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G: down in Florida now that you should get in touch with. His name's John Griffin and

 his address is State Park. So, that whole thing had occurred, but

 wasn't published yet before So we had, and that, of course,

 when you come back to it, yeah, that is what made this Daena conference so important.

 At least, to us who were working in the area, it was really the first chance of all of

 us kind of getting together and putting all this unpublished stuff together. Now

 Griffin had, didn't make the meeting. > had been to New Haven and worked with Rouse

 some on that. Willy was in a slightly different circuit, but had had contact with him

 alright. But except that maybe sitting down over drinks at an actual meeting or

 something like that, nobody had been down to the saz^ -,, talking about all these

 things together.

W: So in a sense, the '49 meeting was an expansion or just a...

G: An expansion, yeah, of that, and more formal because outsiders were invited by the

 college and so forth to be there, so we had some more formal type of events, reception

 for the president ,,

W: But at least

G: Didn't drink.

W: But you were at least together so, like, late hours of the night you could still be

 sitting around discussing

G: Well, actually the early meetings of the, any of the meetings of the Florida

 Anthropological Society almost served that function too except we didn't get as many

 of the outsiders coming in ---- Travel money just wasn't all that

 easy. But we did get, S c.,,r and then the southeast conference

 provided another place to get together.

W: I noticed that Goodenow mound, excavations were written up and it became a

 oh, anthropological paper number one.

G: Contributions to the archeology of Florida number one, of which number two and three

 never appeared.