USF Professor on NatGeo

[GaUSFBull]

Watched "The Real George Washington: Revealed" tonight and Dr. Philip Levy was one of the experts on it. He was part of an archaeological dig at Washington's childhood home (not Mt. Vernon).

Here's a link to his bio: http://history.usf.edu/faculty/levy/

Very interesting show, as a student of history, I really enjoyed it.

[JTrue]

I worked on that dig for two seasons. My interviews got left on the cutting room floor, but I make a few appearances in his book.

[GaUSFBull]

I worked on that dig for two seasons. My interviews got left on the cutting room floor, but I make a few appearances in his book.

Very cool. Did you personally uncover anything of note?

[JTrue]

It was a messy site. You had GW's house there from the 18th century, a Civil War battlefield crossing through it from a century later, and then people living on the site all the way through the 1900s. There was always stuff in the ground being pulled out. Pipes, pottery, nails, bullets, animal bones, the occasional native American artifact.

[JTrue]

http://www.kenmore.org/ferryfarm/archaeology/wash_house.html

 

If you look at the picture toward the bottom of the page, I was there the two summers when the cellar (top center of the site picture with GW's house outline) was excavated. That was pretty cool.

[GaUSFBull]

That is very cool.  Great life experience. 

[JTrue]

When I'm teaching, I tell the kids I have academic street cred with every walk of life because of this dig. I'm in a published book, National Geographic, on YouTube, and in a Wikipedia article. That covers just about everybody.