Laura Seifert

They are joined by instructor Alicia Durham, department chair Caroline Whitehead and East Carolina University graduate student Laura Seifert.
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"Since this was a turpentine plantation, we're hoping to find tar pits and distilleries," said Seifert.

Lured to the dig through Durham, an ECU alumnus, Seifert serves as a de facto director and will turn her findings into a thesis.

Alicia Durham, center, who taught the CCC classes, and Laura Seifert, with ECU's Archaeology Department and also a part of the dig team, met with members of the Foscue family and other interested parties at the Plantation Saturday to discuss the findings.
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Archaeologist Laura Seifert of East Carolina University includes some of those assessments in her master's thesis presented to Foscue Plantation Directors and Tryon Palace Director Kay Williams Saturday.

That work, done with the help of 26 students of Alicia Durham of Craven Community College summer field school, says more about what didn't happen here than what did, Seifert said.
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"Family legend says that the main house was used as a Union war hospital," Seifert said.
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Ewen, Seifert, and Durham all say the fact that the plantation was kept together and good records kept is making reassembling the history of the early N.C. turpentine plantation easier.
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Ewen said that with that and Jim Foscue's support of the archeological and historical research, Seifert's management plan opens a lens to a clearer picture of naval stores plantation operation in N.C.

They are joined by instructor Alicia Durham, department chair Caroline Whitehead and East Carolina University graduate student Laura Seifert.
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"Since this was a turpentine plantation, we're hoping to find tar pits and distilleries," said Seifert.

Lured to the dig through Durham, an ECU alumnus, Seifert serves as a de facto director and will turn her findings into a thesis.