Book Review: Everyday Religion: an Archaeology of Protestant Belief and Practice in the Nineteenth Century, by Hadley Kruczek-Aaron

Everyday Religion: an Archaeology of Protestant Belief and Practice in the Nineteenth Century, by Hadley Kruczek-Aaron, 2015, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 237 pages, black and white figures, references, index, $79.95 (cloth)

The Social and Material Lives of the Agricultural Elite: The18th-Century Tyngs of Dunstable, Massachusetts

The Tyngs were a wealthy family in Dunstable (now Tyngsborough), Massachusetts in the late- 17th and 18th centuries. They were descended from a Boston merchant, and maintained many commercial connections. Some members of the family became rural storekeepers in Dunstable. Historical research and archaeological data from Eleazer Tyng\u27s house site show the different ways in which the Tyngs related themselves to the urban coastal elite, and participated in the culture of gentility and refinement. Through architecture, social connections, and material goods such as tea wares, they lived as rural elites with connections to the coast. Rather than directly mimicking the life of Boston elites, the Tyngs adapted gentility to their rural life and agrarian base

A Comparison of Relationship Development Activities on Group Interactions

Virtual teams are geographically distributed and communicate via computer-mediated communication systems. Trust and relational links among team members have been shown to affect virtual team communications. However, most virtual team members do not receive training on how to effectively promote the development of relational links or trust. This study investigated the effects of both face-to-face relationship development activities and relationship development training on group interactions. Training on relational development in teams was derived from previous literature and administered to 13 selected teams. Twelve teams had initial face-to-face meetings and engaged in face-to-face relationship development activities but received no other training. Twelve additional teams received ‘passive’ trust development training

Expanding the Data Warehouse Paradigm to Support the Virtual Company

Virtual Organizations (VO) are on the rise fueled by a more global base for commerce, technology development to support VOs and a more global demand for products, and virtuality can fundamentally transform the ways in which organizations operate. In order to operate successfully a VO must develop a knowledge infrastructure which allows for seamless flow of information between geographically distributed people, processes and repositories. To support this a virtual data warehouse needs an architectural design with a logically common meta-data, common semantics and common business rules. While data warehouses have been designed to support the traditional organization the VO’s high level of uncertainty and lack of centralized control make the construction of a data warehouse to support a VO more challenging. This paper presents two possible scenarios for accomplishing this along with advantages and disadvantages of both and measures of success

Recursive Use of GPR, Excavation, and Historical Maps at Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts

Gore Place is the early 19th-century house and estate of Massachusetts governor Christopher Gore and his wife Rebecca. The Gores were active in scientific agriculture and cultivated grains, fruits, and vegetables on the property. As part of the landscape restoration, the Gore Place Society wished to know the exact location and preservation status of Gore’s stable and greenhouse. To determine these, we recursively combined historic map georeferencing, ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey, and excavation. We used an initial GPR survey to guide our excavation, then using the GPR-slice images and data from the excavations, a series of historical maps were re-georeferenced, allowing for much better interpretation of the GPR-slice images. Interpreting GPR, excavation, and documentary data in this integrated, sequential package yields more information with less excavation than traditional methods