Scratching the Surface: Seven Seasons at the Spencer-Pierce-Little Farm, Newbury, Massachusetts

Beaudry, Mary C.

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“…Since the 1983 California University of Pennsylvania symposium and Custer and Cunningham's 1986 volume Scholl's (1998) study of a Methodist Farm in Delaware. Of particular note is research conducted at the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm in Massachusetts which examined the transitions during four centuries of farming and highlighted the diversity of research questions that can be applied to farmstead sites (Beaudry 1995, Mascia 1996.…”

Section: The Archaeology Of Nineteenth-century Farmsteads In N Ortheamentioning

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We also acknowledge our colleagues who continued the momentum of the Altoona workshop by presenting papers on farmstead site research and preservation issues at CNEHA's 1998 annual meeting in Montreal. These papers served as the impetus for this special double issue of Northeast Historical Archaeology. This issue truly represents a team effort. The authors read and commented on each other's articles and highlighted linkS between the articles in their final manuscripts. In addition, five anonymous reviewers evaluated several of the articles and offered excellent comments. Two reviewers were kind enough to read the majority of the articles, and we appreciate their time and effort. We also offer thanks to Ann-Eliza Lewis for undertaking the enormous task of copy editing all of the revised articles. Finally, special thanks go to Mary Beaudry, former editor of Northeast Historical Archaeology, for initiating this project, and to David Landon, the current editor of Northeast Historical Archaeology, for making this volume become a reality.

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“…Archaeological evidence for differing types of meals held in the late 18th century and early 19th century was excavated nearly two decades ago from two sealed features at the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm in Newbury, Massachusetts, features on which I have published in considerable detail elsewhere, e.g., Beaudry (1995Beaudry ( , 1998, including in a previous issue of this journal. There has been ample time, then, for analysis and interpretation of the many lines of evidence; I discuss the results of faunal and botanical analyses, as well as the artifactual evidence, in two recent articles (Beaudry 2008(Beaudry , 2010a.…”

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Feasting on Broken Glass: Making a Meal of Seeds, Bones, and Sherds

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“…Mary Beaudry (1996) and John Worrell, Myron Stachiw, and David Simmons (1996: 39-40) have argued eloquently that history and culture intersect at the individual; hence construction of site biographies or ethnographies of everyday people and everyday life will lead to a "broader understanding of the human experience" (Be~udry 1996: 496). Moreover, these scholars offer us their own exemplary studies as models (see Beaudry 1995, for an introduction to the long term study of the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farmstead; Worrell, Stachiw, and Simmons 1996; for an application of this approach to the study of industrialization in the rural United States, see Mullins 1996).…”

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The Archaeology of Agriculture and Rural Life in Northern Delaware, 1800-1940

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2001

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I extend thanks first to Terry Klein, George Miller, and Sherene Baugher for inviting me to participate in the 1997 Council for Northeast historical Archaeology workshop and 1998 session on the archaeology of agricultural places. All who attended and contributed their voices to the dialogue have helped me refine and revise my own ideas about the purpose and practice of historical archaeology that extends well beyond the context of the 19th and earl 20th-century farm. Reviewers David Grettler and Leslie Stewart-Abernathy and editor Ann-Eliza Lewis encouraged me to clarify the murky points in my thinking and writing. My colleagues in Delaware historical archaeology have produced model studies of 19th and early 20th-century agricultural places that have challenged us all to ask new questions, collect new kinds of data, present our findings in new ways, and explore new practice, comparative analysis. For the fine work on the Buchanan/Moffett, Cazier, and Stump sites upon which I rely so heavily in this paper, I especially thank those projects' archaeologists, Wade Catts, Jay Custer, David Grettle, Angela Hoseth, Michael Scholl, and Rebecca Tinsman. Alice Guerrant, historical archaeologist for the Delaware State Historic Preservation Office, contributed an essential dosage of "management reality" during preparation of the state plan for historical archaeological resources and the historic contexts for an archaeology of 19th and 20th-century agriculture that I believe enrichd both documents. I thank the Delaware Department of Transportation, and archaeologist Kevin Cunningham, and the University of Delaware Center for Archaeological Research, and its Director, Jay Custer, for sponsoring the archaeological investigations of the Buchanan/Moffett, Cazier, and Stump sites, and for their assistance with and permission to reproduce images from the site reports. The University of Tennessee Press will publish expanded versions of discussions in this article; I thank the Press for granting permission to publish this material here. I concluded by reminding the reader that I alone am responsible for any errors of omission or commission in the interpretations presented here.This article is available in Northeast Historical Archaeology: http://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol31/iss1/8

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Scratching the Surface: Seven Seasons at the Spencer-Pierce-Little Farm, Newbury, Massachusetts

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