More Pictures from the Spring Lake Mammoth Dig!

There are just a few weeks before we will unveil the huge woolly mammoth exhibit and just as a reminder, we are still taking photos from you to have on display during the event! The event will take place on Saturday, April 3rd from 5 - 9pm. Hope you plan to attend!

Dr. Stan Lantz, who ran the dig in 1983 has sent us a bunch of slides that we are currently having scanned and digitalized - and we want to thank him for being so thoughtful! We hope that he and many others from the dig in 1983 plan to attend the event as well!

We are closing in on 200 photos now that will be available the night of the event on dvd as part of the celebration. If you want to add that the collection, just place your name on the back of your photos and mail them (make sure to write your return address on your envelope so that we know who to return them to and where!) to:

SRAC Woolly Mammoth Photos
PO Box 12,
Sayre, PA 18840

Here are are some more of the photos that we have received! Stay tuned for more!

Shots from the Tanglewood Presentation at SRAC

We want to thank Bridgette Sharry and the Tanglewood Nature Center for presenting a wonderful program yesterday at SRAC - the following are images and a video from the Animals on Our River System event!

Thanks to everyone who came - It was a great time had by all!

ALL ABOUT FROGS!

Kids of every age enjoyed the event!

The hawk was a HIT!


BUT THE "CLOSER" FOR THE EVENT WAS...



MILLIE the Possum! AND SHE WAS THE CUTEST !
(We ALL got a chance to pet her too!)


Watch here!

The Daily Review did a nice write up here.

SRAC :The River Runs Through It

At the Susquehanna "River" Archaeological Center - the rivers have always been a big deal. The rivers are the reason that our region is so rich with resources and why even 14,000 years ago, it was a great place to live.

That is also the reason that we wrapped the river into the Woolly Mammoth Exhibit set to be unveiled on April 3rd - because without the meeting of the rivers, we would be just like any other region in the northeast...(which many researchers have mistakenly taken us for !)
As a result, it is not by mistake that the next phase of the exhibit is the river and riverbank.

The following pictures are just the beginning of that part of the exhibit that I am very excited about and thought I'd show you how it is coming along:

Someone asked today me if we were taking donations towards the exhibit - the answer is YES! We have financed all but the tusk and jaw that were donated by the Andaste Chapter with the help of the Allen Pierce Foundation - - so we can use all the help we can get!

You can mail donations to:

SRAC Woolly Mammoth Exhibit
PO Box 12
Sayre, PA 18840

or use the following button to donate online:

SRACis a 501(c)3 - and a non-profit organization
This means that appropriate donations to SRAC are tax deductible!

Photos From Today

Today was a busy Sunday at SRAC - - and now that we are counting the weeks until the unveiling - I doubt that there will be a day that it won't be this way - The good news is that we all have become great friends and the exhibit will be an awesome illustration of great talents and minds coming together to create something very special...

Throughout this past week Tom Vallilee with the help of Sam Ayers and Don Hunt has been getting the structure built to support the backlighting and storyboard that will run around the top of the whole exhibit:



I stopped in one day at lunch and shot this picture of Sam sitting on top of the ladder helping Tom:

Today was the next shift of Craig and Rita Maurey, "Big Al" and Brian Denlinger. Craig and Rita are building the case for the tusk and jaw and so on - and in the picture below Brian is watching as they are cutting plexiglass for the case... Brian is the overall designer and coordinator among everyone to keep each separate job all jiving with the overall design we have for the whole exhibit...


Craig and Rita have been working for weeks now on this case and I can tell you that it is an amazing piece of craftsmanship that they have created and is just one example of how we at SRAC continue to be amazed at the talent that we have been blessed to have want to be a part of this Center and its successes.

Before we added the plexi- we decided to place the tusk in the case - - it wasn't long before I had second thoughts about this thought and we took it back out....it did however give me a chance to see how the tusk will fit in the case - and it was perfect...


I want to thank the Maurey's and Big Al and Brian for stopping in and working so hard today ... with less than 30 days left before the unveiling - it is an awesome feeling knowing that Tom and all of you guys have us covered!


As you can see - - these are incredibly exciting times for us - - and although we will all need a long vacation after it is all finished, the excitement and fun continues as we keep working to make our unveiling date of April 3rd.

Oh - - by the way - EVERYONE that I named in this post are VOLUNTEERS. When you see them - give them a pat on the back for us!

