How's the sound? Can you hear me in the back? Excellent. Thank you all for braving the elements today to come out to listen to this talk. This is one that is very near and dear to my heart because archaeology is the subject that I have been passionate about since I was very young. I did get a degree finally in my late 30s in archaeology. Do not have the field experience of the many archaeologists in the area whose work I have come to know and respect. So I'm going to, this is a tribute to archaeology and Civil War history. And it's an overview of where we have come from and where we hope to go. What you see on the screen today is a little bit of promotion for Knox County and our sesquicentennial commission. Knox County a year ago recognized the importance of commemorating our Civil War past and we've been working 15 member committee putting together events such as this and more that you will see. 2013 is our big year. That's the year where most of what happened in Knoxville happened. And so that will be our 150th. So it looked to August of 2013. We have wonderful things going on south of the river that we'll be talking about and downtown. This is one of those things downtown. This is the visitor's center at Blunt Mansion and we will be opening a downtown gateway. This is not meant as a destination by itself but this will be an information center for guided tours, walking tours, self-guided tours, maps, all of that information that we've been collecting now about what is Civil War history. And this will be open, hopefully it'll be open six days a week, 11 to five, that's our grand plan if we just get somebody to fund it. It always comes down to that. But this is a downtown presence in Knoxville that Knoxville has not had in 150 years in terms of Civil War history. All right, let's look at archeology and the study of Knoxville's Civil War past. How do we know where to look? Well, basically we have, this is in quotes, Poe called it his beautiful map. When he perceived the copy of this map in March of 64, fresh from the printers, he looked at it, he wrote to his wife's center copy and he said just simply it is a beautiful map and it is, it is a very technically and topographically and geographically and all of that militarily this is a beautiful map. But we can go one step further today and many of you know we've already done this and we have Mr. Charles Reeds here who actually did the beautiful graphics for it. What we can do is we can take Poe's beautiful map and we can enlarge it, we can fly over it, we can superimpose today on yesterday.  These blue lines and red lines are the union fortifications and the Confederate fortifications. The railroad is exactly where it was. Kingston Pike is where it was. When you look at the downtown grid, and I'll just move it slowly, you can see that our present day streets line up with the downtown just as it was in 1863, 64. The river very, you'd think it'd be different for at least wider because of what TVA did back in the time, what, 20s and 30s and TVA in the 40s even longer. But in fact, the river is very close to what it was. River was called the Holston at this time, same river though, and on the south side of the river you can see beautiful details of topography and military installations. This particular one is interesting. There's a beautiful quarry on the Fort Dickerson property. If anybody's ever been out there, you can stand and overlook and it is a spectacularly impressive natural, well not natural, it's not natural, it's a whole dug in the ground to quarry stone out of. But underneath it, it coincides exactly. Bright blue line is today's water and the blue line underneath it is a union fortification. So some of these are irretrievably lost, but, and I'll talk about these piece by piece because of some amazing things that have happened in the past four years. We now have the possibility of saving, interpreting and making a true community resource of these beautiful places south of the river. Now, let's see, we'll go back to PoseMap and other maps. Knoxville is extremely well documented. I don't know if many of you are familiar with this one. This map was done by a man who was a private from Ohio. He came here in 1864. He was stationed at the top of Fort Dickerson and he was an amateur artist and he gave us this very detailed drawing of what Knoxville looked like and of course he's a soldier and he's interested in fortification. So here we have Fort Sanders, here we have the top of the hill at UT, we have Fort Dickerson where he is staying himself where his troops are and the downtown grid. This is Cumberland Gap. And when I first thought I thought, well, that's an exaggeration but he probably knew it was there because so many of the troops came down through Cumberland Gap after the original Union occupation but as it turns out, there's a letter from a man who was writing in 1864 and a soldier from another unit. He is on top of Fort Dickerson and he describes seeing Cumberland Gap in the distance. So I imagine that those two accounts completely unrelated to each other probably verify pretty well that the Cumberland Gap can be seen from the top of Fort Dickerson. I have never personally seen it. I don't know if the air is not as clear now. We certainly know that's true but from the top of Fort Dickerson with all of the trees down as they were during the war the view must have been spectacular. So this kind of information is another way that we know what Knoxville sites looked like in 1864, what buildings were where, what the street pattern was like. We did find out these hearts. This is a little bit of a side story. The hearts attributed to Valentine's Day were the reason that this particular picture was saved. It was in a collection in Ohio in an old Valentine collection. As it turns out, the heart is actually the symbol of the 23rd Army Corps and this was never meant to be a Valentine but it got saved because somebody thought it was and so this one kind of happened into the present day. That's the way a lot of artifacts just happen into the present day. Mostly, very frequently, it's completely random as to what shows up 150 years after something happens. This map, not as clear and the point of this map is that it has a key. I think what happened was a man named Seth Abbey who was a sergeant. He was about 65 years old. He was a sergeant, very unusual. For a man that old to be in the ranks but I think what it is that he copied the poem map and then he added a wonderful key with all of these different points of interest and with those little letters. So if you look at his map in detail and you can blow it up. Oh, the power of computers is just wonderful. You can blow it up and you can find all those little letters and you can find where the Baptist church was or the steam flowering mill or the grist mill or the mansion house. All of these things are labeled and they're put onto this Abbey map. This one exists in Nashville and they've been working very hard on the archives, the state archives to digitize these old maps and make them available to us online. It's a resource that is fascinating. You can sit down at seven o'clock at night and look up at 11 and realize that you have been playing with old maps for four hours. Another way we have documentation of what was where, the newspaper. Now of course these aren't gonna be as accurate. These were not produced by the military. They had embeds, they had reporters on the scene, they had people writing up the history but for instance here you can see Dr. Roger's house. This is a house that was mentioned several times in other documentation. There was a diary by a lady named Elizabeth Carat, wait a minute, Baker, this is Baker Crozier. Okay, Elizabeth Baker Crozier was a diarist and she mentions action south of the river at Dr. Roger's house. That's in a letter and her diary and there we have Dr. Roger's house again on the map. That big beautiful map of Knox County has Dr. Roger's house on it. So but it's very comforting to find reinforcement so that you find in several places the same information about a place that is still potentially on the map. You can see here too, it tells us this is where the 27th Kentucky was lined up, the 24th Kentucky camp, Wilder's battery, all of this great information about where people were, where the units were, where they were positioned. And of course it's not static, they may have moved around but this paper is very nicely dated right there, December 5th, 1863, New York Tribune and there we have a snapshot in time on the ground south of the river. Now another kind of information we have about what was there is this kind of military drawing. This was then in 64, it was not done by Poe, the original Fort Sanders at least at the time of the attack which was November 63 just had these front two bastions, the western bastions were completed. This work was completed by a man named Davis Tilson, he was an engineering officer and he came to Knoxville after Poe left, Poe in fact was personally recruited by Sherman to go with him and be the engineer in charge of the march to the city. Poe was the one who put down the corduroy roads, who figured out how to rip up railroad tracks. I suspect he's the one who invented Sherman bow ties if you've ever heard of what they did to railroad ties so they couldn't be used again. You heat them in the middle of a fire, it gets malleable and then you can pull the tie in that kind of position around a tree. It's a very effective way of making a railroad inoperable and Poe because of the work that he did here, Sherman who got here in early December after the battle was over, met Poe and was very impressed with his abilities and so Sherman went for a little while to Nashville but then he went down, he was on the campaign with Sherman, he was in Atlanta, he was in Savannah, he was in Columbia and his papers are at Library of Congress, he wrote a diary. He was a man with an eye on the future, he wrote extensively, daily, letters, diaries, notation and he also made sure that all of those papers were donated to Library of Congress so they are all available. Now