The Speakers at the 'Lake Ontario and the War of 1812' Lecture

The two speakers mentioned in the previous post, Dr. Tim Abel and Dr. Ben Ford, know their stuff on the history of Lake Ontario.

Tim Abel is a local archaeologist who has spent more than a decade studying  the War of 1812.  (Hey, this War of 1812 blog started in 2012, the bicentennial of the war and is still continuing.  That would put me at a decade as well.)

He is an adjunct professor of anthropology at SUNY Canton and a practicing  consulting archaeologist whose field  experience dates back to the  early 1980s.  He will discuss a broad outline of the War of 1812 and provide a snapshot of  archaeological research done by himself and others in the past seventy years.

Ben Ford is chair of the Anthropology Department of  Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and is a historic and  maritime archaeologist who conducts research in the Great Lakes and Pennsylvania.  In addition, he is author or editor of  five books, including "The Shore Is a Bridge:  The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Lake Ontario" headlined by  Judy Levan, meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service (NWS) Buffalo.

--Brock-Perry