This week we on Our History Project’s “In the Dirt with American Digger” segment we host what you would call the Beginners Guide to the Hobby of Metal Detecting. From the stores, to the machines, to the places to hunt. The contacts, groups, strategies and more, it’s all here.
So if you have ever had the question asked of you your asked just to yourself – “What do you find with that thing?” Or better yet –“How do I get me one?” Then this show is for them - or you.
Our History Project is Nonprofit and open sourced, we promote Preservation and Education of our history, and as I have always said – “That starts with you!” – and in this show we will tell you how.
If you would like this show hosted by a player on your site or your business site send me an email and I will supply the code, it’s free. It will put a player on your page just like we have on ours (nothing to install and nothing goes on your server). If you would like I can even take off the opening comments (just let me know). The main goal of this episode is to promote our hobby in a positive light and give a basic foundation on which to grow. Bringing new blood into our world of research, history and preserving artifacts can only increase our understanding of the past.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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James Everett Kibler
Our review of "The Education of Chauncey Doolittle" can be found on the Our History Project Book Review Blog. Link
From the Publisher:
“Kibler has developed a theme that has long defined both Southern history and literature: the deep, metaphysical connection between the Southern character and temperament and the natural world . . . a graceful articulation of the agrarian vision.” ––Walter Sullivan
“In James Everett Kibler we find a member of a quickly diminishing breed: the man of letters.” ––Southern Partisan
James Everett Kibler is a novelist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he teaches popular courses in Southern literature, examining such figures as William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Wendell Berry, and Larry Brown. Born and raised in upcountry South Carolina, Kibler spends much of his spare time tending to the renovation of an 1804 plantation home and the reforestation of the surrounding acreage. This home served as the subject of his first book, Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction in 1999 and the Southern Heritage Society’s Award for Literary Achievement.
Kibler received his doctorate from the University of South Carolina, and his poetry has been honored by the Poetry Society of South Carolina and has appeared in publications throughout the country. In October 2004, the League of the South bestowed on him the Jefferson Davis Lifetime Achievement Award.
Kibler enjoys gardening, organic farming, and research into Southern history and culture. An avid preservationist, he prescribes to Allen Tate’s comment that “the task of the civilized intelligence is perpetual salvage.” He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Southern Garden History Society, the League of the South, and the William Gilmore Simms Society. He is listed in Contemporary Writers’, “Who’s Who in America,” and “Who’s Who in the World.” He divides his time between Whitmire, South Carolina, and Athens, Georgia.
Other books by James Kibler:
The Education of Chauncey Doolittle
Memory’s Keep
Walking Toward Home
Child to the Waters
Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story
Awards and Top Reviews
James Everett Kibler
“In James Everett Kibler we find a member of a quickly diminishing breed: the man of letters.” ––Southern Partisan
AWARDS AND HONORS
2004 Recipient of the Jefferson Davis Lifetime Achievement Award
1999 Recipient of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction
1999 Recipient of the Southern Heritage Society’s Award for Literary Achievement
Founding editor of The Simms Review
Kibler’s work has been published in the Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, and Early American Literature among other scholarly journals and publications.
MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
The Agrarian Foundation Board of Advisors
Phi Beta Kappa
The Southern Garden History Society
League of the South
Poetry Society of South Carolina
William Gilmore Simms Society
Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story
“Part epic, part history, part memoir, this narrative history spans six generations of a Southern family in search of the agrarian ideal.” ––The New York Review of Books
Also reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Southern Living, the Journal of American History, the South Carolina Review, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Wendell Berry, and Shelby Foote.
Child to the Waters
“Scholar and critic James Everett Kibler is clearly one of our finest fiction writers.” ––George Garrett
Also reviewed by the South Carolina Review, MultiCultural Review, and Southern Partisan.
Walking Toward Home
“Kibler is a writer of humor and tradition, fun and folklore, and his stories unfold at the point where the present and the timeless intersect.” ––Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies
Also reviewed by Lake Murray Magazine, The Mississippi Press, and Southern Partisan.
Memory’s Keep
“Even amid great changes, there are those who remember traditions and keep memories alive. Kibler’s novel serves as a reminder of the importance of balance in worldly progress.” ––The Bloomsbury Review
Also reviewed by Booklist, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Athens Magazine, Southern Partisan, James Cantrell, Fred Chappell, and Robert Morgan.
