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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Team
1
Lya, Kristine, Antonio & Colin
Today was our
first day on-site. We left camp at 7:30. We arrived at the site at about
8:40. We hiked for a little bit on the trail. Every time we saw a trail
going off to the side, we investigated to see what it was. We found the
lagoon with the Portland shipwreck, and a large clearing, which has not
been named yet. We were assigned to map today. Lya and Antonio went off
to explore the area and found several small artifacts in the woods. When
they came back, Antonio helped Kristine and Colin with mapping. Lya took
notes and drew the scene of her partners working. She took tons of
pictures. We left at noon. We ate lunch in the car on the way to Alpena.
We went to a harbor to look at existing historical markers. Then, our
team went to NOAA to take a tour until 3:00. After NOAA, we went to the
library. We left Alpena around 5:00 and got home around 6:15. We had
dinner, and then Kristine and Lya came to the study to get some work
done. Kristine worked on re-drawing the maps. Lya took notes on articles
in the team binder.
Tomorrow we will
be surveying. We will be looking for Ed Fisher’s house around the
general store. We will be looking for the Indian burial ground, and
other miscellaneous artifacts.
Team
2
Michael, Deidra,
Allison, & Adnane
Today was our
first day at the archeology site. As a group, our job was to map a
section of the “ruins”. These ruins are believed to be the General Store
of Bell Village. We know this because we found a safe which is suppose
to be part of the store and there was another artifact that would not be
part of a home. It looked like a type of storage container. (Thanks to
Group 1’s Research)
Then we went to
NOAA and the library. Both sites helped us find and continue our
research. At NOAA we got to ask questions about the historical markers
we were assigned. We also got to see their “Shipwreck Century” Exhibit.
At the library we listened to examples of specific shipwrecks, and then
got to practice recording the history of a shipwreck. We did this using
data found from different sources that was provided to us by a maritime
shipwreck specialist at the library.
After this we
returned to Ocqueoc and had dinner. Dinner preceded volleyball and
basketball, which were nice bonding opportunities for all of us after a
tough day of mapping. After this we shared information with the rest of
the teams. We then went to bed, yay!
Daily Quote:
Adnane: “I wonder
if there’s any money in the safe…”
Michael: “Die
mosquito, die!”
Excuses of the
Day:
Allie: “Squatting
makes my knees hurt!”
Deidra: “I lost my
contact!”
Adnane: “I’m too
cool for this!”
Michael: “It’s too
hot!”
Team
3
Cassie. Achal, Eric, and Ahmed
Today our group had chef duty. We got
up early to set up all of the food for people to make their breakfast
and their lunch. We were able to eat and pack up everything early so we
left at 7:31. We drove for about forty minutes to arrive on the trail
that would lead us to Bell. We followed the trail and looked at the
lagoon along with other possible locations for the town before we found
some remains. We separated into two large groups. Group one and two went
to map the site for the day. Our group along with group four explored
and surveyed the area for artifacts. Overall our group explored four
areas, but only surveyed three. We only surveyed three because the
protected pines contained no artifacts that would could see. Some of the
artifacts that we saw include metal sheets, metal strips, and bricks. In
areas that we did not survey we saw a safe, structure foundation, a
metal box, cans, and bottles. For every area that we surveyed we counted
steps back to the baseline so we would know where we could find them
again. For our surveys we created N/S and E/W lines to give a general
description of the artifacts and the area. When we had finished we
headed back to the vans and ate our lunch on the way to the historic
markers. We were looking at the layout and designs of the markers to
help us create our own and present our ideas on Friday. After we had
finished looking at them group one and two left to go to NOAA. We stayed
along with group four and started to plan our own historic markers. We
worked on this for about fifteen minutes and then headed to the library
to learn about shipwrecks and how hard it is to determine what really
happened to a ship through out its life. After this we headed to NOAA
and learned about shipwrecks of the last century in this area. Their
learning centers we set p very well and everyone enjoyed them. To teach
people how a boat is structured and created crawling tubes we set up
above a pseudo shipwreck so you could see it from a bird’s eye view. We
stayed here for about an hour and then started to head back to the
campsite. At the campsite we ate dinner, cleaned up, and then had a
little bit of free time before we went back to the classroom. We had a
quick break down of what everyone did today when we got back to the
classroom and then we discussed what we would be doing tomorrow.
Team 4
Guadalupe, Sydney, Shane & Joseph
The day started off with our group
having the “KP Job." It wasn’t bad; but having to do every ones’ dishes
wasn’t exactly heaven on earth.
After breakfast was finished we
started on our journey to Bell Village; a ghost town. The trip was an
hour long, so it’s no surprise that we all fell asleep.
Once we arrived at Bell Village, we
split into our groups and went scouting. Our group wasn’t exactly sure
on what to do, so we went and observed tins and cans. We were really
surprised to find a “Letter Box”. The Letter Box contained ink, stamps,
and most importantly a sketchbook. We decided this was extremely
important seeing as this had first hand experience with the land.
We also went to the library. It wasn’t
all that important to our groups, but it did have interesting facts on
the last two hundred shipwrecks.
Lastly, we went to NOAA. This is an
organization around the world that has collected data and artifacts
about shipwrecks in Huron Lake. This place was very informational, and
we began to actually understand why so many ships wrecked. One
conclusion that we came up with is fog, and popularity of the bay.
Another reason for possible wrecks was that of the weather in places
such as Thunder Bay was very harsh many times sinking the boats.
Afterwards we began our return back to
our camp. The trip was very quiet, since most of us had fallen asleep.
We made sure that we still had all our equipment and that our group was
still on the same page.
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