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Paolo Visoná a member of our Kentucky Society was awarded a grant from the AIA to create an exhibition of his work at a Greek mountain fort in Southern Italy [University of Kentucky Excavations at Monte Palazzi (Calabria), in 2007-2010]. The exhibition will be held at the Lexington Public Library and is free and open to all. Central Branch Paolo described the project in his application as follows:

“This exhibition aims to present the results of three seasons of archaeological investigations at the site of Monte Palazzi, in the southern Italian region of Calabria, where the remains of a Greek fort have been uncovered.  Located on a mountaintop on the northern boundaries of the territory of Locri Epizephyrii, one of the oldest cities in Magna Graecia, this outpost guarded an overland route linking the Ionian to the Tyrrhenian coasts.  It was occupied from the late archaic to the early Hellenistic period.  The show will consist of a series of large panels featuring a multi-disciplinary analysis of the site based on GIS mapping and remote sensing, as well as the most significant finds from the 2007-2010 excavations.  It will highlight the application of different archaeological techniques for a reconstruction of the history of the fort and its ancient environment.  An opening lecture will illustrate the objectives of this project and its implications for an understanding of Greek frontier history in southern Italy before the Roman conquest. “

We are proud of Paolo and share in his honor. Here are some photos from the excavation.

This page is devoted to news being made by our members, activities of the society, and other things that just might be of interest to our membership.  While we aren't going to be selling Gen-su knives or Vege-matics on this page, I do believe it's important to note new books being published by our membership, articles being published, research projects, awards and honors, etc.  So please let me know about them.

The first big item of news is that we now have a website.  Right now Jonathan Hamby is the webmaster (hamby1@gmail.com), but the job is open to anyone who would like to take it on.  This will be an on-going job to further develop this site with the aid of suggestions and specific recommendations from our membership.  Don't be shy in sharing your thoughts and criticisms.

The society now has its own listserv through the auspices of Yahoo.  Many of you will be familiar with this, and will know how to use it and recognize the benefit that it can have for our statewide membership.  You will notice in the links column that there is a page devoted to the listserv.  This explains its purpose, how it works, and how to get signed in on it. John Fischer  is currently the moderator, and rest assured that all messages coming through this have to be approved by him.  So no spam can possibly get through.  So don't let that worry you about signing up.  Please check out the Listserv page, and get signed up today!  In fact, if everyone of our members had a working email address, all newsletters now being printed and mailed could be sent by email.  This would save a huge portion of our yearly budget for other programs such as speakers or activities.

The Kentucky Society now has its own domain name.  We are www.kyarchaeology.com.  That's what you had to logon to to get to this web site.  I hope you'll use it often to visit this website, and share your comments about how to make it better.

Most member-based organizations like ours have items available for the membership to purchase to show their allegiance to the organization.  To that end, we are now having a contest to get our membership to develop a logo for the Kentucky Society.  First thoughts have been toward having T-shirts printed with the logo.  Not only would they be fun to wear, they would help in advertising for new members and could possibly become a means by which the society could raise money for our local programs and activities.  Don't worry about being an artist.  Give us a rough draft of your ideas.  Please send them to John E. Fischer at fischerj@wabash.edu.