Welcome
The on going development of this site represents the progress I'm making in my Clio Wired 2 class at George Mason University. It was built on CSS using Dreamweaver 8. All Images were edited in Photoshop CS2. Hopefully as the semester continues this page will be further refined.
In addition to housing my school projects I will also link to personal pages that you will notice have not been redesigned using CSS. That project will have to wait for another time. Other links will take you to the various organizations to which I belong and my blog. Feel free to provide comments, suggestions, and advice.
Sketching the SS Copenhagen's anchor off the coast of Florida.
Voices
If you have looked through any of my pages you will notice the maritime theme that runs through each one. I received my training as a maritime historian and underwater archaeologist from East Carolina University and it is the chief passion of my life. Sharing that passion of discovery is the driving goal behind my enrollment in the PhD program at George Mason University's History department. There is a moment when you come upon a shipwreck in the quiet gloom under the water where, if you move slowly and focus on what lies before you, you will learn its story. The shipwrights talk through their tool marks still visible on the decaying timbers, the sailors speak through the possessions they left behind, the merchants whisper through the remains of their cargo that lies scattered on the sea floor, and the captains sigh as their craft lies rotting on the bottom. Their story is there. One merely needs to learn how to hear it and read the signs. If you sit on the bottom quietly enough you can hear the voices from the sea.
