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NEWS: 22 July 2008 If you've e-mailed me in the last couple of days and haven't had a reply, please e-mail me again. Several recent messages were lost before I could get to them. 20 May 2008 I belong to the Capital Area Camera Club, and this year's annual members' show, "Mystic Maine Waters," is now installed (until 13 June) at the L/A Arts Community Gallery in Lewiston, Maine. My photograph entitled "The Dam" (taken with 35mm Ilford SFX, scanned and printed digitally with HP archival-quality paper and inks) is on view there and can also be seen on the online gallery for the show. It is available for sale. Anyone interested in purchasing a print can contact me through the link above.  4 May 2008Yet another speaking engagement! This time I have been kindly invited to present a slide show to the Current Events Club. The Club was founded in 1892 in Gardiner, Maine by alumnae of a weekly history class held from 1882 to 1890 by Laura E. Richards, who later won a Pulitzer Prize for the biography she and her sister wrote about their mother, Julia Ward Howe. The Fogler Library at the University of Maine states that "The purpose of the Club is to promote intellectual development and discussion of current events." That I will try to do, with my presentation "Visiting Egypt: Selected Notes from Two Archaeological Journeys, 2002 & 2007." 
26 April 2008I have posted the table of contents for Otherworldly Maine on the anthology's home page. So go take a look at what you have to look forward to at the end of the summer... (What else have I been up to? See the Old News page.) RECENT BLOG POST: 24 October 2007 Wednesday A Private Audience with the King Subject: Egyptology, Mummymania September 11, 2002, while most of my fellow Americans were commemorating the first anniversary of that most awful day, I was walking in the nearly deserted Valley of the Kings. Other tourists were there, to be sure, but in no great numbers. Americans were scarce on the ground, and Egyptians tended to be shocked (and pleased, once they recovered) to be encountering an American. I had traveled from England to Egypt as part of a mixed group of tourists, mostly British, but the Netherlands and South Africa were also represented among us. In the hotels and on the sites we passed Germans, French, Italians, and Japanese, but encountered no Americans until a few days later, when I ran into one filming the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. But all tourists, it seemed, were not as thick on the ground as they might have been -- certainly compared to January of this year. Under other circumstances, I expect that my visit to the tomb of Tutankhamun would have been very different.  Entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1920s-30s
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About Me
I am a writer, editor, and consultant with graduate degrees in Egyptology and nautical archaeology. As you'll discover when you learn more about my fiction, Egyptology deeply informs the stories I write, and the use of ancient Egypt as a source of inspiration in modern times--whether for novelists, architects, decorative arists, poets, or philosophers--is a particular interest of mine. If it interests you too, please explore my other web site:  My literary agent is Vaughne Lee Hansen of the Virginia Kidd Literary Agency  The Clydesdale Plantation Vessel, port side; along the banks of the Savannah River, South Carolina, near Savannah, Georgia: photograph by Frederick M. Hocker, courtesy of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, copyright 1992. |
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