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Contributors to This Issue
John Austen, project manager in the Defense Logistics Agency, has a history degree from Virginia Tech. He is a long-standing member of (and reviewer for) SIA, the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills, the Blacksmith's Guild of the Potomac, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, and many other organizations concerned with the history of technology.
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David W. Babson, a free-lance archaeologist working in central Illinois, has extensive experience in plantation archaeology, the archaeology of farming and farmsteads, and urban archaeology. He approaches railroad history as a person with a strong interest in history and as one who would like to see it interpreted in greater detail for general audiences.
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Pauline Desjardins has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Montreal, and her dissertation focused on the spatial evolution of the Lachine Canal corridor. She has since carried out a number of archaeological projects on the Lachine Canal for Parks Canada and served as chief archaeologist for the Society of the Old Port of Montreal.
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Yvon Desloges has a PhD in History from Laval University (Québec City) and has authored several books and articles in urban, military, and industrial history. He has been a professional historian with Parks Canada for around 30 years.
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Alain Gelly, a historian with Parks Canada who has been studying the Lachine Canal for several years, is completing a PhD in History at Laval University (Québec City). His dissertation focuses on the use of motive power by the industrial establishments of the Lachine Canal corridor.
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Keith R. Long, who has published recently on the history of mine waste disposal in the Coeur d'Alene mining region of northern Idaho, is a mineral economist and geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Tucson, Arizona. A graduate of the mineral economics department at the University of Arizona and the geology departments of the University of Michigan and the University of California, Santa Cruz, he is currently investigating the history of copper mining technology in the Southwest.
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Martha Mayer has managed or participated in remedial site investigations at former industrial facilities, chiefly manufactured gas plants, for the past 10 years. Recently, she has been involved with research and walking tours of the sites for three water-powered mills in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
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Karen Metheny is a research fellow with the Department of Archaeology, Boston University. She is co-editor of the volume Landscape Archaeology: Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape and is awaiting publication of her first book, From the Miners' Doublehouse: Archaeology and Landscape in a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town.
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Lance E. Metz, the historian for the National Canal Museum of Easton, Pennsylvania, has served on the Board of SIA and both the Pennsylvania and American canal societies. He has co-authored a number of books on topics of transportation and industrial history as well as numerous articles in regional historical journals. Among his other duties is his role as the editor of the Canal History and Technology Press.
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Bode Morin, manager for restoration and redevelopment at Historic Fort Wayne in Detroit, is past curator of Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark and a graduate of the industrial archaeology program at Michigan Technological University. He sits on the SIA Board of Directors and is on the Planning Committee for the 2005 Fall Tour in Detroit.
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Elizabeth Norris graduated from the industrial archaeology program at Michigan Technological University in 2002 and is continuing her studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is still working with Michigan Tech and Scenic Hudson, Inc., at the West Point Foundry site in Cold Spring, New York, doing research for her dissertation on the Village of Cold Spring.
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Vance Packard, one of the founders of SIA in 1971, has worked for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission since 1968 and is currently director of the Anthracite Museum Complex that includes Eckley Miners Village, the Museum of Anthracite Mining, the Anthracite Heritage Museum, and the Scranton Iron Furnace.
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Terry S. Reynolds, professor of history at Michigan Technological University, is author of Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel and Sault Ste. Marie (a history of one of the pioneer, large-scale hydroelectric plants). He previously edited a special issue of IA on "Hydraulic and Hydroelectric Technology in the American West" (22, no. 1, 1996).
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Susan M. Ross is an architect specializing in heritage conservation with the federal department of Public Works of the Canadian government. She holds an MSc in planning (conservation of the built environment) from the University of Montreal. Her thesis was entitled "Pure Water in the City: Covering the Reservoirs on Mount Royal."
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| David A. Vago is a master's candidate in industrial archaeology at Michigan Technological University. His background is in architecture and historic railway preservation; he worked at the Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah and the Cass Scenic Railroad in West Virginia before starting his degree. Currently he is preparing a comprehensive interpretive plan for the site of Calumet and Hecla's copper stamp mill in Lake Linden, Michigan, on behalf of the Houghton County Historical Society. |
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