Pocemtuck Festival - Aug 5, 6

 

I wrote a book: A Shadow Under The Rock

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A visit to the Robbins Museum - Home of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society.

Went to visit what is surely one of the great displays of arrowheads to be seen anywhere. I have complex thoughts about how most of museum's pieces rival my own best finds. And about mortality: The folks who collected those arrowheads are as gone as the people who made them. At the same time those beautiful points mean much less to me than my own finds. I am already forgetting the stories of how I found my own and, when they end up in the museum my sense of their beauty will be gone. Meanwhile, look at this!

These are the shouldered points I am most enamored with at the moment. Never found any in Concord like those.

A fine display:

Liking the "green" argillite:

Gregg Lott, VP of the MAS

Jake ...(could not catch the last name). President of MAS.

Knowledgeable guys, and friendly. Continuing:

These are said to be atlatl counterweights

And here are a lot more:

I think these displays are in very good taste.

Wow.

North Shore Cape Cod Arrowhead

A young colleague, Spencer Chosse, told me about this place. I was looking hard and got very lucky. The beach environment offers many hundreds of rocks per square foot but I had slowed down in one place, because there were a few more broken rocks than I'd been seeing. In this one spot, I was looking at each of the rocks. This one could just as well have turned out to be nothing. That is the real luck.

Update: I should include this as well: