accuracy, distance and weapon style. Demonstrations throughout the day of early Native American skills and crafts. Kids’ Archaeology Corner and workshops for all ages. Join in a game of chunkey. $2 adults, children free.

Walking Back in Time: The West Bolton History Trail

Take a self-guided walking tour of farmsteads, homes and other sites abandoned when the Ethan Allen Firing Range was established.

Ann Story Historic Tour

Visit the Story cabin, farm, and Farmingdale Cemetery. Learn how this feisty frontier woman and her small children survived Indian raids and abuse from Loyalists during the War of Independence. Presented by Diane Benware, Salisbury teacher and historian.

Where & When: Meet at Salisbury Congregational Church, Salisbury village, ½ mile east of Rt. 7 on West Salisbury Road at 1:00 p.m.
Information: (802) 352-6672
Sponsored by: Salisbury Historical Society

Guided Tour, Remains of Abandoned North Winhall

Vic Rolando will lead a 1½ to 2-hour tour of industrial and domestic remains of the abandoned village of North Winhall.

Historic Marsh District Tour

This guided tour will include a visit to the Wetherbee Cemetery, the Hosley cellar hole, the old Filley Farm and grave sites, a beaver dam, the site of the District #9 school and an early mill site. Presented by Edith Hunter & Willis Wood of the Weathersfield Historical Society.

Kids’ Archaeology Day at Mount Independence

Celebrate Vermont Archaeology Week with hands-on activities. Archaeological materials from the Mount Independence site will be featured and participants can make their own colonial artifact. Cost: $2 for adults (admission to site), children 15 and under free.

Reading the Forested Landscape

Tom Wessels, author and forest ecologist on the faculty of Antioch New England, will discuss how to “read” the landscape using evidence left by past activities. Cost is $3; please pre-register.

Where & When: Ferrisburgh Central School, Little Chicago Road, Ferrisburgh. 1:00 p.m.
Information/Registration: (802) 877-3406
Sponsored by: Rokeby Museum

Archaeological Heritage of Vermont

This workshop is provided to approximately 350 Addison County sixth graders. Archaeologists will teach the value of identifying, protecting and interpret-ing Vermont’s rich and varied archaeological heritage.

Where & When: Addison County Fair Grounds, New Haven. 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Free for Addison County sixth graders: participation organized through classrooms. Rain date Sept. 28.
Information: (802) 388-6746 ext. 26
Sponsored by: Otter Creek Natural Resources Conservation District

Settlement, Organization and Land Use at the Silk Road and Cloverleaf Sites along the Walloomsac River in Bennington

Belinda Cox, Field Director for the University of Maine at Farmington’s Archaeology Research Center, will present a slide show and lecture about important Native American sites.

Where & When: Bennington Free Library, 101 Silver Street, Bennington. 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Information: (207) 778-7012
Sponsored by: Vermont Agency of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration

What We’ve Learned from the Past; The Early People of the Past

Explore the history of the area starting with the earliest inhabitants, with Earl Bessette and Langdon Smith.

Where & When: Beeman Academy Library, North Street, New Haven (in back of the school). 7:00 p.m.
Information: (802) 453-3947, (802) 453-3296
Sponsored by: New Haven Historical Society

Bridges of the White River: 1848-Present

Richard Corey, Field Director at the University of Maine’s Archaeology Research Center, will present slides and give a talk.

Early Native American Settlement in Williston

Peter Thomas of the University of Vermont’s Consulting Archaeology Program will share important discoveries made at VT-CH-197, an early prehistoric site located in the path of the Chittenden County Circumferential Highway in Williston.

Farms of Yesteryear - the Archaeology of 19th Century Agriculture

Join Matt Lesniak, Project Director for Hartgen Archaeological Associates, for a talk, slides, and an opportunity for questions and discussion.

Population Crashes: the Archaeological Record

This year, the earth’s human population will exceed six billion. Are we headed for a population crash? Archaeological investigations have shown population crashes occurred in the past. Join Gordon Cawood of the Vermont Archaeological Society to consider the issue.

Where & When: Montshire Museum, Norwich, I91 Exit 13 to Montshire Road. 7:30 p.m.
Information: (802) 649-5168, (802) 649-2200
Sponsored by: Vermont Population Alliance (VPA)

Valcour Island, Benedict Arnold, and the Discovery of a Missing Gun Boat

This year’s Vermont’s Greatest Archaeological Discoveries lecture features Art Cohn, underwater archaeologist and executive director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.

Where & When: Pavilion Building Auditorium, 109 State Street, Montpelier. Please enter on the Governor Davis Avenue side of the building. 7:30 p.m.
Information: (802) 828-3050
Sponsored by: Vermont Historical Society and the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation

A Bridge to Historic Lewiston: Archaeological Investigations at the Lewis Farmhouse

This will be a slide presentation by Geraldine Baldwin, Project Director for the University of Maine at Farmington’s Archaeology Research Center.

Where & When: Marion Cross Elementary School Multi-Purpose Room. 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Information: (207) 778-7012
Sponsored by: New Hampshire Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration

The Long Trail as a Corridor Through Time

This year’s Green Mountain Club’s “Teacher Workshop” will focus on how historic archaeological remains within the Long Trail corridor can be vehicles for learning about history, land use, ecosystems, and other curriculum-related topics. Please pre-register.

