I'm looking forward to hearing back from the Institute -- I think they're pretty tied up with a variety of things until November, when they think they'll be ready to catalog. Besides by then the ground starts getting hard around here ;)

It's fascinating, and I hope to keep involved. Maybe next year there will be another dig, too.

I hope the woman gets to keep her land, too. It's a really sad story - they condemned her house about five years ago but she was able to keep it. It was an old small house dating to the late 1700's or early 1800's. She had to go into the hospital in the spring, and while she was gone and unable to do anything, they (her town) demolished it. With everything inside. Everything. She had a lot of family history, heirlooms and keepsakes. About all that remains is the lawn furniture.

She's pursuing legal angles, but is on a fixed income, and while I have no idea how bad the house really was, it only threatened her. The foundation remains, and it looks stable. Right now she's living in a hotel. She can't afford to re-build, and really does not want to give up her land, not for this.

In my own town, there's an abandoned old house, three stories tall, about ready to topple onto a road. It's been sitting there like that for years.

I'm sure there are parts of the story I don't know, but sure as sitting here, this wasn't handled well.