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W: To Florida.

G: She is working on her doctorate in anthropology at Florida.

W: So you are all living down

G: We're all living down in old air force quarters in Sebring, little apartments. Our

 son was born there and really, we had money in the bank at the end of that first year.

 It was years and years and years before we really felt quite as comfortable,that

 initial year because the rent was virtually nothing, fifty dollars a month or something

 like that. The living was pretty easy, but the program we worked out of there for the

 various other digs. Our first dig, though, was right near there. And that was a, kind

 of an accident. Local people knew that we were there, it had been in the papers and

 we had gone to Rotarys and things like that and a Mr. Goodenow, who owned a ranch,

 land there, had a mound on his property which people had dug in and glass beads had

 turned up and so

W: So it was an historic site

G: And so it was an historic site, so we went out and we looked at it and we decided that,

 yes, that's be good to dig. We both, Hale and I, had been interested in, as I said

 earlier, the direct historic approach to archeology. His Crable site had had some

 contact materials in it. I had gotten interested in various stuff in the literature

 on the, not really historical archeology, but contact archeology. So, we were both

 kind of eager to dive into that mound. Furthermore we were both kind of eager to dive

 into that mound. Furthermore, it was obvious from the bone in it that it was a burial

 mound. And remember, in that period, even though it had been proved that the indiansa

 built mounds, burial mounds, back in the Cyrus Thomas days, there still wasn't too

 much certainly on the historic period burial mound data. I'm sure burials with trade

 goods, not of burial mounds such as shown in Des Moines

W: Or described in 4A pjg\

G: Right, so we decided to dig that mound and we did. And it was a rather difficult job.

 It had been pretty badly pitted. The sand was powder soft when it dried out at all with