Welcome

This website contains accumulated—and accumulating—items from my 80 continuing years.  The material is both professional and personal:  Professional topics include archaeological and anthropological projects, teaching materials, publications, news items and more.  Personal information includes reminiscences, photographs, and family history as well as posts and pages dedicated to my interests in travel, natural history, yoga/meditation, religion/philosophy, politics, and living in our Cedar Creek Community.

The site consists dated journal entries as well as pages accessed from the Main Menu. These pages primarily have to do with my professional history. True to the site subtitle, the pages are not complete, rather they are accumulating as I have time to add material. I will appreciate comments and/or suggestions on either posts or pages.

My retirement days in Cedar Creek are spent working on our home and “farm,” playing with our dog Gryffindor, walking and birding the countryside, and entertaining dear friends, both personal and professional.   If you like, please contact me via this website and come visit!  

This a photo our son Sam took of me on a a recent visit to the North Carolina mountains. In retirement I have been honored with the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, as well as with the J. C. Harrington Medal from the Society for Historical Archaeology for my lifetime contributions to the field. (But, I’m anticipating a good bit more lifetime, and I hope to make a few more contributions as the future comes along 🙂 ) LF

Acknowlegments

This site began when my dear wife, Aline, encouraged me to set up a website to promote a recent book. It came to being when my computer-skilled friend, Gary Ward, offered to coach and assist in creating the site.  Later, the project evolved as my friends Irina Cromer and Kelly Goldberg suggested I write something autobiographical.  Through the suggestions and help of these friends, I’ve found a platform to gather family and professional history for those who may be interested and to informally engage and write about my current interests.  I also appreciate responses to this web site from our adult children, Sam Ferguson and Amy Ferguson Cook, who most always show encouragement for the various things, whacky and serious, their father sets out to do.