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G: he insisted that all of his teachers read TIirart. !Idie. So,

W: Is that how you really got interested in anthropology there, or

G: Yes. I think through reading those books in high school library.

W: That's really neat. I didn't realize that.

G: Plus, of course, seeing the, some of the sights, the green mound just south of Daytona.

 I knew from early childhood jTk-. what a big shelley looked like. I went out on one

 occasion with what I now know were pot hunters, and we dipped into a burial mound near

 the Tomoka River which looked like a battlefield already. It was full of pits and holes

 and bones laying around. That was my first experience of actually seeing a site. Of

 course at about that time also, I did see the Ormond Mound being excavated by the

 Smithsonian or the, it was FERA team and I believe

W: Was that Sterling?

G: Well, Sterling was in charge of the program, but I think Jesse Jennings was in charge

 of that particular excavation and of course I wouldn't have known that at that time,

 and then of course, Gordon Willy wrote it up and published it in the EAE series later.

 So I must have seen just a

W: At an early age?

G: At an early age,without any tie to it. Also, still while I was in high school, I went

 up to Jacksonville one time to hear Servanus Morley give a lecture. His sister,

 Elizabeth Towers, had told my mother that her brother was going to give a lecture up

 there so we went up to hear him. It was, that was interesting and it didn't turn me into

 a Afayanist, but still, it was a little bit more of the impetus toward archeology.

 However, at the time I left high school, I was not really settled on archeology per se.

 I was interested in many of the natural history type of subjects and practically any

 ology could have been the one, I suppose. I was told, early I'm sure when I got to

 college, that this was no longer the nineteenth century and you couldn't be a general

 ologist", you had to be some particular type of an "ologist". Course I realize now that

 there are some people who are broadly naturalists or others, but they didn't encourage