another good way to know what was there is if you like this. This is somewhere between a map and a painting but the larger version is printed in 1871, this is Gay Street, this is the nice residential area where people who could afford to want it to live, this is St. John's Episcopal Church. Over here is First Presbyterian Church and you can see they're not just little blocks, the detail of the architecture is there. Down here, Perez Dickinson's house with the same kind of architecture we know from other ways and I'll tell you a little more about that. So this kind of schematic is extremely useful in looking at what was there and what might be left in the archeological record. Now of course we've got photography. This was a portrait, a painting, a picture, a photograph, four panels taken in 1866. By Manning Schlierer, he was a photographer here in Knoxville and this can be blown up again with a wonderfulness of computers. This is Second Presbyterian Church. This is the Methodist Church, Church Street Methodist Church before it enlarged itself and before then that enlarged congregation moved itself over to Henley Street. So this is where those two churches were pretty much across the street from each other. This is the courthouse, Gay Street. Again, First Presbyterian Church, very easy to recognize. The railroad is up in this direction and of course there's the river and this detail when you blow it up is amazing. You can see the wash on the clothesline. That is one way they told, I think it's this one, that they said this must have been taken on a Monday. Monday's wash day. You can also tell by the shadows what time of day. Sun's gonna be over here in the west. This is a late afternoon photograph. There are so many of those kinds of hints as to what's going on, when this was, where it was that can be derived from the detail in it and they don't just depend, well, depending on the resolution of course. If you get the right resolution, when you enlarge it, it doesn't just become big pixels which is very frustrating when you're trying to find detail. But the detail in here has been captured by the camera and when you enlarge it, you can get after detail that is astounding in some cases. Now of course we also have a full scale excavation. Not to name names, but Steve Dean and Smiley Clap and Earl Heth were responsible for putting together just an amazingly accurate full scale reproduction of Fort Sanders out in East Knox County. And I often think about that first conversation when Steve called Earl to say, and Earl, Dr. Heth is a military fortifications expert. We're so fortunate to have him in our area and we can ask him about all the details that only an expert would know. But can you imagine the first phone call when Steve calls him and says, yeah, I'm gonna build a full scale replica of Fort Sanders. And Earl was probably going, uh-huh, let me know when you're finished. That's interesting to hear, really, but he did. And this was built for the DVD that we put together to go with our exhibit. The battle that was reenacted for this DVD so that we had the authenticity was reenacted on a full scale replica of Fort Sanders. And since that time in the fall, in October, they've had reenactments and educational programming and just very well done, historically accurate, historically sympathetic events out at this fort that's still there. It is, before the sesquicentennial, there will be another event at that location. It's not exactly hidden, but it is on private property and it is in a cow pasture. And so it's not open to the public. But when these events are announced, they are welcoming everyone to come and learn and see what this is like. Apparently the guys who did the first reenactment were beside themselves to be able to try to charge up this parapet that Confederates did. The blood in the DVD is authentic. They scraped their knuckles, they tripped over the wire. It was, nobody had ever had a better weekend, I think. Now, of course, we've also got an 18, well, an 1863, 150-year-old, almost entirely intact in the park south of the river called Fort Dickerson. And it's beautiful. Unfortunately, we have not really protected it in a way. You go some places in the state and they have wooden ramps so that the people can walk out into the middle and look at the earthwork. You don't get to run all over it and picnic on it and all of that. Plus, these trees are an issue. And the park service has done a lot of work trying to figure out what do you do with a 150-year-old genuine artifact? If you take the trees down, it's gonna disrupt it. Trees are natural, but they weren't there in 1863. There are a lot of issues when you think about preserving, interpreting, making it, stabilizing it, but also making it available to the public for historical, to re-live the past. It's real, it's there. It's really not deteriorating much now because it's got grass and leaves all over it, but it is also a perishable resource. And of course, some of the things we have in town, like what they call during the War of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum looks exactly as it did in 1840, but it was built in 48 and it was used by the Confederates for the first half of the war as a hospital and by the Union during the second half. So this is a living, working artifact and it looks now, it's gone through several stages. I believe it was stuck old for a while. It was a city hall for a while. It's gone through several uses. It was TDA used it for a while and now the Duncan Law School. But it is a beautiful building that has certainly survived the test of time and kind of wish they didn't put that big high rise behind it. She said, it spoils that cut off as much as it could, but it does kind of spoil the skyline. So anyway, what does archeologically collected knowledge bring to the historic record? Once we've got all of that, and I didn't even talk about the official reports and the letters and the diaries and those kinds of detail. What else do we need to know? How is it that we don't know everything that there is to know about that time period? Why bother digging in the ground? Well, there are some good reasons to dig in the ground. First of all, we can support that historic record. There's nothing like reading primary documentation and then reading some of the history books to realize history's all about interpretation. And it's like every time, you know, we hear of to the victor goes the spoils, well to the victor goes the history. The winner gets to write what happened and not all of our historic records are as actually based as we think they are. You have to be a very critical consumer to look at any kind of historic interpretation and believe it, at face value. There's no downside to reinforcing what you think you know is true about history and archeology can certainly do that by physical remains. Also, refutation, well the flip side is you may have believed something forever and when they went to look for it in the ground there was some way that all of a sudden the evidence said no, that's wrong. That's what you thought, that didn't happen that way. Of course, another thing is you can augment history. Maybe all the details didn't make it into the history books. For instance, the African American history in Knoxville is very sparse as it is all over the South before Emancipation, before written history. So it was oral tradition, oral culture, many, some slaves, enslaved people could write things down but there was no formal mechanism for transmitting written history. And so using archeological data is a great way to fill in the historic record for whole elements of our society who didn't get included. Also, there are brand new discoveries to be made. There are things that come out of the ground that you had no idea was a part of whatever it is, go into it thinking you know something about. Also, it's not just items that show up archeologically and we have real archeologists here in the room who know that what you're looking at is the relationship between artifacts and features. Features are stains in the dirt, they are remnants of burned material, they're wagon wheel ruts, they're things that you can't take away and put in the museum, but they are always important when it comes to telling the complete story of what happened there on the ground physically in the past. And also now archeology has so many wonderful scientific techniques to apply to dirt, to apply to the things that come out of the dirt. And also archeologists will tell you it's a never good idea if you can help it to completely excavate any site. If archeology is destructive, just like anything else, when you dig a hole in the ground what you've got left is a hole. And if you haven't documented it very, very meticulously on the way down with all of the tools that we have now, photography and computer measurements and all of that, well then you've done no good. But also if you completely excavate the site then you have taken the possibility away from future archeologists who are gonna come in with surely bigger and better kinds of scientific techniques to get even more data out of the ground. It made me, we used to be that we scrubbed all of our artifacts and we made them clean and pretty. And then we discovered DNA could be taken from tools, from weapons. And then it seemed like maybe that wasn't such a good idea to clean them up quite so well. So there are things that will come in the future that maybe we know about now and think we're gonna do and things that we can't even guess. But responsible archeology will leave some of it so that in the future it might be revisited. Of course there are times when you have no option. It's gone and we're gonna talk about that now. All right, yeah it's a little wordy. I'll just read this to you. The cycle of human activity is first of all actions of the present fade into time. Physical remains are subject to the destruction of natural forces. Many locations face the additional destruction of successive human activity, development or progress.  