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Thursday, June 2, 2011

To Bar Harbor!

Last weekend we closed up shop, packed up the Black Knight, and drove two hours to the coast. Taking rural highways across central Maine is incredibly similar to Wyoming considering the large number of muddy trucks, trucks sawed in half next to houses, and wandering barnyard animals we encountered. After too much deja vu we entered Acadia National Park and finally Bar Harbor.

Though we had only been at the shelter for five days, it was nice to get away from the mosquitos and black flies for a bit. By the way, current (and somewhat embarrassing bug count is):

Rebecca: 79
Matt: 39

Our weekend in Bar Harbor mainly revolved around food. Day 1 was clam themed with gigantic portions of steamed and fried local clams. Day 2 was lobster day with some fasting and then a dinner feast of boiled lobster.





The rest of the weekend was spent driving around foggy Acadia, sipping tea in the lodge, and checking out the archaeology exhibits at the Abbe Museum. The Abbe Museum is a local non-profit organization that sponsors excavations, field schools, and acts as a state artifact repository and lab. They seem to be doing an awesome job and offer a great example for other museums to follow. It would be really neat for local communities to retain, preserve, and display artifacts from nearby sites rather than ship them off to far away basements.





On the drive home we found paradise. A cross between pit bbq and lobster pound! We got some hickory smoked mussels which were out of this world!




We are currently in prep mode for Rebecca and Dr. Sanger's upcoming talk on Saturday night! The crazy tornadic storms that ripped through here yesterday have saturated the ground making any survey work unpleasant for a day or so. However, once the area dries up a bit we will launch back to work investigating the potential for new sites and scratching our heads over some curious stone structures on the property. Stay tuned!

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