From the Publisher:
“Kibler has developed a theme that has long defined both Southern history and literature: the deep, metaphysical connection between the Southern character and temperament and the natural world . . . a graceful articulation of the agrarian vision.” ––Walter Sullivan
“In James Everett Kibler we find a member of a quickly diminishing breed: the man of letters.” ––Southern Partisan
James Everett Kibler is a novelist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he teaches popular courses in Southern literature, examining such figures as William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Wendell Berry, and Larry Brown. Born and raised in upcountry South Carolina, Kibler spends much of his spare time tending to the renovation of an 1804 plantation home and the reforestation of the surrounding acreage. This home served as the subject of his first book, Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction in 1999 and the Southern Heritage Society’s Award for Literary Achievement.Kibler received his doctorate from the University of South Carolina, and his poetry has been honored by the Poetry Society of South Carolina and has appeared in publications throughout the country. In October 2004, the League of the South bestowed on him the Jefferson Davis Lifetime Achievement Award.
Kibler enjoys gardening, organic farming, and research into Southern history and culture. An avid preservationist, he prescribes to Allen Tate’s comment that “the task of the civilized intelligence is perpetual salvage.” He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Southern Garden History Society, the League of the South, and the William Gilmore Simms Society. He is listed in Contemporary Writers’, “Who’s Who in America,” and “Who’s Who in the World.” He divides his time between Whitmire, South Carolina, and Athens, Georgia.
Other books by James Kibler:
The Education of Chauncey Doolittle
Memory’s Keep
Walking Toward Home
Child to the Waters
Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story
Awards and Top Reviews
James Everett Kibler
“In James Everett Kibler we find a member of a quickly diminishing breed: the man of letters.” ––Southern Partisan
AWARDS AND HONORS
2004 Recipient of the Jefferson Davis Lifetime Achievement Award
1999 Recipient of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction
1999 Recipient of the Southern Heritage Society’s Award for Literary Achievement
Founding editor of The Simms Review
Kibler’s work has been published in the Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, and Early American Literature among other scholarly journals and publications.
MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
The Agrarian Foundation Board of Advisors
Phi Beta Kappa
The Southern Garden History Society
League of the South
Poetry Society of South Carolina
William Gilmore Simms Society
Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story
“Part epic, part history, part memoir, this narrative history spans six generations of a Southern family in search of the agrarian ideal.” ––The New York Review of Books
Also reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Southern Living, the Journal of American History, the South Carolina Review, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Wendell Berry, and Shelby Foote.
Child to the Waters
“Scholar and critic James Everett Kibler is clearly one of our finest fiction writers.” ––George Garrett
Also reviewed by the South Carolina Review, MultiCultural Review, and Southern Partisan.
Walking Toward Home
“Kibler is a writer of humor and tradition, fun and folklore, and his stories unfold at the point where the present and the timeless intersect.” ––Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies
Also reviewed by Lake Murray Magazine, The Mississippi Press, and Southern Partisan.
Memory’s Keep
“Even amid great changes, there are those who remember traditions and keep memories alive. Kibler’s novel serves as a reminder of the importance of balance in worldly progress.” ––The Bloomsbury Review
Also reviewed by Booklist, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Athens Magazine, Southern Partisan, James Cantrell, Fred Chappell, and Robert Morgan.
Gayle Wurst
Personal Note: "I have worked with Gayle on several projects. She has been invaluable to Our History Project in providing sources for us to do what we do. The reason I work with her: I will say without hesitation and with sincerity that the books she has been apart of as an editor have been remarkable. She understands what it takes to put that personal touch to the reader and most importantly she understands that history is meant to be felt, shared and enjoyed. If you find something with her name attached to it get it. It will be worth the read."
A writer, editor, translator and literary agent, Gayle Wurst obtained her Ph.D. in English from the University of Geneva, and taught American literature and translation (French to English) at universities in Switzerland (Geneva and Fribourg) and France (Orléans and Bordeaux) for fifteen years. Other qualifications include a Swiss National Science Foundation grant, and research as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University (two years) and Harvard University (two years). She currently operates Princeton International Agency for the Arts, LLC, a literary agency with a special interest in memoirs, oral histories, and airborne-related publications.