Professionals have sophisticated methods for retrieval of what remains in the ground. Laboratories provide analysis and preservation. Museums do interpretation, exhibits and programming. Using archeological results, a museum such as ours offers artifact conservation, preservation and archiving. We do educational touring. We have school kids here and senior groups and church groups and anybody who we can accommodate. We are welcome to come and see what has been preserved in this institution. Also we have education collections for students. There is our students, our younger students, older students get a big thrill out of handling real artifacts. Things from Native American pastings from Civil War pasts. They're a certain subset of what we get. We don't know anything about it and it's not a risk to let people handle them. And so those things are made available for education and also our exhibits. I was very pleased to see many of you looking at the Civil War exhibits and the archeological exhibit on the way through. So, and also a museum is for what we're doing here today. Programs for the historical enrichment of the entire community in Knoxville and the thousands of descendants of the men from all around our nation who fought and died here 150 years ago. This is important. It's not just regional, although there's nothing wrong with just regional, but this is something that applies to what happened to our whole country 150 years ago. Now, there have been many years of archeological effort that have been gone, the people in this room, I just wanna, I won't embarrass you by having to stand up, but Dr. Jefferson Chapman over here, Mike Boss, has been, this report was in 1980 and we have all up here, Mike and Jennifer, they are archeologists in the field today. Are there any other professional archeologists here? Anybody? All right, well these are the people who know the science of it, who know, and it is hard work, believe me, and most of it is truly boring. You are so focused on details and going down, down, down, flake by flake of dirt before you find anything interesting, but the science of saving that stuff and producing for posterity something that would have been lost is really very gratifying. So I wanna start with back in 1982 and those of you who have been here for longer than I have know that the Hilton Hotel on Church Street was built about that time and about the time the archeologists from UT got access to the site, this is what it already looked like. Yeah, there was not a preliminary plan. There was, I don't even know what the legislation was then. Right now, if you are using any kind of federal money, you're required to do an archeological impact survey, but I'm not sure if that's okay. Was there federal money with this, Jeff? No. So this is what it looked like when they started trying to say, whoa, halt, let us just take a quick look at what you've got here. And they did that. They produced several reports for this whole downtown project that looks like this. Another thing too, when I started looking at these reports from the early 80s up until now, the technology for producing photographs and producing charts and graphs and printed material and all of that, we have just blitzed into the future in terms of being able to technologically, not just with words or sketches, but with detailed, well, I'll show you.  This is what it looked like and this is what they said in that early days. Finally, as a result of follow-through, they arched archeologists at the University of Tennessee some beneficial means of raising awareness and recruiting support with regard to the need and methods of preserving our cultural resources have been presented to city government agencies, private developers, and other responsible individuals. Admittedly, not every cultural resource can be saved simply because it is there, but it is hoped that the management of such valuable resources can soon become the focus of strategically planned investigations to learn something of our past cultural heritage. So that was 30, what, 32 years ago and we're still working towards that goal. In downtown Knoxville, there was another site that was excavated in 1988 in the sovereign bank site. It is beside the beautiful Baptist Church and it's there still, the Baptist Church was not on that site during the Civil War. It was on Gay Street, but any rate, this is the family home of Perez Dickinson. He was a man who came to Knoxville from New England. He was a distant cousin of Emily Dickinson and no, she never came. Some of our local history says, oh, Emily came and wrote such and such poetry while visiting her cousin. Probably not. Emily didn't travel much. She was a recluse and she probably was never here in Knoxville. When he died, very wealthy man, very modest tombstone, but he chose to put on his tombstone a resident of Knoxville, 71 years. He was very proud of the fact that he was a Tennessean. He built a very large, beautiful home on this lot on Main Street and this is an 1856 sketch. This is, as you can see, a very old photograph. This is a blow up from one of those 1866 photographs and you can see it kind of steps down the hill. They called it Italianate and it doesn't, I don't know what that means, but architects do. This shows you, it was rather significantly enhanced in the front. This was when it was the Adkins Mansion. It was apparently demolished in about 1949 to build a parking lot. And I talked, some of the most finest people in town I go out to visit are the thanks alive group at the Baptist Church. We had so much fun, they're very concerned about history and community and all of that, but when I was, I asked them one time about the Adkins Mansion and they said, well, we had the opportunity to buy it, but it was a lot of money and it was such an old building and someone else had put in. Anyway, I thought it had happened within the past 10 or 20 years, but the Saints Alive Group, when I realized the average age, they were talking about whether it was just happened. 1949 wasn't all that long ago, apparently, in some of the working memories of the leveling members of the Saints Alive Group. So we taught, when I came out of the discussion, as they said, I thought it just happened, but in fact it was 1949 when this building was lost. The facts from the excavation. This is one of those times where people actually used archeological data to look at a sociological issue. That is, was Perez Dickinson a slave owner? Perez came from New England. He came to Knoxville. He first, he was gonna be a teacher. He discovered that it was way more lucrative to be a merchant and so he went into business with his brother-in-law, James Cowan and they became Cowan and Dickinson or Dickinson and Cowan, one of those and then they got together with him, Clungs. Anyway, he was one of the wealthiest men in town. He did very excellent trading. During the war, we know that he went back up north for a while, he came back in 1864. Early in the war, he was brought before a court who they questioned his loyalty to the Confederate cause. There was some kind of fine involved, but one of the more oral traditions about him was that he was an abolitionist, that he had established an abolitionist newspaper that he allowed African Americans to conduct church services on his back porch. All of these things kind of reinforced the idea that he was an early advocate of emancipation and release of slave, demolishing slavery as an institution in this area. When they excavated his property, there were slave quarters and when you look at the tax records, he paid tax on slave and there's really the physical record of the slaves, it was his house, he built it. And so that's pretty conclusive right there. And that's one way where kind of oral tradition, history people think they know and archeology can come together and the record can be corrected. There's no doubt that he was a slave owner. And that's pretty much everybody in town. There were no ardent abolitionists. In Knoxville had slaves, domestic servants mostly. The terrain, the landscape was not especially conducive to large scale farming, plantation. There weren't very many slave holders with large numbers and slavery was not a major issue for Knoxvillians and Knox Countyans when it came to reasons that were going to war. Now that does not diminish the issue and the larger scope of the war, but in this area, it wasn't that people were anti-slavery or pro-slavery. It wasn't economically effective. There was no reason economically to have large numbers of slaves. But morally or religiously or whatever, most Knoxvillians did not have an issue with slavery. Now the second one, and there were probably others, and I didn't try to do totally every excavation that was out there, but this one was good because in 1993, the Severville Hill site, which is on the far east of the south of the river line, this would have been way down here. I realize most of you can't see this, but it's on the south side of the river and it's about as far east as the federal's put in any kind of fortification. So this site was basically Bleylock construction. It had bought the hill for dirt and they did, however very kindly agreed an archeological excavation and helped to fund it. So this is what was going on in 1993. There are some very interesting features. This is a hearth with the logs in it that's the excavated hearth. Some of the artifacts that came out of it, these things are, there's a, pencil lead, and this would be the pencil lead, and this is probably the tooth of a comb, pipe fragment, a wet stone, and this is a tiny little dice, or die, one dice, one dice, it, and these artifacts are actually in our exhibit upstairs if you look up there, you can see them.  