An Unsatisfying Season

 I have unpardonably left you in a long state of suspense, dear readers, with our boat engine on fire and with considerable uncertainty how we would continue to work, stranded boatless as we were on Paget Island...

The Bermuda Government, in the form of YSR Leadership and Captain Andre, saved the day (or rather the last two weeks) by giving us a discount charter of the Paget Island boat Sin or Swim to go to and from Smith's Island and the St. George's Lab each day to carry on excavating. Our ability to keep working with Bermudian volunteers became complicated but many came out anyway - hooked as they were on the thrill of finding artifacts, getting dirty, sweating profusely, and our usual fever-dream stream of consciousness working chatter. The students enjoyed rotations through the lab working with Valerie in the final week and then all too soon it was June 29, the season ended, and it was time to pack up, move out of our Paget Island home, and return to the Real World (or, in the case of supervisors and Andrew, Southampton).

Overview and Accomplishments

All in all, we got a respectable amount of new work done with a very small group that had to contend with a large number of rain days, high heat and humidity, injuries and sickness, no wifi, a broken boat, and an unusually high number of mosquitos on both Smith's and Paget Islands.