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W: So you, another one of the Kincaid

G: Yeah, the last season.

W: The last season.

G: And that was a season in which we had relatively few students and supervisors,

 graduate student supervisors and a very large WPA crew.

W: So you got your hand into a little WPA work.

G: Yeah.

W: Just at the end.

G: Just at the very end. Cause that was the very end. It was the end of the summer and

 that December came Pearl Harbor.

W: So, you got your master's and you started looking for work?

G: Yes, and the first one that showed any interest was Kalamazoo Public Museum. Gee, I'm

 glad I didn't get that job. Take it. And of course it was right after the war and no one

 knew what to ask for salary since they were still kind of frozen at the pre-war level

 which meant $1800. a year sounded like a good starting salary. And I had in

 the preceding year, '46, I had come down to Florida and given a paper at the Florida

 Historical Society meeting here in St. Augustine and had talked on the direct

 historical approach to archeology. That was another prominent trend of the period.

 People forget about a little bit hno. d<- d-.. b, and byf strong and their

 direct historic approach, and

W: Wasn't Stewart in on that too?

G: Yeah, yeah right. Stewart V.e,) a was in on it. So, I gave that paper and

 that was really I guess the reason that I got back to Florida and the job, because

 Carl Bickle was getting himself into the presidency of the Florida Historical Society

 for one major purpose--he wanted an archeological program established in Florida, and

 as president of the Florida Historical Society, he felt that he could create a-crisis,

 an emergency and that his friend, the governor, could then use his emergency funds to

 start a program of this sort.