They are not impressive. They're not musket balls and the sabers and that sort of thing, but they do tell the story of what it was like for soldiers living in the back side, the city side, the back side of the hill, the front side of the hill is defended to the south, so the soldiers are gonna live on the back of the hill and this report produced some very interesting information about how these cabins were constructed and what kind of artifacts they left behind. And this is a picture of what it looks like out in our exhibit. Now, this is 2006. This is on the south side of the river, right along Cherokee Trail. Many of you may have seen it going in. After a grueling fight, and this was not something I knew about actually at that point, I really didn't know too much of the details, but the land was sold to a developer and there were people in town who knew a lot about it and have spent hours and hours of personal time trying to get a historic overlay on this property, trying to convince city government that the land was civil war significant, that there could be some stuff there, but the process, whatever transpired, I do not have all of those details, but what I do know is this is what the end result was. The big earth moving equipment went in. There you go. And this is the kind of stuff that came out of the ground. These pictures are, there was an amateur historian, oh, the guy who, he's a reenactor, he's extremely interested in civil war history. While the bulldozers were moving around, there were guys out there with metal detectors. They were trespassing, it was illegal. At this point, it was a done deal, and yet they felt that it was worth the risk and they were eventually told to move off. But this is the kind of stuff that they were pulling out of the ground. All of these musket balls, the straps, there's one of these cases, and I can't see the details too well, but there's a Whitworth rifle shell, which if anybody knows armaments from Whitworth, it's a rare beast, it's a long range sniper rifle that the Confederates had.  I think he divided them so that the red are Confederate artifacts and the blue are union. Big artillery pieces, one of that.  If this had been reported, this would have shut down the excavation. This is hallowed ground. This is a Civil War veteran. That's all we know of there. There was not a full skeleton excavated, or if there was, it was gone. The man who showed me this stuff said, his brother-in-law has way more than this in his garage, and it's an opportunity that we missed. It was by the time all of the legal process and the opposition and whatever we did as a community to try to at least survey it before it went to condos, that did not happen. So, things got better. All of a sudden, the economy fell apart. And the property went back on the market. I guess that's a good thing in some ways because in 2008, I can't remember what this year is. I said, hey, I can't remember what this year is. Anyway, the Aslan Foundation and Legacy Park Foundation have gotten together, and we have an unexpected second chance for that property south of the river. In 2009, we hired the archeological expertise of NAC-Tech, and they did, and this is the Civil War Roundtable and the Aslan Foundation, and we did an archeological survey of Fort Higley. This is using laser techniques to get the lay of the land, and this is great. This is a beautiful map, topographical map, feature map. The yellow here, this is the modern road that cut through, and up here, there was a house. But the rest of these things are Civil War era, and they are just where they were and it's very nicely preserved, at least as a geographic location and fortifications. Again, you can see the detail that went into this. Unfortunately, we did not find a single artifact. Now, there wasn't meant to be completely excavated, that wasn't the point, it was a survey, but this area had been so thoroughly metal detected that there was nothing left.  About this big and a pop-top, that was it. And we hear that there are basements all over Knoxville, marked Fort Higley that have stuff. And you know that if it was going to go condo as it was supposed to, well those things we would call, we would say, well thank goodness, that somebody saved it before it got demolished. But since we had the chance to do archeology, we're very disappointed that there was nothing left to augment the information that we have about this site. However, this site is saved and it is beautiful and it is being interpreted and it will be part of the thousand acres south of the river, starting up at IAMS and going down to UT Medical Center that Legacy Parks is working on. The amount of community involvement and support, the trails, the biking club, I think it is, the Smoky Mountain Biking Club. Anybody hear from that group? Anyway, apparently these guys can put in a trail in a weekend. It is an incredible asset for an urban area such as ours to have this acreage with the historic sites, the history, the beautiful Tennessee woodlands, the views from up there, the river. It is going to be something this community can be very, very proud of. Now we did a second archeological survey at the Higley property, this is near Loghaven. And this was done the next year in 2010. We had a beautiful old historic hearth chimney. This is what the excavation looked like. In front of the hearth, there was an area called a, it's either a vegetable cellar or, well there's not a good name for it. Any help? Root cellar, that's it. Root cellar. And it's just a natural collection site for things that fall down on the floor, fall through the cracks, maybe even they might have swept the floor and things might have gone into here. But there was a lot of stuff in here. I was personally hoping for a femur with a mini ball in it because this was supposed to be a hospital site. We had the opportunity to talk to a lady who's father bought the place in 1944. And when I called her on the phone, the first thing she said was, it was a Civil War hospital, you know. And I said, well I'd heard that but how did you know that? And she said, well, the man who sold it to daddy said that it was a Civil War hospital. So, okay, and we'd had indications in the records that there, now a hospital in Civil War times really just means anything with a roof. Some place to get the guy's hand out of the elements. And on the 25th of November, 1863, the Battle of Armstrong Hill that produced all of those artifacts that you saw that came out through the red dirt, there were casualties. And it makes sense that one of the very few buildings in the area would be used for casualties. However, once again, the Civil War, whatever, if there had been Civil War artifacts here, we did not find them. We did find some great stuff. This, for instance, is the sill of the original cabin. I asked the lady about who had lived there, well, what about the historic cabin on the site? And she said, well, I didn't know any cabin, I never saw a cabin. And we had already known that there was this pile of logs from a historic cabin that somewhere in some kind of effort to preserve, people had stacked them, had numbered them, there had been a cabin on the property, but the lady who lived there said she had no idea, she'd never seen a cabin. As it turned out, those sills, the hearth, the original settlers' cabin, which was probably started built in the 1820s, had been completely enclosed by the house that was built up around it. So when the house that was from the 40s, 30s, 40s was demolished inside with a settlers' cabin. That's not unusual. That happens in East Tennessee really quite a lot. They kind of just build it around and they put some sheet rock or lathe or something, plaster on the old walls and then build out and expand and these treasures can be found inside. Now this one was found before, well, somebody did try to preserve it. As I said, they did stack it off to the side, they did number the logs, but it was too far gone for us to preserve it. So, but that information was interesting, valuable and absolutely that building was there in 1863. However, the amputation pit that we thought maybe we find or any of those good things like maybe an insignia, just something, not to be gory about it, but to say this Civil War history happened here and here is a story to be told. But artifacts did come out of the ground. This is a very odd looking pipe. One of my colleagues here tells me there's one similar to this in a museum in Florida. It would have been a tobacco pipe. You got a bone-handled knife, a coin, 1897. It's always nice to have a coin. Nothing like a nice date falling into the pit and below and above. Of course, as archeologists will tell you, you can't be sure that things didn't get stirred up at some point and some of the time stratigraphy is, well, hard to give full credibility. Nevertheless, these are the kinds of things that came out of that pit in front of the hearth. Lots of pieces of pottery, these kinds of personal use items. Early in the excavation, they did find a finger bone, but that was it in terms of anything like. And of course, on a house site, cabin site like this, there are very, very many ways you can lose a finger bone, so that didn't contribute to our knowledge of the Civil War past. Now, Morgan Hill, this is the beautiful exhibit that is curated and exhibited out here, and this is the one that Mike worked on and produced a report for us that was just spectacular. There's, in the exhibit out here, this is unpublished. This is a painting by Ken Smith, who's a Civil War artist. This is basically for everyone who lives here in front of Tyson Junior High School on Kingston Pike, where that big tide box building is, on the other side of the road, where the sorority village is going in. This is where this Confederate artillery line was positioned. It's on post map, and they found it pretty much where a post said it was. This is standing up in that student housing building now looking down. Remember what that site looked like before? All the construction was going on. Started, it's going on now. Up to the side here, these are hearts that were cut into the sidewall of the trench. It's November. It is freezing cold. The troops, Long Streets troops, some of the artillery, some of the artillery, some apparently were picked up in Chattanooga and Earl will keep me straight about this, but they weren't all necessarily from Virginia summer, but many of them came down on the train from Virginia with summer uniforms, and now it's November and it's an East Tennessee winter. These guys are freezing and they are down in the trench and they're building fires along the wall. This area here was all excavated. Now this is what happens when it rains, but here you can see the soil staying. And in this case it's so important as archeology. It's not just the stuff you pop out of the ground. That's the problem with metal detecting. This is a whole feature. It's a story, and if you've gone through with a metal detector and dug in the ground and popped things out, they're gone. It's not part of the story. I'm not to mention the fact that it disturbs everything else to do that. Oh, it's such a great learning opportunity. These are the archeo kids from the museum here. One little boy found a part of a bottle, I think. I forget what it was. It was some tiny artifact.  