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Levi Jordan Plantation Web Site Project

Participants

by Carol McDavid

Many people are involved in this project, and in creating this site. If you need For the time being, please feel free to contact me at mcdavid@publicarchaeology.org – I am happy to pass along messages as needed. Here are some of the most active people, in no particular order (other than the Board members are listed first!)

Levi Jordan Plantation
Historical Society
Board of Directors and Officers


Left to right: Ginny Raska, Hazel Austin, Carol McDavid, Morris Richardson, Dorothy Cotton (not pictured: Kenneth L. Brown, Cassie Johnson, Sarah Martin)

Ginny McNeill Raska
President, LJPHS (Levi Jordan Plantation Historical Society) Board of Directors. Master's Degrees in Library Science and English.Librarian, Sweeny Junior High School. Member of descendant community.
GRASKA@mail.sweeny.isd.esc4.net .

Hazel Austin
M.Ed., Principal, Brazoria Middle School (Retired); Member, LJPHS Board of Directors. Member of descendant community. .

Dorothy Cotton
Vice-President, LJPHS Board of Directors. M.Ed., Teacher, Special Education, Early Childhood Center, Angleton, Texas. Member of descendant community.

Kenneth L.Brown,Ph.D.
Treasurer, LJPHS Board of Directors. Associate Professor, University of Houston, Director of Archaeological Research, LJPHS.
klbrown@uh.edu

Morris Richardson
Teacher (Retired), Member, LJPHS Board of Directors. Education Degree, Prairie View A & M.

Julia Mack, Board Member, LJPHS. M.Ed., Prairie View A&M. Member of Brazoria Men and Women of Action. Teacher, Galveston Independent School District. Member of descendant community.

Cassie Johnson
Board Member, LJPHS. Founder, Brazoria Men and Women of Action. Member of descendant community.

Sarah Martin
Board Member and Secretary, LJPHS. M.Ed., Sam Houston State University. Member of Daughters of the American Revolution. Her National No. is 714966. Member of descendant community.
smartin@lcc.net.

Mary Lynne Hill
M.A., University of Houston. Ph.D., Tulane University. Adjunct Professor, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas

Robert N. Harris
Graduate Student, University of Houston, Curator of collections, George Ranch Historical Park. Very involved in creation of this web site.
rharris@bayou.uh.edu

Dave Bruner
Ph.D. Candidate, State University of New York, Binghamton.

Need a better picture, Dave!

Robert Martin, member of descendant community

Doreen Cooper
M.A. from University of Houston. For the past several years has been an archaeologist for the Park Service in Skagway, Alaska.
dccooper_99840@yahoo.com . See her own thoughts about working at the Jordan Plantation.

Rebecca Barrera
Student, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Houston

Cheryl Wright
M.A., University of Houston.Teaches at the University of Houston Downtown. Did oral history in the Brazoria African-American descendant community.

Kristine N. Brown
M.A., University of Houston, Anthropology. Has worked with the Levi Jordan Plantation project for several years.

Mary Barnes
Graduate Student, University of Houston

Jorge Garcia-Herreros
M.A, Anthropology, University of Houston. Has worked with the LJP project several years, and has been very involved in creation of this web site.
Jgarciah@aol.com.

Ellis Vener
Ellis Vener Photography. Ellis did many of the photographs on these web pages. (Ken Brown did many as well!).
evphoto@insync.net.

Ewing Martin
Member of descendant community.

Carol McDavid
Graduate Student, University of Cambridge

Maria Franklin

Discussant for SHA session on the archaeology of the Jordan Plantation. Need a picture!

     
We will include pictures and biographies of researchers, students and other community members as we are able to obtain them.

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