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Contributors to This Issue
John Austen, a 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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Robert C. Chidester, a graduate student in the Master of Applied Anthropology program at the University of Maryland-College Park, is currently working on a project to promote labor heritage through archaeology in Maryland, bringing labor organizations into the preservation process. Besides labor, his research interests are the military and public archaeology and archaeological theory.
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Ernest G. Farrier is a retired metallurgical engineer who has visited a number of historical iron-making sites.
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Todd Gilens is a landscape architect in San Francisco and member of the Samuel Knight chapter of the SIA.
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Ana M. Hayes-Perez curated "Treasures Underfoot: Quilts Inspired by Japanese Manhole Covers" and "Waste Not, Want Not: Recycled Works by Baltimore Artists" for the Baltimore Public Works Museum. She has a degree in history and art history from Towson University and is delighted by her unexpected but growing knowledge of garbage, sewage, manhole covers, and like subjects.
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Robert J. Kapsch, former chief of HABS/HAER, is a former member of the SIA Board of Directors. He is the author of numerous articles on canal construction as well as an illustrated history of American canals entitled Canals (2004).
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Lance E. Metz is the historian for the National Canal Museum of Easton, Pennsylvania. He 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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Vance Packard, Jr., one of the founders of SIA in 1971, worked for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and is the retired 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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Frederic L. Quivik is a consulting historian of technology living in St. Paul, Minnesota. His contracts are divided between preservation projects involving cultural resources having industrial or engineering character and legal cases related to the Superfund or related remediation of hazardous materials left at old industrial sites, especially those involving the processing of mineral resources. He recently completed a history of the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, California, for the Historic American Engineering Record, on the one hand, and, on the other, working as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice, he wrote a report on the history of operations at the vermiculite mine and mill at the center of the Superfund cleanup at Libby, Montana.
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Matthew W. Roth is an odologist (someone with an interest in roads) whose most recent publication is "Whittier Boulevard, Sixth Street Bridge, and the Origins of Transportation Exploitation in East Los Angeles," Journal of Urban History (2004).
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Alicia Valentino has an MS in Industrial Archaeology from Michigan Technological University and is currently working on a PhD in Archaeology at the University of Arkansas.
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William Vermes is a project engineer for the Cleveland, Ohio, firm of Euthenics, Inc., specializing in bridge rehabilitation and bridge inspection. He has presented papers regarding various bridge topics such as rehabilitation, aesthetics, and past bridge-design practices, and has coauthored a bridge tour guide, Cleveland's Historic Bridges: Architectural and Engineering Masterpieces.
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James R. Wettstaed, who has an MA in Anthropology from Wichita State University, has worked as an archaeologist with the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri since 1992; prior to that he worked with the Custer National Forest in southeastern Montana for four years.
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Paul J. White earned an MS in Industrial Archaeology at Michigan Technological University and is pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at Brown University. He has spent the last several years studying historic mining sites, working for the National Park Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. His dissertation research focuses on historic conflicts over water and resource rights between miners and Western Shoshone families in Death Valley, California.
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Joseph A. P. Wilson is a graduate of the Industrial Archaeology program at Michigan Technological University. He had previously earned degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and at Kent State University. He is currently teaching at Lander College in South Carolina.
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Donald S. Young is a retired metallurgist and production foreman. For more than three decades, he worked at the electric melt facilities of the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Bethlehem and Steelton plants. He is an active rail historian and mechanic and has served in various volunteer and paid capacities for steam tourist railroads in the Middle Atlantic states.
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