Where & When:Location TBA, Wallingford area.
Information/Registration: (802) 244-7037 ext. 23
Sponsored by: GMC and the Green Mountain National Forest

Ashbel Goodenough Blacksmith Shop Excavation Tour and Exhibit

See how an archaeological site supports the written record and humanizes the people who worked there. Presented by Richard Hovey & Dina Danielson of the Peacham Historical Association.

Indians and Archaeologists

Join Frederick Wiseman, Director of the Abenaki Tribal Museum and Cultural Center, for a slide talk.

Where & When: Abenaki Tribal Museum, 100 Grand Avenue, Swanton. 7:00 p.m.
Information: (802) 868-2559
Sponsored by: Abenaki Tribal Museum and the Vermont Council on the Humanities

Making Tools: A Flintknapping Demonstration

Andrew Lee will show how stone tools were made.

Where & When: Abenaki Tribal Museum, 100 Grand Avenue, Swanton. 7:00 p.m.
Information: (802) 868-2559
Sponsored by: Abenaki Tribal Museum and Cultural Center

Lake Dunmore’s Newton & Thompson Sucker Brook Sawmill

From 1864, the Newton & Thompson Sucker Brook Sawmill was the main center of industrial activity on the east side of Lake Dunmore. This program will include a presentation on the history of the mill and an optional walking tour to the site of the boarding house and wood slide which supported the mill (½ mile up the mountain). Presented by Bill Powers, Lake Dunmore resident and author of the forthcoming History of Silver Lake, Leicester, Vermont.

Miller’s Run School Archaeology Exhibit and Sheffield Historical Society Tour

Visit an archaeology exhibit at Miller’s Run School, then join area craftspeople and musicians at the Old Meeting House.

Where & When: Miller’s Run School, Route 122, Sheffield, 10:00-11:00 a.m. Old Meeting House, Sheffield, 11:00 a.m.
Information: (802) 626-5735
Sponsored by: Sheffield Historical Society

Stone Farm Cemetery Rehab and Apple Tree Release Project

This is a National Public Lands Day event. Help cut brush, paint fences and stabilize the remains of the 19th century Stone family farm and cemetery. Supervised by David Lacy, Archaeologist, & Ed Toth, Wildlife Biologist, Green Mountain National Forest. Please pre-register: (802) 747-6719.

Guided Tour, Remains of North Dorset Ironworks and Blast Furnace Ruin

Vic Rolando will lead a 1 to 1½-hour tour of remains of mills and ironworks.

First UVM Intertribal Powwow

Dancing will be performed by the W’Abenaki Dancers. The Host Drum will be the Four Winds Singers. Native American arts and crafts and Native American food will be available throughout the weekend. Entrance fee undetermined at print date-around $5.

Where & When: UVM Patrick Gymnasium, Spear Street, Burlington. 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Grand entry of dancers is at noon each day.
Information: (802) 656-8818
Sponsored by: University of Vermont’s Center for Cultural Pluralism, ALANA Studies, Anthropology Department and Anthropology Club.

Guided Tour, Remains of Charcoal Kilns along the Long Trail, Mount Tabor

Vic Rolando will lead a 1½ to 2-hour tour of charcoal remains along the Long Trail in Mount Tabor.

Archaeology for the Alburg-Swanton Route 78 Bridge Replacement

Peter Thomas of the Consulting Archaeology Program at the University of Vermont will present a slide lecture about recent archaeological investigations conducted in Alburg near the Lake Champlain causeway.

Where & When: Swanton Public Library, Grand Avenue, Swanton. 7:30 p.m.
Information: (802) 868-3892
Sponsored by: Alburg and Swanton Historical Societies

Remember Me as You Pass By

This is a USDA/Forest Service Passport in Time week-long volunteer project. A crew of volunteers will locate, assess, inventory and do light maintenance on abandoned historic family cemetery plots located in Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest. The application for this PIT program was in the spring, but to participate in next year’s event please contact:

Reflections on Remembering and Forgetting: Revisiting The Original Vermonters

This conference will explore new research and new directions for collaboration in Abenaki studies. Topics include: Archaeology and Aboriginal Ethnicity, Material Culture and Memory, Wabanaki Women - Life Histories, and Eugenics and Other Forms of Strategic Forgetting.

From the Iron Age to the Electric Age: Hydro-mechanical and Hydroelectric Development on the New Haven River

Since Euroamerican settlers first arrived in the state more than two centuries ago, Vermont’s rivers have been an important energy source. This talk will examine one archaeological site in Bristol and discuss its use first as a foundry and plow works and later as a hydroelectric generating station.

Where & When: TBA
Information: (973) 678-1960
Sponsored by: The Cultural Resource Group of Louis Berger & Associates

One Hundred Fifty Years of Waterpower: An Industrial History of the Village of Derby Center

During much of the 19th century, Derby Center was home to a cluster of small-scale waterpowered industries, a development that resembled a modern industrial park. This talk will discuss the history and archaeology of Hinman-Kelley sawmill and its neighbors along the Clyde River.

Where & When: TBA
Information: (973) 678-1960
Sponsored by: The Cultural Resource Group of Louis Berger & Associates

Vermont Archaeological Society Fall Meeting