May 22May 22 Seven years ago, Lisa Anderson surveyed what then seemed like an insurmountable task: sifting 70 dump-truck piles of soil filled with 18th-century human bones. It took 15 months of sifting and years of piecing back together what they could of the Continental Army soldiers. Anderson, one of the bioarchaeologists at the New York State Museum, would count femurs and 833 teeth to determine that contractors digging an apartment building foundation in the village of Lake George had disturbed 44 graves.Most of the remains were that of young men in their teens and twenties and a few older than 40. One was a child younger than 10 and one was a young woman. On Wednesday, they all made their final tour from the laboratories of the museum in Albany, to their resting place at a new memorial site called “Repose of the Fallen” off Fort George Road in Lake George Battlefield Park. The NY-Penn Military Vehicle Collectors Club carried the remains in four of nine military vehicles from the Vietnam and Korean wars. They were flanked by police, sheriff’s officers and members of the Patriot Guard Riders’ motorcycle club.Read more about it here.
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