I am a writer, a reader, a library director, a manic advocate for literacy for children and adults, and a champion for the implementation of technology in libraries. I appeared in the 2011 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation video series Libraries: A Digital Bridge. I serve on the Alaska State Advisory Board for The AlaskaOWL Project (Online With Libraries), and served as the coordinator of the Alaska Statewide Pitchapalooza and Week of Literary Mayhem in August 2012. Before my involvement with libraries, I served as a Curator, Archaeologist, and Archivist with such diverse federal agencies as The National Park Service, Department of the Army, U.S. Coast Guard, and U.S. Forest Service. In that capacity, I have authored, co-authored, and presented papers at professional conferences, published reviews, have authored and administered numerous grants, and have successfully navigated the inner workings of State and Federal Historic Resources Compliance Agencies and groups. I have conducted research in National, State, and private archives and libraries. I synthesized data from numerous archives for my 1998 thesis: Frequently Close to the Point of Peril: A History of Minor Aids to Navigation in U.S. Waters 1789 - 1939. My greatest strength as a researcher is to quickly recognize patterns and connections and capitalize on the data presented.

My interests include: Maritime History, Mythology and Folklore, the History of Spiritualism, Cartography, Mining (both History and Archaeology), Medieval Studies, Alaskan History and Mythology, Ancient Languages, and Music (History, Performance, and Therapy). Archaeologically, I am interested in the conservation of artifacts in arctic and subarctic landscapes, which includes an interest in the degradation of material types across a spectrum of use, disuse, and neglect.

And if you're here looking for the subject of the Lawrence World-Journal story about the abandoned baby in 1964, then, yes, you've found her.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/jan/13/lawhorns-lawrence-tale-abandoned-baby-dime-and-law/
http://www.adn.com/2013/01/15/2753202/baby-abandoned-in-lawrence-in.html

And if you're here looking for the librarian in featured in the 2011 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Videos Libraries: A Digital Bridge and Libraries: Expanding Boundaries and Shrinking Borders, then, yes, you've found her, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cwsrgMOcLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4kyFhZe2so

Novel: "The Fishing Widow," published by Alaskan Gothic Press 1/2013

Full Book Trailer for "The Fishing Widow:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfsxnj0Ep7g
eBook Release Trailer for "The Fishing Widow" 1.6.13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azazNyGjHsU

Review: "Decayed Etchings" by Brandon Ford, published by Dark River Press 2/2012
Review: "Boroughs of the Dead" by Andrea James, published by Dark River Press 2/2012
Review: "The Living Dead at Zigfried and Roy" by Axel Howerton, published by Dark River Press 1/2012
Review: "The Zombie Bible: Death Has Come Up Into Our Windows" by Stant Litore, published by Dark River Press 1/2012

CUT TIME (Contemporary Paranormal Horror) currently in edits
IN DARK PLACES (Alaskan Gothic set in 1913) 85% complete
MUSIC WOOD (Alaskan Gothic YA set in 1795 and 2027) 50% complete

A HISTORY OF BUOYS AND TENDERS published by the US Coast Guard in 1995. Still in print and available through the USCG Historian's Office in Washington, D.C.

1983 Graduate of The Hackley Preparatory School (Tarrytown, New York)
1987 B.A. Medieval History/Archaeology (State University of New York at New Paltz)
1999 M.A. Maritime History/Nautical Archaeology (East Carolina University)
14.5 years as an Archaeologist and Curator working for various Federal agencies (Forest Service, Park Service, US Army, and US Coast Guard)
Currently Library Director for The Craig Public Library located on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska
Grant writing, expository writing, researcher with familiarity in federal, state, and private collections, including National Archives Records Groups and university collections.
William D. Wilkerson Fellow, Mariner's Museum, Newport News, VA
WALKING MAGAZINE 1994 grand prize winner: "The Best Walk in America: Zion's Narrows at Sunrise."
Commander's Award for Civilian Service (Bronze Star equivalent): Fort Bliss, Texas, Archaeological Resources Curation
Department of Defense: Best Archaeological Resources Team, 1999
Department of the Army: Best Archaeological Resources Team, 1999
TRADOC: Best Archaeological Resources Team, 1999
Fort Bliss Environmental Steward of the Year, 1996
Conservation of Artifacts on the Landscape: Bremner Gold Mining District (coauthored paper presented at the American Institute of Conesrvation, 2006)
Featured in a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Video: Libraries: A Digital Bridge. 2011/2012

Grants Awarded and Administered:

2011 Public Library Assistance Grant (State of Alaska)
2011 Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) Native American Libraries Grant
2011 International Observe the Moon Night Grant
2010 Public Library Assistance Grant (State of Alaska)
2010 Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) Native American Libraries Grant
2009 Public Library Assistant Grant (State of Alaska)
2009 Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) Native American Libraries Grant
2005 Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation, Kennecott Archive Preservation Project Support
2004 Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation, Kennecott Archive Preservation Project Support
2003-06 University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Kennecott Archive Preservation Project Support
2002-04 Save America’s Treasures, Kennecott Archive Preservation Project, Anchorage, AK

THE FISHING WIDOW -- Alaskan Gothic novel -- Complete

The difference between a fairy tale and a fisherman’s tale is this: a fairy tale begins “Once Upon a Time,” while a fisherman’s tale begins “This Ain’t No Bullshit.”

In September 2006, nineteen-year-old Ethan Lindgren reeled as his best friend, fellow fisherman Colin Claybaugh, hauled him bodily across Fairweather’s deck. Wind shrieked through the wires as stony grey seas flew across the rail, the force threatening to knock them off their feet. Torrents of rain and spray could not hide the trepidation in Ethan’s clear blue eyes as he met the unflappable green of Colin’s gaze before he looked across at Revelation rolling, lightless, beside them. Driving rain rattled sharply against the hood of Ethan’s survival suit as Colin’s grip tightened. “Don’t miss!” Colin yelled above the storm. Ethan pulled away. “Asshole!” he shot back with a smirk. They leapt. As their knees bruised and their hands scrabbled madly for any purchase on Revelation’s sea-slickened deck, they were unaware that they had flung themselves into a web that had snarled so many like them so many times before.

Time again. Aboard The Case in Point in March 2010, Colin, Ethan, and their five deckhands set out from Port Saint Anne, Alaska into the teeth of the Sitka Herring War. The specter of Revelation rises again. Enigmatic lights, voices of the familiar dead, and glimpses of some unknown horror target them one by one. Each man clings anxiously to the hope that none of it is real, but realizes that every set of their net may drag aboard their deadliest catch.

A woman out of her time, flickering between flesh and bone, portends their approaching ruin. She is the stuff of legend, of frantic and despairing entries in dusty ships’ logs and diaries of her damned. Forgotten, forsaken, Elizabeth Hartt desperately needs Ethan’s help while needing, desperately, to tear out his heart and consume his crew.

The boundaries of history and legend blur as coincidence evaporates and trusts shatter. As March wanes, Ethan and his crew slip closer to the edge of death. Long-undead revenants, guardian totems, and the terror of The Reach conspire to pull ordinary fishing boys through frightening events worthy of the old saying about a fisherman’s tale.