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Something from the cellar, more of this & that : selected essays from the Colonial Williamsburg journal, by Ivor Noël Hume ; photography by David M. Doody ; additional photography by Tom Green ... [and others]

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Something from the cellar, more of this & that : selected essays from the Colonial Williamsburg journal, by Ivor Noël Hume ; photography by David M. Doody ; additional photography by Tom Green ... [and others]

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non fiction

Main title

Something from the cellar

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by Ivor Noël Hume ; photography by David M. Doody ; additional photography by Tom Green ... [and others]

Sub title

more of this & that : selected essays from the Colonial Williamsburg journal

Summary

Here are selected essays by Ivor Noël Hume, who headed Colonial Williamsburg's archaeological program for thirty years. In this eclectic collection from the pages of Colonial Williamsburg, the popular history journal, Noël Hume ventures beyond Williamsburg to such historic places as Jamestown in Virginia, the Fortress of Louisbourg in Canada, Plimouth Plantation in Massachusetts, Historic St. Mary's City and London Town in Maryland, Fort St. George in Maine, and Williamsboro in North Carolina

Table Of Contents

The great American incognitum, summer 2005 -- New discoveries at Martin's Hundred, summer 1997 -- Jamestown revisited, spring 2004 -- Message from Maine, winter 2000-2001 -- Plimoth and the rock of ages, summer 2001 -- St. Mary's city, autumn 2001 -- In search of lost towns, summer 2002 -- Louisbourg, autumn 2000 -- Williamsboro, April/May 1999 -- When tut when phut, or, The day Mr. Junior changed his mind, spring 2002 -- "Those halcyon days of yore", spring 1997 -- You're watching the colonial broadcasting system, june/July 1999 -- New messages in old bottles, summer 1998 -- Witchcraft and evil spirits, autumn 1998 -- Doctor Goodwin's ghosts, spring 2001 -- Sir Francis and the phantom chicken, winter 2002-2003 -- A window on Williamsburg, autumn 1997 -- A plague profiteer?, autumn 1996 -- A tale of two bullets, summer 1996 -- "Nothing without care", October/November 1999 -- William Hogarth, winter 2001-2002 -- Mentioning the unmentionable, winter 2000-2001 -- Hunting for a little ladle, winter 2003-2004 -- An oyster's tale, summer 2003 -- Highwaymen of the high seas, spring 1998

Target audience

adult

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