27TH ANNUAL HIGHLANDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL CONFERENCE PRESENTED BY: INC. ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER, NYSAA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY NORTH JERSEY HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY FRIENDS OF STERLING FOREST SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2013 LAUTENBERG VISITORS CENTER, STERLING FOREST STATE PARK 115 OLD FORGE ROAD, TUXEDO, NY MORNING PROGRAM: 10:00 AM to NOON Join Doc Baynes on a 2 mile hike to the Upper and Lower California Mines and the old town of Lakeville. If time allows, Doc will show us the Benjamin Mine, “never seen before.� Hike will leave the Sterling forest visitors center at 10:00 AM sharp. AFTERNOON PROGRAM: 1:00 TO 4:00pm at Sterling Forest State Park, Lautenberg Visitors Center, Lower Level. Jason Okin, NJHHS, presiding 1:00 PM-1:25 PM: “The Spicer Manufacturing Company and its Universal Joint: Creating an Automotive Industry Revolution in South Plainfield, New Jersey 1903-1929.� Eugene Boesch, Ph. D, Registered Professional Archaeologist. 1:25 PM-1:50 PM “Archaeological Survey of West Rock Ridge: The Contribution of “Trap Rock Ridges� to Understanding Late Archaic Cultural Processes in South-Central Connecticut.� Cosimo Sgarlata, Ph. D, Adjunct Professor, Western Connecticut University 1:50 PM-2:15 PM “The 2013 SUNY New Paltz Excavations on Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY.� Joseph Diamond, Ph. D, Archaeologist, Assistant Professor and Chair, Dept, of Anthropology, SUNY, New Paltz, NY. 2:15 PM-2:30 PM COFFEE BREAK 2:30 PM-2:55 PM “Cherry Ridge: A Vanished Village of the Highlands.� Ron Dupont, Historian and writer. 2:55 pm-3:20 pm “SSI Station For The Study Of Insects In Harriman State Park A Place To Learn Natural History.� Susan Scher, Professor Emerita, Ramapo College. 3:20 PM-3:45 PM “The Ramapo Saltbox Environmental Research Center: Where Preservation and Recovery Meet.� Chuck Stead, Environmental Educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension; Adjunct Professor, Ramapo College. 1:00 PM-4:00 PM BOOK ROOM Program Chair: Edward J. Lenik, R.P.A., Inc. O.C.C., NYSAA, ASNJ & NJHHS Meeting Facilities courtesy of Sterling Forest State Park, Jeff Hutchinson, Park Manager.