BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Library Market//iCal Export//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Louisiana Archeology Society Presents UID:27517 DTSTAMP:20260425T010100Z DTSTART:20260603T000000Z DTEND:20260603T013000Z LOCATION:4747 West Napoleon Ave, Metairie, LA 70001, United States ROOM: Jefferson & Napoleon Rooms DESCRIPTION:Joost Morsink, senior principal investigator at SEARCH, an arc heology firm that deploys a full spectrum of cultural heritage services wo rldwide, will speak on the excavations at the Olivier Plantation/St. Maryâ €™s Orphanage at 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 2, at the East Bank Regional Librar y, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie. This event is free of charge and open to t he public. The original David Olivier creole-style plantation house was b uilt about 1820 near the corner of Chartres Street and Poland Avenue in th e Bywater neighborhood. It was purchased by The New Orleans Catholic Assoc iation for the Relief of Male Orphans in 1840 in order to relocate from Ba you St. John. Beginning in 1848, the Brothers and Marianites of Holy Cross cared for and educated orphan boys at the renamed St. Mary's Orphan Boys Asylum. For more than 80 years, through the cholera epidemic of 1852, yellow fever epidemic of 1853, the Civil War, WWI and WWII, an estimated 9,000 boys lived here, often more than 300 at a time. St. Mary's clos ed in 1933.In 1949, a group of architects and historians mounted an attemp t to save the Olivier plantation house from demolition. Though the effort was ultimately unsuccessful, it led to the founding of the Louisiana Landm arks Society in 1950, which continues today to advocate for the preservati on of New Orleans' historic structures and neighborhoods.Dr. Joost M oorsink has more than 20 years of experience in the field of archaeology w here he focuses on energy, federal, and private projects. He is part of th e Caribbean Group, and geographically his project are mainly in the Caribb ean, Texas, and Louisiana. His academic education derives from two interna tional programs, including Leiden University, the Netherlands, and the Uni versity of Florida. His academic research focuses on salt exploitation and exchange in the pre-colonial Caribbean has been published in peer-reviewe d journals and the Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology.He is a Fulbri ght alumnus, received a National Science Foundation grant for his disserta tion fieldwork, and was recognized by the Florida Museum of Natural Histor y with a Bullen Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Natural Science R esearch. Dr. Moorsink's interests range from social organization to e xchange networks and geology. The Louisiana Archeological Society, founde d in 1974 and with a current membership of nearly 300, brings together pro fessional and avocational archaeologists interested in investigating, inte rpreting, and preserving information on the prehistoric Indians and the ea rly history of Louisiana. For more information regarding this presentatio n, contact Chris Smith, Manager of Adult Programming for the library, at 5 04-889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us.  URL:https://calendar.jplibrary.net/event/archeology-talk-27517 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR