2009

Couldn’t pass up the opportunity of a picture of Kristina Neumann (below) in front of this ad for Neumann University!





The best parts about the Philly airport: Dunkin’ Donuts, MacDonald’s bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit, and chairs without arms that facilitated sleeping!





She looked so perky in the previous photo! Here’s Kristina (above) getting some good R & R.





Liz and Caleb are gonners, but Alex looks very perky! He must have slept better on the 12 hour flight from Tel Aviv.

On Thursday evening, after seeing Rachel off to the airport, the “remnant” had dinner together at En Gev’s Fish Restaurant. We arrived in time to watch the sunset.





Sunset watching was a fav activity in the evenings throughout the season. Here are Glenn and John poised to get the best photo on our last evening:





Some people held hands as they watched their final sunset over the Sea of Galilee:





A good time was had by all …





Andrea and Cameron Heiliger were delighted to be back for a FULL season this time. Andrea was the illustrator and Cameron moved LOTS of rocks in 4 weeks.





Darryl Schmidt & John Klinkhammer (otherwise knows as the odd couple OR the evil and good twins).





Kristina’s pottery slaves, Brennan Woell and Alex Bednar. Who could resist their smiles?





Kristina Neumann, Assistant Director and Coordinator of Small Finds, had a LONG, exhausting week. She actually fell asleep on Jim Rogers’ shoulder after dinner!





Veteran digger Glenn Borchers: In a class by himself!





Carl Roessler, conservator-in-training and re-builder of the walls, and Caleb Meyer, rock mover and prime wheelbarrow-er.





Jim Jim (not to be confused with Jim R) Appelbaum and daughter Hannah, budding illustrator





Dr. Rhoda Schuler’s “shopping partners” in Jerusalem: Hannah Appelbaum (again), Anna Fink, and Liz Horgan





“Lutheran pairadocs” (get it?) Mark and Rhoda Schuler

Here’s an updated video for the women of ZZ99 who started digging in this square the first day. The interview with Anna and Rachel is from the second to last day; we “finished” working on the square on the final day of the day. Great job, women of ZZ99!

Our surveyors, Mark Wood and Wayne Mory, arrived on Saturday afternoon. Sunday they and Mark Schuler drove to Haifa to rent the scanning equipment. By Sunday afternoon, they were scanning the NE church to provide a complete record of the excavation. Work was going slowly in the heat of the day … so they scanned ALL NIGHT! Engineering student Liz Horgan assisted, as did CSP Honors student Anna Fink, who is always ready for an adventure.

It’s vital to have shade over our work areas. Our two hearty campers who have lots of experience putting up tarps, Darryl and John, worked hard this morning to get enough shade to cover 2 adjacent work areas, ZZ99 and ZZ0. Cheryl and Sandra are the saints married to these 2 guys!





Once the Quilting Bee was over, everyone got down to work. The women’s team, headed by Rachel, is working to uncover (again) the threshold and floor to the north of it in ZZ99. Late in the morning the guys in ZZ0 may have discovered a staircase … which would explain the elevation difference between these 2 adjoining squares!


We were blessed with an overcast sky until breakfast this Sunday. Unfortunately, it was after breakfast in full sun that Kristina and I started uncovering the floor in the sacristy-type room to the north of the chancel. Sorry about the beeping noise in the background. It’s one of the tractors backing up as I filmed this section. I’m still not adept enough at editing to get the excess noise out of the film.





After a couple of hours of working in the sun to get the mosaic floor uncovered, Kristina and I both felt like this!