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In this issue:

This Week's Show: Kensington Pilgrimage
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Op/Ed: The Hardest Part

Possum Holler News: Cue the Music!

Other news: Ancient board-games and a compass-rose unearthed in Iran
<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AnU_9DZ1d.W5g16KJWfRkPZ82PAI;_ylu=X3oDMTFkNW50
cDczBGlpZAM1MDczNzIxNTM4MDM1Njc1NzE4BG5vaAM1BHBvcwMxBHJpZAMxNTM2MA--/SIG=11o
mofks5/**http%3A//www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002788.html>

Events: Send your organization's events to oz@...
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Last week's show: Rick Firestone
<http://blogtalkradio.com/oopa-loopa-cafe/2008/04/18/TBA> , Cycle of Cosmic
Catastrophes

<http://www.blogtalkradio.com/oopa-loopa-cafe/2007/10/13/brian-kannard-live-
from-paris>
Next week's show: May Day, May Day!!

Site of the week <http://www.freewebs.com/historyofmonksmound/> :
http://www.anarchaeology.com/ <http://www.anarchaeology.com/>

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This Week's Show: Kensington Pilgrimage
<http://blogtalkradio.com/oopa-loopa-café>

Tracking Eight Goths and Twenty Two Norwegians on Rune Stone Hill
Photo: Judi Rudebusch

On April 14th I made a pilgrimage to Alexandria and Kensington Minnesota to
visit the Kensington Rune Stone Museum, the future home of the Kensington
Area Historical Society, and the Ohman Farm Park. I received a warm
reception from the staff at the museum, the county employee in charge of
planning for the park, some other interested parties. I’ll describe what I
encountered and my impressions. The next day, I was privileged to tour Scott
Wolter’s lab where he conducted the majority of the geological testing on
the Rune Stone. The next day included a quick stop at Wayne May’s place and
a once in a lifetime encounter with a specimen of Wisconsin wildlife.




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Op/Ed: The Hardest Part

The hardest, most dreaded part of my compiling this newsletter is always the
part you are reading right now. Expressing an opinion, writing an essay,
formulating an argument, or choosing the right words to convince a jury of
your peers poses no easy task, especially if you want those words to spur
some action on the part of others. Other factors, such as style, tone,
usage, and complexity also play important roles, but the action verbs
inspire, while passive verbs just are.

Research! Evaluate! Compile! Establish! Postulate! Compose! Write! Present!
Defend! Correlate! Collaborate! Extrapolate!

All these verbs might apply to what this community attempts to convey to
accredited institutions regarding the facts as we see them. Sometimes, we
get the facts wrong (but seldom). Sometimes, we misinterpret data (equally
seldom). Sometimes, a major find meets dismissal on the basis of a single
negative opinion (though that opinion promulgates throughout academia).

Rather than trying to convince someone of the validity and provenience of an
artifact (that it is real), perhaps we need to convince them, simply, that
it merits formal study and then go on to provide a draft plan for that
study. Citing previous scholarly work almost always contributes positively
to such an argument. Evaluating previous test and evaluation protocols and
adapting them to the work in question can provide a shortcut and cost
savings for some types of investigations. By extension, and more pointedly,
most investigations require funding and a sound financial plan remains the
most certain aspect of capturing academic attention.

Okay, my part in this comes to a temporary end. Your turn.

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Please feel free to submit opinions or editorials for this section to
mailto:oz@... <mailto:oz@...>

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Possum Holler News: Cue the music!

I’m adding a short commercial break at the half hour, bumper music, and some
carefully selected and placed sound effects. First up as far as bumper music
features “ Sick of Sarah
<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_seeall_1?ie=UTF8&rs=&keywords=Sick%20of%2
0Sarah&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ASick%20of%20Sarah%2Ci%3Adigital-music> ”, with
Abeesha on vocals and guitar. New musicians rarely impress me, but this one
exhibits promising talent. I only hope she soon realizes that explicit
lyrics possess no intrinsic artistic merit.

The green season is upon us, and the mowing and tending of the studio
grounds is an all day task, sometimes twice a week.

The “new” (to me) airplane, designed for a pilot six inches shorter than I
am, is going to be quite an undertaking – or I will fly quite uncomfortably.

.Pat underwent an angiogram today. No blockage. All is right with the world.
Well, with her heart, anyway. But then I already knew she had a great heart.


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Other news: Ancient board-games and a compass-rose unearthed in Iran
<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AnU_9DZ1d.W5g16KJWfRkPZ82PAI;_ylu=X3oDMTFkNW50
cDczBGlpZAM1MDczNzIxNTM4MDM1Njc1NzE4BG5vaAM1BHBvcwMxBHJpZAMxNTM2MA--/SIG=11o
mofks5/**http%3A//www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002788.html>

One million artifacts acquired by US museum
<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AoxkX4Ioic_UUJp5mXmzX5p82PAI;_ylu=X3oDMTFjM2w5
NHYwBGlpZAM0ODU0Mzk0MTYzNTQzNTMzMjkEbm9oAzUEcG9zAzIEcmlkAzE1MzYw/SIG=11o8iut
39/**http%3A//www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002787.html>

Alpine task force formed to salvage prehistoric treasures
<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AmC.m2_EbwOMC2qjmU90wrt82PAI;_ylu=X3oDMTFlbnNq
azZzBGlpZAMxNDcwMzU1NzQ4MDQxNDg0MjI3NARub2gDNQRwb3MDMwRyaWQDMTUzNjA-/SIG=11o
bh85ki/**http%3A//www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002786.html>

Did Romans 'tide up' Stonehenge?
<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AqY._3BH1uvuOVYytb3Ov8h82PAI;_ylu=X3oDMTFkZDVp
aGZhBGlpZAM3NjQ5NzYzMjk5NzQ1Njg2ODg2BG5vaAM1BHBvcwM0BHJpZAMxNTM2MA--/SIG=11o
7k8ntk/**http%3A//www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002785.html>

Exploring mesolithic times of British moorland life
<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AojweQWZcUgDQt7V_YYL5jl82PAI;_ylu=X3oDMTFkZzRk
dDh0BGlpZAM5NTAyMTkwNjgyNDYxNjc1NjEwBG5vaAM1BHBvcwM1BHJpZAMxNTM2MA--/SIG=11o
38e49p/**http%3A//www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002784.html>

State Historic Properties Website Goes Live - Inside INdiana Business (press
release)
<http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=R&url=http://www.insidein
dianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp%3FID%3D28955&cid=1152477959&ei=CH0PSNSxKYyMyQ
TGg8nMBg&usg=AFrqEzcwt_FprNZ7_-Iyma90NcHCUI9hPA>



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Last week's show: Rick Firestone
<http://blogtalkradio.com/oopa-loopa-cafe/2008/04/18/TBA> , Cycle of Cosmic
Catastrophes
<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_dmusic/102-4513910-8134527?url=search-ali
as%3Daps&field-keywords=cycle+of+cosmic+catastrophes>

Dr. Richard Firestone, of Lawrence Berkley Laboratories, is part of the
inter-disciplinary team that discovered evidence of an extraterrestrial
impact event, associated it with the demise of the Clovis culture and the
megafuanal extinction event and the Younger-Dryas climatic event. His
contribution was part of the recent History Channel special, Journey to
10,000 BC.


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Next week's show: May Day, May Day!!

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Site of the week: http://www.anarchaeology.com/
<http://www.anarchaeology.com/>
<http://idigstonesandbones.com/>


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