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Local historian Vinnie Nykiel gave a talk on hydroelectric power in the Lamoka Valley on June 17.
In the early twentieth century, there was an ambitious plan to dam the entire valley (which would have flooded a vast area, including the Lamoka Lake archaeological site).
A preview of his talk to the Town of Wayne History Group is at the Corning Leader.
Mark Raymond Harrington was not only an archaeologist and ethnologist, but also a writer. Tellers of Weird Tales has an account of one of his earlier works of fiction, Teoquitla the Golden, which was published in Weird Tales using his pseudonym, Ramon de las Cuevas (i.e., Raymond of the Caves).
This story was published in 1924, the year before Arthur Parker and William Ritchie would begin excavations at the Lamoka Lake site. Harrington had recently completed his work at the Ozark rockshelters (likely the inspiration for his pen name) and would soon make some of his major discoveries in Nevada.
See how Harrington dressed when he wasn’t writing here.
The always fascinating Mark Raymond Harrington modeling his exploring outfit for Museum Service, the bulletin of the Rochester Municipal Museum.
Mr. Harrington, soon after his academic work at Ann Arbor and Columbia began to explore the out-of-the-way places of America and has been remarkably successful.