Don Rankin, M.D. will present a talk on “State and Local Native American History: From Hunter Gatherers to the Hammonassets,” at the annual meeting of the Deacon John Grave Foundation, Wed. May 29 at 7 p.m. Dr. Rankin will chronicle the geological forces that produced the present day landscape and how those changes led to the arrival of Native American hunter-gatherers about 10,000 years ago. He will discuss the transition of hunter-gatherers, first to seasonal campers roughly 7,000 years ago, and then to the historic Hammonasset tribe who sold their land to the English settlers following the Pequot War of 1637. The talk will be illustrated with locally discovered artifacts including the cache of 3000-year-old projectile points recently discovered at the corner of Old Route 79 and Yankee Peddler, along with artifacts found at Bauer Park. The meeting takes place at the Deacon John Grave House, 581 Boston Post Road in Madison and will include a short business session, followed by Dr. Rankin’s presentation. Light refreshments will be served after the talk, which is free and open to the public. For more information, please call 203-245-4798 or e-mail info@deaconjohngrave.org.
