Artifacts found during QAR dive
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FORT MACON — The raising of a cannon is planned as part of a fall dive expedition now under way at the Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck site off the Carteret County coast, but recent excitement has been over an artifact much, much smaller.
Now in its second week of the four-week dive, the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources archaeologists closed out the first week with an artifact recovered Friday of a small lid that appears to go to the set of seven bronze nesting weight cups recovered from the shipwreck in 2007.
The set of graduated, cup-shaped weights that fit inside of each other have already gone through the conservation process and are on display as part of the largest exhibit of artifacts from the shipwreck considered to be the flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
The exhibit is located at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort, which is the official repository for the QAR project.
David Moore, curator of nautical archaeology for the Maritime Museum, said the artifact was located about 20 feet from where the nesting weights were originally found.
Source: Jacksonville Daily News
William Kirchner, 84: was 'very old school'
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Math came so naturally to the engineer, he didn’t use a calculator when he balanced the books of Now & Again, the Buckhead antique consignment shop he owned with this wife.
He did it all in his head or using pencil and paper said Sarah Midas, one of his twin daughters.
"Very old school, and he always got it right, balanced every time," said his other daughter Joan Kirchner.
William Joseph Kirchner, of Atlanta, called Bill by most who knew him, died Sept. 14 of complications associated with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84. His body was cremated. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Our Lady of the Assumption, 1350 Hearst Dr., Atlanta. SouthCare Cremation Society and Memorial Centers of Alpharetta is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Kirchner was a native of Detroit and served in the U.S. Navy. He graduated from Georgetown University with an engineering degree and spent time building homes in Detroit and on Hilton Head Island, before moving to Atlanta.
Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution