The Day the Johnboat Went up the Mountain: Stories from My Twenty Years in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology

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vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Twenty Years and Counting 1 The Lewisfield—No, Two Cannon— No, Little Landing Wreck Site 5 Mud Sucks 22 The Day the Johnboat Went up the Mountain 42 Hobcaw Shipyard 55 Dredging for the First Americans 69 The Upside-Down Wreck 79 Salvage License #32 91 The Wreck of the SS William Lawrence 108 Hobby Divers 116 Joe and the Alligator 133 Brown’s Ferry Vessel Arrives in Georgetown 139 Those Darn Dugouts 149 The Hunley, the Housatonic, and the Indian Chief 158 The Mysterious French Cargo Site 167 The Cooper River Anchor Farm 173 Mowing the Lawn 180 Man Overboard—Not! 187 “Never Sausage an Artifact” 207 Sexy Wrecks 215 viii Contents Bibliography 233 Index 249 ...