2025 Annual Meeting

The 2025 Annual Meeting, held on March 29, 2025 at Farmington High School, 10 Montieth Drive, Farmington, CT, began with the business meeting (details are below), followed by a series of presentations on burials from the American Revolution in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York.

State Archaeologist Sarah Sportman gave the first presentation “Living Their Enemies; Dying Their Guests”: Four Potential Revolutionary War Burials, Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Red Bank Battlefield Park in Gloucester County, New Jersey was the topic of the second and third presentations by Wade P. Catts (“Naked and Torn by Grapeshot” The Red Bank Battlefield Archaeology Project) and Jennifer Janofsky (Red Bank Battlefield Archaeology Project). The final presentation of the afternoon was by Lisa Anderson on “The smallpox in our northern army carries with it much greater dread than our enemies: The Quebec Campaign and the Courtland Street Burying Ground, Lake George, NY”. A question and answer period followed the presentations

Preceding this was the “business” portion of the meeting. Highlights include:

• Treasurer Jim Trocchi presented the 2024 Treasurer’s Report.
• State Archaeologist Sarah Sportman presented the 2024 OSA activities report.
• The Cooke Scholarship Report was given by President Glenda Rose.
• Lee West spoke about the activities of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut in 2024.
• Nominations Chair Deanna Rhodes presented this year’s Nominations for the Board of Directors to the FOSA membership in the audience. All were approved.

Lee West and Kathy Walburn were recipients of this year’s Certificate of Appreciation awards.
Certificates of Appreciation for this and past years can be viewed HERE.

Images below are courtesy of Jim Hall.