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Paper presentations at the Society for Industrial Archeology will take place Thursday, August 26 from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time at the Historic Hotel Bethlehem.

PAPERS

8:00 – 9:30 AM

Room A: Builders and Processes

• Marty Johnston–“Charles Hunt’s Innovations in the Materials Handling Industry”
• Kevin Coffee – “Watersheds & Trees: 19^th cent. Textile Industry Impacts” (Pre-Recorded)
• Paul C. King – “Roebling and Ellet as Engineers in Pennsylvania”

Room B: Digital Strategies for IA

• Frank Matero – “Slatelands: Pennsylvania’s Slate Belt”
• Charles E. Williams – “Census and LiDAR Prospecting for Colliers and Charcoal Hearths” (Pre-Recorded)
• Charles Yuill & Stefania Stanscia – “Industrial and Landscape Archaeology in Central Appalachia Coal” (Pre-Recorded)
• Lee Maddex – “IA with LiDAR and an 1854 Iron Mining Report in Coopers Rock State Forest, WV”

Room C: Keystone State IA 1

• David Blackburn – “Transatlantic Links in Iron Heritage”
• Brian Schmult – “Casting Cleaners at Hopewell Furnace”
• Paula J. Nasta – “Planks, Post, Paper and Dynamite: Vernacular Wood Construction in Eckley Miner’s Village” (Pre-Recorded)

 

10:00 – 12:00 AM

Room A: Debriefing Wednesday’s Process Tours – Panel Discussion

• Patrick Harshbarger
• Fredric Quivik
• Helena Wright

Room B: Heritage Areas and Archaeology

• Andrew Anklam – “Lost and Found: Identifying Exploratory Mines Through GIS Reconstructions of Surveyor’s Paths” (Pre-Recorded)
• Gideon Hoekstra – “Quincy Hill Landscapes: Exploratory Mining and National Guard Encampments” (Pre-Recorded)
• Arron Kotlensky – “Pittsburgh Steel: Forging a National Heritage Area from Blast Furnace Ashes”

Room C: Keystone State IA 2

• James Stone – “The Electrical System of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company”
• Trevor Shellhammer – “Bethlehem Steel and Lincoln Tunnel: A Place in Tunnel History”
• Jill A. Schennum – “Mexican Steelworkers in Bethlehem, PA”

 

2:00 – 3:30 PM

Room A: Industrial Production and Interpretation

• Jet Lowe – “Making Music at Martin Guitar, Nazareth, PA”
• Bierce Riley – “Slater’s Mill, Riverdale, NJ: Fur to Disco”
• Michael Froio – “From the Main Line: Understanding the Pennsylvania Railroad Through the Contemporary Landscape”

Room B: International Perspectives on Covered Bridge Traditions

• Ronald Knapp – “China’s Covered Bridges from a Worldwide Perspective”
• Terry E. Miller – “America’s Covered Bridges: Continuing or Reinventing European Traditions?”
• Ronald Knapp – “China’s Folk Traditions and ‘Corridor Bridges’ Langqiao”

Room C: Urban Planning

• Harold Aurand Jr. and Cynthia Dravenovich – “Manufacturing Moves Out of the City: A Case Study of an Anthracite Coal Town”

 

4:00 – 5:30 PM

Room A: Industrial History Consequences

• Mark Nonestied – “Its Vast Manufacturing Interest Would Be of Great Aid to the Nation: Middlesex County During the Great War”
• Jayashree Shamanna – “Bridging Fiscal Prudence and Profligacy in Failing to Save a Landmark”

Room B: Historic Bridges

• Michael J. Cuddy – “Hill – to – Hill Bridge: An Engineering Marvel for Bethlehem’s Transportation Needs”
• Perry Green – “Aesthetic and Structural Lessons from the Walnut St. Bridge Rehab”
• Kathryn Auerbach – “Stone Pillar Bridges: Substructure of Our Country” (Pre-Recorded)

Room C: Keystone State IA 3

• Mark W. Connar – “Recreating the President Pumping Engine, Friedensville Mines, Lehigh County, PA”

 

POSTERS

• Daniel Dellosso – “Social Impacts of Industrial Flour Milling in Pioneer Southern Colorado”
• Larissa Harris – “Heritage Erasure at Soudan Underground Mine”
• Lesley Maia Horowitz – “Infiltration and the Effects to Save Lackawanna Steel’s Headquarters”
• Claire Marcus – “Railroad Perspectives: Industrial Landscapes in NE Pennsylvania Art”
• Tim Maze – “Waste Stream Implications at Camp Au Train”
• Kyle Parker – McGynn – “Online Digital Interactive Displays for Industrial Museums”
• LouAnn Wurst – “Labor in the Northern Woods”

Note: All schedules are tentative and subject to change.

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