He was thrilled. It was real. He found it. Everybody recognized his effort, and this is the kind of learning teaching experience that is so powerful for kids. Anyway, digging along, there's a nice little buckle from a knapsack tin plate. What I think are the best. These are the wagon wheel ruts from the case on, and I believe this is carbon residue. Guys, am I right about this from the cannon? Anybody? Yeah? All right. And this is a close-up of that feature. It's gone now. It was under a sorority house, so it's gone. But then these things, and he said, what are all these little twists of wire? What is that? If you look at the friction primers, that's what they used to ignite the charge for the cannon. And then all these little things would be just thrown away, but look at all of them there on site. This shows you, the cannon wasn't just there. They were fighting the cannon. We know that from the historic record, but here it is, proved positive in the artifacts. This is, this is kind of sad, I think. I don't know. It's just a little marble. A lot of these guys are teenagers.  So it's, you know, you gotta do something to pass the time. This is a beautiful piece of pottery that is from South Carolina, Georgia area. It's very distinctive edge field proper pottery. It's called, and people who know the details of it can place it geographically. We know the troops in the trenches were from Georgia, South Carolina. We know that Brevard, let's see the guy, Joseph Brevard, who's the general? He's first and second name. And he's staying at Crescent Bend. Kershaw, thank you. Joseph Brevard Kershaw. He was from South Carolina. He's staying at Crescent Bend. We know his troops were part of those manning the trenches and this geographically fits what we know from that. Now, when you look at this and you say, okay, out of the ground and out of the attic, we have some of these beautiful buckles here and they're much prettier than the one that came out of the ground. But basically all we know about this one is somebody donated it to us. This one we now was found in a Confederate trench in Knoxville, Tennessee. But that trench was open for about 10 days in 1863. And you think, well, why is it that Confederates are, why do they have a belt buckle from the Union? Well, they need it. Everybody needs belts. Oh, the pants up. But the supplies for the Confederates are running low and they probably just found a belt buckle that worked. And we have heard that the, if you turn it upside down and you'll see that in our case. It does not say US, it says SN. And that stands for Southern Nation. And so this belt buckle could be very functional and still not give away any credit to the other side. This is the exhibit outside. If you haven't stopped to see it, please do that. And I just want to talk a little bit about this. Mining for artifacts. We were at Fort Higley one time, a bunch of us looking at driving down the road. And across the road, there were about five men with metal detectors walking in a row, sweeping. This stuff is valuable. You can get online and you can sell it. And people do. I want to show you this picture. I'm not going to tell you where to go to find it, but it's, whoops, all of this stuff came from Knoxville sites recently. And it's for sale on eBay. Not eBay, it's a private site. Although people do sell artifacts on eBay, there's a huge amount of trade with artifacts that are, so everybody says now, everybody's smart enough to say, I got it on private property with the owner's permission. And maybe they did. We don't know. But what we do know archeologically is when you pop all this stuff out of the ground and sell it as an entity without the context, without the story, without everything else that goes along with it, that our community loses. This is Knoxville's story. And everybody of course likes Civil War artifacts. You could buy mini-balls at Cracker Barrel. There are a ton of mini-balls out there, and it's not that any one mini-ball is all that significant. But if it's the mini-ball that took down General Sanders in our town, in a place and time that we know, it becomes significant.  And so that's the end. Three o'clock. Any questions? Yes. I don't know. I don't know. If there's federal money involved, they should be. But if it's just private, it's not required. Yes? Yes, it is. Library of Congress has many maps online. And you can go and find that particular map. It was published in the 1890s as a part of the official atlas that goes along with the records. And it's easily, you can download a copy of it. But just to promote ourselves a little bit, the overlay, present day maps, they're available upstairs. Any other questions? Yes? Well, the Legacy Parks Foundation is all about preservation, conservation, taking. We can't go back and undo what's been done already. But that land will never be built on. There will be no further encroachment on what's there already. As for planning to excavate, if there's a part, there are some visible earthworks, that sort of thing. There are no plans to do any further excavation of what's there. In fact, most of things now that are left as they have become over 150 years if they haven't been disturbed, it's not going to deteriorate very much more than now. And that's like, there were no structures, but there may well be artifacts and a distribution. However, there has not been a plan put into place to go after any of those. Mm-hmm, uh-huh. Yeah. Oh, it was. That's right. Yes, absolutely. It is saved. It is absolutely saved. Legacy Parks did that for us. Much local money contributed to do that. No, it is now part of Noxville Heritage. Question? I don't know of any studies done there. I do know that about the Underground Railroad, there was a very good publication put out at the state level by our state historian about underground railroad activity in the state of Tennessee. Of course, coming from the deep south to get to Ohio, you pretty much have to go through Tennessee. And one of the things that he emphasized over and over is it was secret. It wasn't well documented. People did not name names, and it's difficult to go after that history. But one of the things was that perhaps Perez Dickinson, being the abolitionist that we now think he's not, had a tunnel down to the river so that people could come and get off boats and come through the tunnels and have safety at his house. But of course, any of those homes along the river, if you go to Bleak House or Crescent Bend, everybody's in even Maybury-Hazen House, somebody will tell you, oh yeah, there's an old tunnel down to the river. But it's always somebody's friend who has been in that tunnel, or I've never really had it confirmed that there is that tunnel connection to the river. And to answer your question specifically, there has not been any archaeology done that. But it is very early. But African-American Church? Yes, yes. And if I had more time, and I was going to try to blunt mention Charlie Faulkner, who has done amazing work preserving and excavating and a lot of it on its own time and effort has dug at Blunt Mansion and Ramsey House, I'm not sure who did the work at Maybury-Hazen House. But again, that was in the early 90s. And you can see some of the artifacts up there on display that came out of the ground. But right now, I don't know of any particular plans in the works to do more. Yes? It was the Higley Cabin site. And it's part of the Fort Higley property. Yeah, I kind of missed that one. Well, yeah, so many of the things that we try to project into the past from today, we're not going to get absolutely correct. That's true. George? Fort Stanley has been purchased by Aslan Foundation. Fort Stanley is saved. And Fort Hant Stanley will be interpreted and probably will be a part of that 1,000 acres so that it will be accessible to the whole community. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. It's everywhere. There's a huge, huge show in Nashville every year.  Civil War artifacts are, there are many, many of them. And it's a huge, there are many levels of how that interferes with communities' heritage. Yes? I don't know the answer to that. But certainly, as part of the university, we would appreciate seeing that. Mike, please. You're working on it. Mike works for ARL, Archaeological Research Lab, which is UT's archaeology professional group, and the ones who did our wonderful work at Morgan Hill and at Higley Cabinside. All right, we're starting to lose people. So I probably better call a halt to this. But I'd be glad to talk to you afterwards. Thank you very much for coming. Come back next month. Thank you.