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| EDITORIAL:
TRAVEL Hip Deep in History Ghostly Tales, Desert Beauty Capture Our Fancy ---------------------------- It’s best to leave the bad archaeology puns door. By the time you leave the San Diego Archaelogical Society, you won’t have to dig deep to find traces of local history. The dirty work has been done for you, thanks to a scrappy crew of professional and student curators, and volunteers. The society’s warehouse location is an informal combination of museum, repository and research center, and is, itself, something of a buried treasure (unmarked, right next door to Sushi) in the East Village. Its operative tagline and mission is “Touch the Past.” That involves preserving San Diego’ 10,000-year legacy of people — the San Dieguito, the Kumeyaay, and the La Jolla, among others American Indian tribes — and what they left behind. Exhibits feature artifacts and ecofacts — fishing equipment, stone and rocks, glass and pottery, maps of trading routes — offering clues into how others lived, which is genesis of how many San Diegans live today. So the next time you think you’ve been there, done that, or that you’ve seen it all, this fascinating place is a quiet, humbling reminder that we haven’t. Originally published in The San Diego Union-Tribune, May 12, 2002 |
