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Contributors to This Issue
John Austen got his history degree at Virginia Tech, decades before the shootings. He works just past the downstream end of the Potomac Canal, and every day he passes buildings made of the same red Seneca Creek sandstone used in the canal locks.
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James Douet, a consultant industrial archaeologist, trained at the Ironbridge Institute in England in 1986. Based in Spain, since 1996, he edits the TICCIH Bulletin and carries out site documentation, inventories, and museum projects, of which the Asland cement factory was the first.
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Mark Finlay is a professor of history at Armstrong Atlantic State University. His book Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security will be published by Rutgers University Press in spring 2009.
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Thomas X. Grasso retired in 1999 as geosciences department chair at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. President of the Canal Society of New York State since 1978 and of Inland Waterways International (2002–07), he is also a commissioner on the NPS Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission.
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Dennis E. Howe holds electrical engineering degrees from Lowell (Massachusetts) Technological Institute and is employed as an industrial archaeologist by Victoria Bunker, Inc., a New England archaeology and cultural resources management firm. He has published extensively on industrial history and sites.
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Angelina Long spent three years working in rolling-stock restoration and taking machine-tool technology courses. Currently a PhD student in Georgia Tech's School of History, Technology, and Society, she is researching international collaboration in space and the Cold War aerospace industry.
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Martha Mayer completed a 30-year career in environmental studies split between marine ecology and hazardous waste site investigations. More recently, she has completed small IA studies, prepared public exhibits, and conducted walking tours of former mill sites in current suburban settings.
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John P. McCarthy manages cultural resources services for the Charleston area office of S&ME, Inc. He has long been interested in the history of industrialization and the working people of Pennsylvania's coal region.
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Douglas C. McVarish, principal architectural historian at John Milner Associates, Inc., Philadelphia, has a long-time avocational interest in covered bridges nurtured by graduate study at the University of Vermont. He is the author of the forthcoming Field Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of the United States.
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Lance E. Metz, historian for the National Canal Museum of Easton, Pennsylvania, has served on the SIA Board and both the Pennsylvania and American Canal Societies. He has co-authored books on topics of transportation and industrial history as well as articles in regional historical journals. Among other duties, he is editor of the Canal History and Technology Press.
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Loren H. Michael, of Silver Spring, Maryland, has conducted archival and field research in South Asia on multipurpose dam building in British-ruled South India and presented his key findings at the 2007 SIA meeting: "Hydropower in Imperial India: The Kaveri Transboundary Watershed."
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Larry Mishkar, a freelance archaeologist and photographer in the Pacific Northwest and an active member of SIA, contributes articles and photographs to the newsletter. He is currently writing on Alaska railroad bridges and Arctic industrial railways.
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Colleen Reynolds, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, is a PhD candidate in American history with an emphasis in the American West and historical archaeology at the University of Idaho-Moscow. She attended Michigan Technological University's industrial archaeology field school at the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, New York, in summer 2007.
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Amy S. Roache, PhD candidate in anthropology at Syracuse University, focuses her research primarily on 18th-century blacksmithing practices on the fur trade frontier in northern Michigan.
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| Thomas J. Vaughan, Jr., is a professional engineer whose background includes the design of power plants. He has been a member of the Southern New England chapter of SIA for more than a decade. |
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