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I am back with another fortnight video and today I bring you 10 Amazing weapons come to fortnight battle royale before we get into that people. I am giving away 2800 vbox to win simply subscribe to the channel for your new round here Hit that bell button to turn notifications on drop a like and a video leave a comment down below I pick and contact winners via direct message. So good luck guys Now according to official fortnight battle royale game files, which have been data mined we have found Upcoming new weapons now these data mines are 99.9% correct and the weapons We have previously covered such as the hunting rifle that every shotgun have been added into the game So we see no reason why these won't be added in the future too. So let's get into it Okay So first up we have the M249 saw an assault weapon a slow fire and high impact Automatic rifle with a large magazine Now this weapon is available within the save the world game mode as you can see on screen now a monster of power But let down by slow rate of fire. Some what accurate would definitely be effective at medium ranges This will come in that rare and epic rarities by the way next up We have the FNP 90 a machine pistol now this I can imagine being a great weapon to use at close ranges a lot like the current close range full-auto weapons actually a lot more effective than people give them credit for Now this I will come in that rarity No, the variant has been found within the data mined files Next up we have the assault weapons slug under hammer crush Now this is a weapon found in the save the world game mode also It's a rifle that fires slugs with high damage and impact It has great accuracy, but a relatively slow rate of fire Now I can't say 100% that how these weapons work in the save the world game mode will cross over into the battle Obviously changes will be made to said weapons. We do find within a change the world game mode Now this hammer crush will be of that legendary rarity And I definitely look forward to using this for sure next up We have the moab launches a tiny rocket that makes a big boom now This again is available within the save the world game mode now I believe this will work much like the gun a launch but offering a much bigger bank But holding a limited ammo or shots the mother of all bombs makes it sound like a game change And it could just be that this mob is of that legendary rarity Next up we have the light machine gun. Okay, so this thing seems like it will be a monster Much like the minigun a heavy gun with high damage and extreme rate of fire and a huge magazine Very inaccurate unless aiming down starts from a fixed position and firing in short bursts So with this description is it stating you can fix these two things? That would be new for sure Imagine if when the runway also makes you slower too Mechanics which are changed via the weapon you use sounds great to me This light machine gun will come in that legendary and epic rarities Next up we have the tactical assault rifle This legendary variant assault weapon is full auto It's flexible and capable of handling all types of combat scenarios High rate of fire with solid accuracy when aiming down starts and firing in controlled bursts Now for me weapons as such are needed I mean we have a couple of decent auto rifles but just not enough Besides shotguns they are not that the most used Might even be used modern shotguns therefore but it could be the case I just feel weapons for overall combat in all different battle scenarios are needed This and a few others we've seen and will see will fit in nicely in my opinion Next up we have the egg launcher Now this weapon there just isn't much known about it It's definitely though a part of the battle with our rifles When is it coming? Where is it coming? If it's going to be a part of a limited time game mode Much like the mod might be we just don't know yet This though I think will act like the grenade launcher But instead of firing grenades it will fire eggs These eggs no doubt won't damage you But maybe they'll stick it to spot Maybe slow you down Limit your building etc for a few seconds It makes sense because we don't really have characters for much in this game This could be one of a new theme of weapons introduced to the game To counter such things We will see people Rarity this thing I believe is not known yet Next up we have the explosive crossbow This epic variant shoots an arrow with an explosive tip Your enemy's worst nightmare For me I believe this will act much like the crossbows in game now By exploding an impact causing damage to nearby enemies and structures Having a crossbow that explodes but does nothing the standard crossbow doesn't do Is pretty pointless so there has to be something extra with this thing And I believe an area of effect damage output Is in my opinion what this thing will offer Next up we have the precision rifle And a stock weapon that fires tight bursts That allows for precise targeting in mobile midrange engagements Deals good damage but consumes its magazine very quickly This weapon comes in legendary epic and rare variants Now we all know of the burst AR in the game right now For me it's very inconsistent Sometimes it works amazingly Other times I can't hit things not even moving that are right in front of me I know a balloon comes into play a lot But with burst weapons it feels much worse Because of that pause between the shots you get I was hoping this burst weapon is much like the burst weapon we have in game now But shoots much quicker If this is the case though I doubt its range will be as good But we will see people we will see And lastly we have the airstrike laser Mark a location to deliver an airstrike with a 4 bomb payload This legendary weapon I feel will work much like the airstrike works In the save the world game mode Mark that location pull that trigger and wait This I can see being really useful in battle royale But I do believe if it is common it will be introduced into a Limited time game mode first before it's put into the standard Battle royale playlists I could be wrong here though Now I know what many of you will be thinking This seems a little OP I thought the same at first but we know how epic role This I guarantee you won't be as effective as you might think I think each range will be real limited in two ways At a distance you can mark a target A natural explosive area of effect damage it deals I also definitely think as well It will also warn enemies Or they will get some kind of indication Which lets them know that this thing is coming So they can get out there It will be great for clearing out buildings though People build and camp in I actually can't wait to see this thing in the game Should be epic for sure And guys that is it 10 amazing weapons coming to you for tonight Battle Royale Let me know which from this list you are most looking forward to If you enjoyed the video leave a like I hope it does help me out Thanks as always for stopping by as always If you're new around here and enjoy what you just saw Be sure to subscribe Again thanks for stopping by And hopefully people will see you on the next one


Aaron Lee Ralston was born on October 27, 1975 in Ohio, but the mountains of Colorado attracted his family to move when he was just a kid. And Aaron began tackling the mountains when he was only 11 years old. He went to university and got a degree in engineering. After graduating, Aaron moved to Aspen, Colorado and pursued a life of rock climbing. On Saturday, April 26, 2003, without telling anyone his plans, Aaron packed his hiking boots, a hydration system, his backpack, climbing equipment and notably, a pocket-sized utility tool, put his mountain bike in the back of a truck and drove almost 5 hours to a remote part of Utah. Aaron went hiking alone near Robbers Roost while exploring the canyons alone in Utah. He fell through a narrow slot canyon. During the fall, a boulder came loose and peened his arm against the canyon wall, preventing him from being able to move. Aaron then made several futile attempts to chip away the boulder with his utility knife, but it was already reasonably blunt. And this just made it worse. The first night, as darkness descended on the Utah canyon lands, Aaron realized just how alone he was. Aaron was able to survive the incident with some food and a bottle of water, which kept him alive in the desert heat canyon for the next five and a half days, which is 127 hours. He struggled to get free to no success, but he was able to use some tools he had brought with him to get loose, but the way Aaron escaped was too gruesome. He began amputating his arm. That was an incredible tale of survival. Aaron managed to amputate his arm to set himself free. Covered in blood, he began marching out of the canyon until he was found by a family that went out hiking. The family called the emergency services that saved Aaron. Hollywood later brought Aaron's story and made a fantastic film about Aaron's accident and they called it 127 hours. After how long he spent, trapped in there. Aaron had actually filmed himself with his own video camera as he was trapped, so the filmmakers were able to witness the real-life footage. Since the accident, Aaron had been back to Blue John Canyon with friends. He has kept climbing and became the first person to climb all 59 of Colorado's mountain peaks on his own. Today, Aaron is a millionaire with an estimated net worth of $4 million. Think about this. Most people in Aaron's shoes would have given up. Most people would have let go of their life, but Aaron was courageous and willing to fight for his life. As you woke up this morning, regardless of whatever you're facing right now, your only hope is to remain determined, to be committed to victory or freedom at all cost. William Faulkner once wrote, You cannot swing for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. You cannot achieve your dream except you're able to focus on what it means to achieve it. You have to stop seeing the present pains and woes. You have to focus on the future and be willing to fight hard until you get there. The author of The Alchemist, Paulo Coleo, said an I quote, Be brave, take risks, nothing can substitute experience. As you woke up this morning, be determined to face your goal with courage, be willing to attempt the unknown, to dare the difficult, and to try what most people want. And for someone who would say, But I've tried all I could and have lost all my strength, well, here's what Napoleon Bonaparte had to say. Courage isn't having the strength to go on. It is going on when you don't have the strength. The genuinely courageous people of those who go on despite having no strength to go on. Don't forget to share this video and subscribe to our channel. We love you.


