Mayor unearths two churches' hidden pasts

Independent (NJ) ^ | 8-29-07 | Karen Bowes

[Renfield]

MIDDLETOWN - Christians go to church. Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger goes under them.

He finds things one might not expect, a perfectly good dead cat, for instance, a 17thcentury witch's caldron, bullets and whiskey bottles - lots and lots of whiskey bottles.

On Aug. 22, Scharfenberger, an adjunct professor at Monmouth University and senior archaeologist for Richard Grubb & Associates, Cranbury, appeared at Croydon Hall to present a slideshow highlighting some of his more unusual finds. The dead cat, for example, was found with a gunshot wound to the eye......

[Renfield]

Interesting article....reveals a lot about early Colonial American culture that we might not otherwise suspect....

[Renfield]

Colonial American archaeology ping.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Cailleach]

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[kalee]

“Give your child Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and he’ll sleep like the dead ‘till morning,” was the brand’s slogan, Scharfenberger said, adding that he believed the product’s claims because the syrup’s primary ingredients were morphine and alcohol.

Give your child too much and he’ll not only sleep like he’s dead, he may actually be dead. Goodness!

On a more timely note, nursing mothers should be careful with Pepto-Bismol purchased in Mexico. It has paregoric in it.

[rmlew]

On a more timely note, nursing mothers should be careful with Pepto-Bismol purchased in Mexico. It has paregoric in it.

Someone, somewhere has failed a drug test over this.