A writer, editor, translator and literary agent, Gayle Wurst obtained her Ph.D. in English from the University of Geneva, and taught American literature and translation (French to English) at universities in Switzerland (Geneva and Fribourg) and France (Orléans and Bordeaux) for fifteen years. Other qualifications include a Swiss National Science Foundation grant, and research as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University (two years) and Harvard University (two years). She currently operates Princeton International Agency for the Arts, LLC, a literary agency with a special interest in memoirs, oral histories, and airborne-related publications.
In 2004, she co-authored Descending from the Clouds with her uncle, Col. Spencer F. Wurst. The book was a main selection of the Military Book Club, and received a starred review in Library Journal, which “highly recommended” the title, stating: “Wurst’s book ranks as one of the best war memoirs written by a World War II veteran.”
Signed first edition hard cover copies of this book as well as a list of other titles she has been apart of may be ordered or requested by calling Princeton International Agency for the Arts at (609) 252-9278, or writing to Gayle Wurst at the agency address:
Princeton International Agency for the Arts, LLC
626 Brickhouse Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 U.S.A.
A writer, editor, translator and literary agent, Gayle Wurst obtained her Ph.D. in English from the University of Geneva, and taught American literature and translation (French to English) at universities in Switzerland (Geneva and Fribourg) and France (Orléans and Bordeaux) for fifteen years. Other qualifications include a Swiss National Science Foundation grant, and research as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University (two years) and Harvard University (two years). She currently operates Princeton International Agency for the Arts, LLC, a literary agency with a special interest in memoirs, oral histories, and airborne-related publications.
A writer, editor, translator and literary agent, Gayle Wurst obtained her Ph.D. in English from the University of Geneva, and taught American literature and translation (French to English) at universities in Switzerland (Geneva and Fribourg) and France (Orléans and Bordeaux) for fifteen years. Other qualifications include a Swiss National Science Foundation grant, and research as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University (two years) and Harvard University (two years). She currently operates Princeton International Agency for the Arts, LLC, a literary agency with a special interest in memoirs, oral histories, and airborne-related publications. In 2004, she co-authored Descending from the Clouds with her uncle, Col. Spencer F. Wurst. The book was a main selection of the Military Book Club, and received a starred review in Library Journal, which “highly recommended” the title, stating: “Wurst’s book ranks as one of the best war memoirs written by a World War II veteran.”
Signed first edition hard cover copies of this book as well as a list of other titles she has been apart of may be ordered or requested by calling Princeton International Agency for the Arts at (609) 252-9278, or writing to Gayle Wurst at the agency address:
Princeton International Agency for the Arts, LLC
626 Brickhouse Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 U.S.A.
Colonel Spencer F. Wurst
Spencer F. Wurst (Colonel, AUS, retired) joined the Pennsylvania National Guard when he was 15, transferred to the paratroops, and earned his wings at 17. Assigned to Company F, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne, he made three of the regiment’s four combat jumps, dropping into Italy, Normandy, and Holland, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge and the Hurtgen Forrest, Germany. His numerous decorations include the Combat Infantry Badge, two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, a Silver Star, and the French Legion of Honor, to name only a few. He rejoined the National Guard in 1946 and served in the 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division. Recalled to active duty in 1950, Wurst served as a tank company commander with one of the first divisions assigned to NATO. In 1969, he was promoted to colonel and assigned as assistant chief-of-staff, G-3, Pennsylvania Army National Guard. After retiring in 1975, he was assigned the distinction of "distinguished member of the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment" by the Secretary of the Army, in recognition of his "special place in regimental continuity, tradition, and esprit de corps (1990)." He was inducted into the Officers Candidate School Hall of Fame at Fort Benning in 2000, and served as President of the 112th Infantry Regiment Association in 2004. He now lives in upstate New York.Signed first edition hard cover copies may be ordered by calling Princeton International Agency for the Arts at (609) 252-9278, or writing to Gayle Wurst at the agency address:
Princeton International Agency for the Arts, LLC
626 Brickhouse Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 U.S.A.
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