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Wednesday, April 22, 2009


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Staff photos by DARWIN WEIGEL


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Collin O'Mealy, 11, left, and his sister Casey, 8, get a lesson in screening dirt Saturday from public archaeology assistant Alex Glass of Lusby.


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Carolyn Gryczkowski, left, of the Lost Towns Project and Lisa Robbins of Historic London Town and Gardens in Edgewater promote their historic site to Vivian and Edward Portner of Port Republic and John Fiveash, president of the Archaeology Society of Maryland.


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Jim Jordan served as docent for the wagon rides to the Indian Village and the St. Leonard archaeological site.


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The effigy post at the Indian Village at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum in St. Leonard.


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Indian Village manager Tim Thoman, left, demonstrates flint lapping (making sharp flint tools) Saturday.

Macray Murray, 7, of Odenton gets a lesson in deerskin scraping with stone tools Saturday from Indian Village manager Tim Thoman at the Discovering Archaeology day at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum in St. Leonard.

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