You're tuned into the COVID-19 Community Report here on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM in Davis, California. I'm Autumn Lab A Renaud and today is Tuesday, September 29th, 2020. We're sharing local news and resources focusing on what's impacting Davis and nearby cities in Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. My guests today are Jesse Salinas, assessor, clerk recorder and registrar of voters for Yolo County, an artist and community organizer, NJ Vondo, about the new interactive healing art project, and we'll get to those interviews in just a few minutes. Lots of news on the COVID front locally. Yolo Public Health announced last week it had appointed a new public health officer. If you've heard this before, you're not alone. There's been a process here. Beginning October 26th, Dr. Amy Sisson will serve as Yolo County's new public health officer following the retirement of Dr. Ron Chapman in June and the terms of two interim officers. She previously served as the public health officer for Placer County and comes to Yolo with a wide breadth of professional experience. She's board certified in public health and general preventive medicine and licensed by the state of California as a physician and surgeon and she's trained in epidemiology, which is mighty handy these days, and she teaches graduate students in public health. In addition to Dr. Sisson's formal public health career, she also promotes public health through her passion for urban farming. She views farming as an extension of public health efforts to increase access to healthy and affordable foods, which of course is a focus of Yolo County's Health and Human Services Agency. Sounds like a great fit for our largely agrarian county and I look forward to interviewing her at some point after she gets settled in. Today we will find out if Yolo County gets to move from the state's restricted Tier 1 purple level to Red Tier 2, under which many more types of businesses could reopen, including gyms and fitness centers, movie theaters, places of worship and indoor dining at restaurants. Each of these locations would have restrictions as to how many people would be allowed in at any given time, and by the way, nail salons are reopened as of last week. Also, schools could technically resume after two weeks of Yolo County being in the Red Tier. So far seven private elementary schools have applied for and received waivers for in-person instruction in Yolo County. No word yet of how public school districts across the county would respond to the opportunity, but really, I think it's a waiting game at this point. Over the last week, Yolo County has averaged about eight new cases per day, according to the county's online dashboard. So we're on the right track, but public health officials are concerned about a post Labor Day surge, as well as the fact that numbers are on the uptick elsewhere in California. And according to the Davis Enterprise last week, the city of Davis recorded its second COVID related deaths since the pandemic began. The report noted the individual was a woman between the ages of 75 and 84, and the city's previous and only other COVID death, which occurred early in the pandemic, also involved a woman in that age group. And as Chancellor Gary May mentioned in our interview last week, UC Davis continues to test all students moving on to campus, into campus housing and updates its COVID dashboard weekly. As of yesterday, the university reported a total of 79 positive cases total, including 29 students and 52 employees since the pandemic began. With the students back in town as of last week, it's really a waiting game to see what those numbers yield as well. You can view their data at safety services.ucdavis.edu slash coronavirus slash COVID cases. All right, let's take a moment from this music and we will be back with our first interview shortly. My first guest today is Jesse Salinas, who serves as the assessor, clerk recorder and registrar of voters at Yolo County. I want to acknowledge that his office is responsible for multiple key functions within Yolo County. But today we're going to focus on his role as registrar of voters. Jesse's team has been very busy getting out information about the changes to voting during the November 3rd cycle, and we're glad he's here to get us up to speed. Welcome, Jesse, and thank you for joining us. Hi, thank you for inviting me. So the remote voting and absentee ballots have long been available in California. On May 8th, California Governor Gavin Newsom declared California a vote by mail state, and that was to minimize voters exposure to COVID-19. I'm hoping you'll help us break down what that means for us here in Yolo County. Let's start with if you are not registered to vote or you're not sure you are, what should you do? Well, the first thing you want to do out of it is folks should check the status of the registration by going online and going to voterstatus.sos.ca.gov. That is the Secretary of State's website. We'll be able to check the status of their registration. And if for some reason they need to update their registration or even register for the first time, they can go on to registertovote.ca.gov to do that as well online. Great, and this year what is the deadline for registering? The deadline we have is October 19th to be able to get you a vote, a ballot in the mail. So that is our deadline for that process. Of course, in California there is the ability for folks to even register and vote on election day, but we want to encourage people to utilize the vote by mail option because then they can be able to vote at home and have it be very convenient for them and if they'd like, they can then drop off that on the loop with that ballot inside at either a mailbox or one of our drop box locations or even one of our voter assistance centers. Right, and we're going to talk about all of that in just a few minutes. So last week many of us got a postcard in the mail from your office and we were asked to, it was to check to see if our address and our information was correct and we were asked to return the card, but I saw a lot of chatter on Facebook. Are we supposed to return this card? So are you getting those cards back and is that process working? It sure is. We've gotten a lot of those cards returned in. For those that are wondering if I forgot to return it or I didn't return it, will that impact the ballot that will be coming in the mail to me? No, will not. This was an opportunity for us to continue to do updating of our database and our records and the same goes, no news is good news. So if we haven't heard from you, we'll assume that that was the correct address and information and you will be getting your ballot, your voter information guide and your ballot in the mail. But there were a number of people that sent in updated records for us, which was really helpful moving forward to be able to continue to clean up our database and our records for future elections as well. Sure. We're a mobile population. People move. It happens and we want to get those voters registered. All right. Now, if you are registered to vote, the number one question I'm seeing online is, when do I get my ballot? I got the thing from the state that tells me about the propositions and I'm reading up, but when do I get my ballot? So okay, so your official ballot will be we're targeting October 5th when it'll actually arrive at the West Sacramento Distribution Center. And then from there, it will be distributed out to all voters. So we're expecting that the postal services they expect anywhere from five to 10 days for that to arrive in the mail. So again, if our target date is October 5th, folks should be seeing it later that week, coming into their mailbox. And if they haven't received it by the end of October 15, they should contact our office so we can follow up with them. Okay. Do you want to give us a phone number or an email there where people can do that, please? Sure, absolutely. So you can I'm going to give you both so they can email us at Yolo elections. So I'm sorry, elections at Yolo County dot org again, elections at Yolo County dot org. Okay. That's an easiest email to send it to or if they'd like to call in, they can call it<PHONE_NUMBER>. Great. Okay, just to recap that point briefly, if you haven't received your ballot by October 15th, it's probably best to check in with Jesse's office and get the status of that so they can get you set up. All right, for the rest of us, my next question is about how and when we return our ballot and I want to add two things to that question. The first is that some people are concerned about the postal service and the act of voting by mail. So I'm curious how you're responding to those sorts of questions. Sure, there's a couple of items there. One is we have had conversations with our postal service distribution center and the leadership team here locally. We're very fortunate in Yolo County that the actual distribution center is in our county and they cover areas that go all the way up north and all the way down to Fresno, not quite to Fresno but south of Fresno, quite an area they cover but they've assured us that no equipment have been removed from the premises, from this West Sacramento premises and nor will any of the equipment be removed between now and election day. So they have a high level of confidence to be able to deliver the mail in a timely fashion. I'd also like to encourage people, if they haven't done this, to sign up for Where's My Ballot. It's a ballot track initiative that we have signed up with here in Yolo County and it's being offered statewide but you as a voter can go to California.BallotTracks and there's two T's on that, B-A-L-L-O-T-T-R-A-X.net forward slash voter and you can sign up so that you can track your ballot as it comes through our process. So the nice thing is when you put it in the mail it'll be identified as being received by the postal service and we'll give you an update that's been received by the postal service and then as it comes into our office and we've received it we will scan it and be able to tell you and you could have either an email, a call made to you, or even a text message telling you that your ballot has been received by our office and then it'll even tell you once we've processed it and if the signature is verified and it's all being prepared for scanning and future tallying and we've completed that process it'll tell you when that's done so people can have a high sense of confidence that they've seen where the ballot, their ballot is in the process and if we have issues we will reach out directly with the information we have if there's a signature issue or for example if people have forgotten to sign their envelope that we can reach out to them to make sure we cure that matter in a timely fashion. Okay that's a lot of tracking going on and that's good news I imagine that will set some minds at ease. Another thing I wanted to mention just real quickly is that voting by mail no postage is necessary correct? Correct. Postage is prepaid. We've taken care of all of that so we just have to put it in the mail and it will be delivered to us. Great so no barriers there. Before we get into talking about voter assistance centers and drop-offs and all of that I have a couple of other questions. Just so everyone can be clear what is a provisional ballot? So a provisional ballot is an option that's available for voters if there's an issue that there may be some conflict with their registration process so for example and we have some of these in Yolo County because of students are a good example of that. If a student has come in and they are not necessarily clear on terms of the the election process there's an ability for them to always vote provisionally if for some reason they for example have put in a if they're not sure if they voted in their home their home residents back at home let's say they live in Los Angeles as an example you know there are some students that aren't quite sure if they voted or not and they're like I think I might have voted vote by mail I don't know if I turned it in or not and so at that point we allow them to vote provisionally because we have the ability to check if in fact they voted already because whatever you cast that first vote is what counts and if you accidentally and sometimes people do accidentally cast a second ballot if they're not already in the system and having identified that that's been processed we will let them vote provisionally because we don't want to disenfranchise people they legitimately do have an opportunity to vote but at the same time we want to make sure they're not voting twice okay that's what the provisional process allows for great thank you for explaining that all right let's spend a minute