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Jun. 16th, 2013 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI'm doing more research today for the independent study I'm doing this summer. Did I mention that? I'm researching the history of the land that I'll be digging/working on during archaeological field school. That's pretty neat!
I've found a bunch of cool stuff. Today, I saved copies of the original surveyors' field notes from when he was surveying and marking off the township and range lines in the area in question. His name was Joshua Hathaway, and he was walking all over southeastern Wisconsin (among other places) in 1835 and making notes about what he found. That must have been a sometimes really interesting, if often repetitive and boring, job. And I'm grateful; though it's not as legible as might be hoped for, his hand-writing is a lot better than *some* 19th century scrawls that I've tried to interpret.
There's an archival collection of papers related to him that I want to request from Madison. Of course, since field school is starting and the archives aren't open on the weekends, I'm basically going to be unable to go through any archival sources for the next month. Good thing there's so much online and at local public libraries!
(I also just finally attached the rear LED light to my bicycle since I'm going to be relying on it so much this coming week. Its really nice to have a little box with all my little hand tools in it. Why didn't I do that years ago?)
I've found a bunch of cool stuff. Today, I saved copies of the original surveyors' field notes from when he was surveying and marking off the township and range lines in the area in question. His name was Joshua Hathaway, and he was walking all over southeastern Wisconsin (among other places) in 1835 and making notes about what he found. That must have been a sometimes really interesting, if often repetitive and boring, job. And I'm grateful; though it's not as legible as might be hoped for, his hand-writing is a lot better than *some* 19th century scrawls that I've tried to interpret.
There's an archival collection of papers related to him that I want to request from Madison. Of course, since field school is starting and the archives aren't open on the weekends, I'm basically going to be unable to go through any archival sources for the next month. Good thing there's so much online and at local public libraries!
(I also just finally attached the rear LED light to my bicycle since I'm going to be relying on it so much this coming week. Its really nice to have a little box with all my little hand tools in it. Why didn't I do that years ago?)
