Bragg Family South

This weekend, instead of driving up to Little Rock to participate in an archeological dig, I dug in the Monticello area. Some weeks ago Hope had found out that the city was planning to spruce up the square in downtown Monticello. This area, which is a small park with a fountain and benches, is technically owned by Drew County, and was the site of a courthouse built in 1870 and torn down in the early 1930s. We (myself and the Arkansas Archeological Survey archeologists from Monticello) were curious to determine what (if anything) remained of this courthouse. We secured permission from the city and county to excavate a small area on the town square, and on Friday after I returned from my North Carolina business trip, we set about excavating. Below, Kenny and Arkansas Archeological Survey archeologist Jessica Howe consider the 2 meter by 2 meter (roughly 6 foot by 6 foot) excavation unit that has been staked out: In the picture above, Kenny is "screening" the dirt we have d...

No, Stephen, don't touch that camera lens...!!! Arggghhhhh !! No damage done--at least not as much as when we tipped the canoe and soaked the camera... I figured since it has been about a month since our last post, and I didn't want to get a reputation as a blog-slacker, I should update this before I go on a business trip to North Carolina this weekend... We have been pretty busy this last month, between my work duties, our child-related duties (such as taking pictures of the younger kids while attending Kenny's baseball games, as seen in the picture above), and our other hobbies. Below is a picture of Stephen, who got to tag along with Hope and Beth to a field trip Beth's preschool class took to the nature center in Pine Bluff, Arkansas: Below is a picture of Beth hamming it up with Stephen and some of her friends at one of the exhibits at the nature center: I've been on several trips to Little Rock to help on that archeological dig there. Below is a pictu...