![]() ![]() ![]() This summer’s schedule is being hammered out as I write this, but a few dates are worth noting now. ![]() The longhouse and cross-passage style houses now being identified here in Connecticut and Maine have direct ties to West Country building traditions and are quite different from the better documented Hall and Parlor type houses we are more familiar with. It appears that many individuals arriving in the New England colonies in the 1630s and 1640s from this region brought their own building traditions and dreams of establishing wealthy estates. Both southern Maine and Connecticut appear to be producing sites established by sometimes wealthy landholders with close ties to the English West Country, the area encompassing modern Devon, Cornwall, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, and Gloucestershire in southwestern England. We both agreed that there is a lot to learn about this period in New England both north and south of the Puritan-dominated Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies. Tad is an expert on 17 th century New England material culture and architecture, so it was a treat to have him up at the UConn archaeology lab to look over artifacts found last summer at the Lt. Emerson “Tad” Baker who came down from Salem State University to present a paper at the most recent Friends of the Office of State Archaeology annual lecture. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience.I just enjoyed a terrific visit from Dr.The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England ISBN 1-4039-7207-9 (2007).American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega ISBN 0-8032-4554-8 (1995).The Clarke & Lake Company: The Historical Archaeology of a Seventeenth-Century Maine Settlement ASIN B001U7I9A0 (1985).He joined the faculty of Salem State College in September 1994.Ī specialist in the history of seventeenth century Maine, Baker has been featured as an expert consultant on the PBS mini-series Colonial House he has also provided historical consultation for Parks Canada, National Geographic, Plimoth Plantation, National Park Service, Historic Salem Inc., Beverly Historical Society and many historic district commissions." He has also served as an expert witness for archaeological matters in several court cases in Nova Scotia and Maine. ![]() įrom 1988 to 1994, Baker served as executive director of the York Institute Museum and Dyer Library. in history (with a dissertation on failed Anglo-Indian relations in early Maine) from the College of William & Mary under the guidance of James Axtell. After graduating from Bates with a BA in history in 1980, he received his MA in history (with a concentration in historical archaeology) from the University of Maine at Orono in 1983. Before attending Bates College in Lewiston, Maine (where he would later meet his wife and play/lead the rugby club), Baker spent a year in the United Kingdom studying at Cranleigh School, where he learned to play rugby. He currently resides in York, Maine.īaker was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1958 and attended Applewild School and Phillips Academy. He is well known in academic circles for his extensive work on witchcraft in Colonial America, as well as for his work on numerous archaeological sites along the East Coast of the United States. Emerson " Tad" Baker II (born ) is a historical archaeologist and professor of history at Salem State University. ![]()
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