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deb

LIVE ANIMAL SHOW - Saturday, March 13th

Saturday, March 13th from 2-3pm
LIVE ANIMAL SHOW - Animals on Our River System,
by Tanglewood Nature Center
at the Susquehanna River Archaeological Center, 345 Broad Street, Waverly, NY

Tanglewood Nature Center returns to SRAC with a live animal show - this time bringing live reptiles, birds and mammals that live along and from our river system and it's resources such as hawks, owls, turtles, and many more! These events are educational and entertaining for all ages!

The doors will open at 1pm, with the program running from 2 – 3pm. Admission is $5 Adults, $4 for SRAC members and students, kids under ten, $3. **Is your family having a budget crunch? Call us and we will work something out for your kids to be able to attend! The public is advised that the SRAC gift shop and exhibit hall will also be open during this time as well and to please consider arriving early to browse these areas before the program. For more information, call 570-565-7960 or email info@sracenter.org.

Mammoth Delivery Arrives at SRAC

A mammoth delivery arrived at the Susquehanna River Archaeological Center (SRAC) in downtown Waverly, today. In fact it was a woolly mammoth delivery to be exact.

The shipment began in the early hours at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, PA where molds had been created from the Jefferson woolly mammoth remains that were excavated at Spring Lake in Asylum Township, Bradford County, PA in 1983. Throughout that summer, many professionals and amateurs worked side by side as they uncovered the remains of the great beast that lived approximately 14,270 years ago.

Actual photo from 1983 dig

After the excavation in 1983 was over, all of the original remains of the mammoth were delivered to Carnegie for research purposes, and this is where they remain today. Because this excavation was so important in Pennsylvania’s history, the Bradford County Andaste Chapter of PA Archaeology, with the help of a grant from the Allen Pierce Foundation, funded perfect replicas of the original tusk , jaw with teeth, and tooth to be placed in the SRAC exhibit hall for future generations to learn about this excavation and the woolly mammoths that lived in our region.

The delivery made its way to SRAC after nearly six hours in the back of one of the Carnegie Museum’s vehicles and was accompanied by Norman Wuerthele, who was the same technician for Carnegie that wrapped and packed the original mammoth remains for delivery to Pittsburgh in 1983.

Carnegie Museum’s Norman Wuerthele and SRAC’s Tom Vallilee and
Ted Keir pose with the new additions to the SRAC Exhibit Hall.

The items will soon be a part of a huge exhibit including two murals, kiosk with movie shorts, and realistic landscape from the time when the mammoths roamed our area. The exhibit will be officially unveiled during a ceremony and celebration at SRAC on Saturday, April 3rd from 5-9pm. The public is invited to attend throughout the evening.

SRAC’s Deb Twigg stated, “Over the past decade, Ted Keir has presented a slide show about the excavation that took place at Spring Lake to just about every club in the region, and he had always hoped that there could be an exhibit complete with the ten-foot tusk for public display. I am just grateful that after over a quarter of a century it finally happened. We all owe him a big thank you for his diligence in finally finding a way to make it happen.”

SRAC is located at 345 Broad Street , Waverly, NY. To learn more, visit www.SRAcenter.org.

Ghosts of Gettysburg!

Tuesday March 2nd, from 6:30 - 7:30 pm -
History's Mysteries
"Ghosts, spirits and other paranormal activity at Gettysburg"
by John Trice and Pat Karas
at the Susquehanna River Archaeological Center, 345 Broad Street, Waverly, NY

SRAC presents a night for all of the history buffs who enjoy the recent surge in Ghost Hunting. Those present will examine photographs of orbs, ectoplasm and paranormal smoke on the battlefield, Sachs Bridge and the Daniel Lady Farm. John and Pat will also discuss and demonstrate the art of dowsing rods along with cadaver dogs that have been employed to locate Civil War soldiers buried on private land outside the battlefield park.Join us for a night filled with educational information, fun and the paranormal!

John Trice is the former D.A for Chemung County, current Appellate Counsel for New York State Supreme Court and Elmira College Instructor of Criminal Law.

Pat Karas trains cadaver dogs which are used to discover remains in arson investigations. Her dogs were used in a Pennsylvania Research Project to locate Civil War Soldiers buried on private lands outside the battlefield park. She is the owner of the Heritage k-9 Search and Rescue located in Van Etten, NY.

The doors will open at 6pm, with the program running from 6:30 – 7:30pm. Admission is $5 Adults, $4 for SRAC members and students. The public is advised that the SRAC gift shop and exhibit hall will also be open during this time as well and to please consider arriving early to browse these areas before the program. For more information, call 570-565-7960 or email info@sracenter.org.