[amc] Greetings
- From: Steve Friesen <Friesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:54:23 +0300
Hello, all,
It's Sunday morning in Corinth. I just read an email on the AMC list and it
reminded me that I miss you all. We tried a few times last October to visit
the local Orthodox Church here in Corinth but never could quite hit the time
right. Seems like the liturgy goes on pretty early. As it happens, the
building we're staying in this year has a clear shot to the church's
loudspeaker so the chanting is wafting in the window as I type. Kind of
like spiritual take-out :-)
You can catch up on a lot of what's going on with us on Janie's blog.
http://jfriesen.edublogs.org/
On my side of things, I've been pretty consumed with trying to figure out
this excavating thing. I'm working with a guy who's done it a lot, so I'm
not screwing up any potential finds or anything (at least I think I'm not).
But there's a lot to learn: soil gradations, documenting what's there before
you destroy it, types of pottery. The pottery's quite a challenge. You
find lots of fragments in any given day, usually at least a hundred and
maybe more. Then a specialist has to figure out what they are in broad
terms to tell you what time period the pottery comes from so you know what
you're digging in. The pottery sherds are like misc. pieces of jigsaw
puzzles, except you don't know how many puzzles you have pieces from and
have to figure out what the puzzle pictures were.
Had a nice time last night. Some friends drove us to a restaurant by the
bay, right at the mouth of the Corinth canal. Had a nice leisurely dinner
while watching several ships go through. Weather was perfect, company
great, food okay... Went across the street to an ice cream place to watch
the last 20 minutes of the USA-Italy game on an outdoor big-screen set up.
Shalom,
Steve
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