the 2011 french creek society annual banquet was held sunday, october 23, at 5pm at hoss's steak and sea in meadville, pennsylvania. roughly, 40 or so persons attended. it is believed that nearly everyone had a nice evening. following our meals, tom barrat with the crawford county historical society made a short presentation regarding the history of john brown in the region. then, sandy porter, leader of the excavation team, made the first public presentation of the findings with good photographs. the scale model birch bark canoe was won by new members linda and mark evans. a thank you was delivered to each of those directly involved with the dig; a special thank you was delivered to ed edinger and the john brown heritage association for extending to our group the priviledge of excavating at a site listed on the national historic register. the proceedings wrapped up around 9pm.

hiram bingham III .. in camp near machu pichu

map of the inca empire

fossil of ancient creature with a seventeen foot wingspan

wholly rhino

apparently, homo erectus made stone tools earlier than previously thought