talking about remote accessible vote by mail system ravm so their remote accessible voting system is really it it's designated to really provide additional assistance for people who may need additional accommodation and and it's really very helpful in that extent for individuals who aren't able to let's say use a standard paper ballot process it also can be used for for folks that are overseas and have unique situations where they may not have access to certain items that the mail may not work for them yeah they may be deployed for example yes deployed or they could be and some of the in this is again a uniquely kind of Davis experience that we have students that are maybe studying abroad and maybe in very remote regions where they can't have access to to mail getting to them easily so we need to find other ways of allowing them to be able to vote abroad so there's lots of unique experiences that we encounter here in yellow county that we want to make sure of those who are eligible to vote still have that opportunity and that's just another service that we provide as well great and everything we're talking about today folks is on the the website at yellowcountyelections.org correct yes all right before we run out of time here we have two more important things to talk about so first I want to tell you that I am a person who loves to vote my polling place has always been at the elementary school my children attended I love taking them in with me and showing them what voting it was about and how important it was and so you know I'm I'm I'm definitely aware of a little loss going on for some of us who really love going in and doing that in person there will be no neighborhood polling places but you will have something called voter assistance centers so what are those and what types of assistance will be offered okay thank you sharing that with your your listeners yes we are no longer able to provide the neighborhood polling places and this is as a result of emergency legislation that was introduced it was first an executive order and then follow up legislation to make sure we can provide in-person voting to to compliment the fact that every voter will get a ballot in the mail and so these these centers that we call voter assistance centers will be opened up starting Saturday October 31st through Monday November 2nd from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and so we wanted to make sure that they were before election day that they were open for three days consistent with state law that just recently was of course all day election day from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and the purpose of these locations is to allow people additional days to walk in and vote and hopefully if they want to vote a little early a few days early to vote any to avoid any lines or crowds that may exist on election day itself and in addition these centers have large large locations so that we can ensure people safety for purposes of of the physical distance requirements that we need to meet as a result of COVID-19 so the locations that we have in Davis and I'm gonna quickly go over them because they are very large locations that you'll probably all be familiar with because those who live in Davis have at one point or another probably have heard of these locations or in her interacted with these community look key locations and the first one is Pat won elementary school we're gonna be using the multi-purpose room and that's over it to to to to shaft to drive in Davis and the other one is Montgomery elementary school okay multi-purpose room and that's at 1441 Danbury Street and of course in the more downtown area we've got the Veterans Memorial Center and that's their multi-purpose room right and that's at 203 East 14th Street and there I'm sorry they're a total of we're about to run out of time so I want to say there are a total of 12 centers throughout the county and they're all of all is everything's listed on on the website yeah I hate to round up our time together because you've just given us a wealth of information and I know you're an incredibly busy person so thank you so much for coming on and sharing your knowledge with us we really appreciate it Jesse all right take good care again that was Jesse Salinas with yellow elections and his one of his roles is as our county's registrar of voters go to yellow elections org for all those sites for everything we talked about and I will be back in just a minute with the next interview all right again I really appreciate it Jesse Salinas coming on and talking about elections with us okay NJ Vando is a writer an artist in music visual arts and theater and a pop-up bookstore owner and community organizer based in Davis California she curates multiculturalism rocks a blog that celebrates cultural diversity in children's literature and today we're speaking about her latest effort the interactive healing art project here in Davis welcome NJ hi thank you so much for having me on on the show appreciate it it's my pleasure all right so what is the interactive healing art project and what moved you to begin putting this together so the interactive healing art project acronym has is a collaboration between artists and community members and the local business owners as well so we're focusing on healing and I'm asking artists what healing looks like to them and the answer you know with the major of their choice whether it's a collage or photography a painting and some people are even making short films so lots of very original answers and then those are being shared on businesses windows downtown but also outside of the downtown area and the community members are at the same question so they can submit a piece of art but they also we have writing prompts so we're asking inviting people to share a lot of encouragement for anyone who needs it and also we are asking you know what is a change that they would like to see in the world right this moment so those answers yeah so those answers are printed and last day that displayed alongside an art piece of artwork on businesses and we have an online platform as well a website that will be a virtual gallery where people who cannot you know physically leave their house will still be able to be to enjoy the project and to just be a part of it so it's a community effort really okay and you and I have talked about this a little bit before but what's the impetus behind it right we all know there's a lot going on but but you had some interesting things to say about why you wanted to bring this to the community yes it's I've been very concerned about the mental toll that's all that we're dealing with is you know taking on us so I don't need to name it but I mean there is COVID-19 we've been confined since March we've had to put on masks and limited in a lot of what we can do and we all under a lot of stress for various reasons we have the you know social protest that are going on we there's some uncertainty about the future political future lots of lives have been changed because of that and then just mentally I think it's important to acknowledge that it's off on us and we not all dealing with it in the same way we don't all have access to the same tool we don't all have access to people who can support us and hear us and again as a community this is a pretty tight sound there's a good sense of community here and around and I thought it would be not just interesting but very comforting if we're able to hear from each other and even if you don't know each other you know if we able to to reach out to each other in that way I also want to emphasize that how I think sometimes tend to be undervalued yeah and the loop for all the benefit that it actually brings to our life and especially to our mental health so that was also the driving force you know behind the project like kind of a knowledge out for the place that really has no life and the fact that in my humble opinion we cannot live without it like you take out music if you take out you know visual art etc I think I don't want to say that you know I don't know I don't know how to express it but it's just gonna be very hard on that yeah now I think you've expressed it well and you're also you're really expressing what we talk about in in arts alliance circles about art playing the role of second responder you know after the crisis after the the horrible events art has a way of coming in and healing people so you're you're really walking that that talk here so what is the timeline and how do businesses get involved when does this unfold thank you for asking that question so right now we are accepting submissions from artists and then from community members and you're also talking with several business owners the project is going is going like on October 21st and then one week before that from the 14th we would like to have as many artwork and messages from our community members as possible okay so the website is doing live on the 21st when you work downtown you'll be able to see artwork already on several business windows and but the project itself will go on until the first week of January okay so and then during that time we will keep accepting artwork and we inviting anyone also looking at the art whether online or in person to send a message great you know they have yeah so let's let's give the website it's davishealingartproject.com that's not quite live yet but there is a Facebook page and event I believe by the same name if you start typing in interactive healing on Facebook it'll pop right up for you it did for me today and then can you also tell us the URL for your blog so Multiculturalism Rocks is a platform that highlights especially voices of color so we're focusing on how diverse culturally diverse our world is and the goal has always been to give more visibility to black indigenous and creators of color but I also to bring us all together as a community as opposed to I feel like sometimes when I read the news major there is so much division in the way some stories are reported and in the way our cultures I think portrayed so we really aim to just provide more knowledge but also more fun and also highlight the wonderful work that is out there and I know we at the end of our time together but I want to give a shout out to all the businesses already reach out to David Mediacos, Scott, Sherty, Mishka, Stem's Gallery and many others I thank you all for supporting this project. Great and we'll we'll get some of that highlighted in the blog post too and Jay thanks so much for your time and for bringing this work to Davis we really appreciate it. Thank you all time and thank you KTRD. Alright take care. Alright folks that is our time for this week another episode has gone by episode 30 oh I don't know 37 I think we're at this is Audemars Bay Renaud live from the KTRT studio this has been the COVID-19 community report


On Wednesday, May 10th, Pikeville Medical Center partnered with the utility management group in order to serve handmade lunches to all 3,000-plus employees at their main facility. Employees from every department gathered in the outdoor plaza to grab some food and enjoy their company. The free lunch day is part of the ongoing hospital week celebration. Partnership with Pikeville Medical Center has been a great opportunity for both the hospital and utility management group. We're just happy to partnership with them to show the employee appreciation day with serving them lunch here, barbecue, both Pikeville Medical Center's employees and UMG's employees. We're just happy to partnership with them and serve the employees at Pikeville Medical Center. Cancer. It's a very scary word, but an outstanding treatment facility was here at home. I was led to the Lawson Cancer Center. As a nurse practitioner at the Lawson Cancer Center, we are champions for our patients. I am so happy for Robert. The treatment worked. May considers the opportunity to work alongside PMC a privilege. Through their collaboration, everyone was able to enjoy lunch and feel appreciated for their hard work. We do some work with PMC in their maintenance department and other departments. PMC is the biggest part of our community here and a big economic driver. And without PMC, you know, I think we'd struggle. And so we're just happy to partner with them. We're happy to do whatever we can. And to have a world-class hospital in this region is very important to all of us. Appreciate the PMC and Donovan for allowing us to be a part of the Employee Appreciation Week and we look forward to just maybe doing it again in the future. So we're just having a wonderful time out here interacting with employees of the Pico Medical Center and our employees. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.


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