TRUMBULL COUNTY Anthropologist to speak at group's holiday dinner

HOWLAND -- Trumbull County Historical Society will have its holiday dinner Dec. 12 at Avalon Inn.
Social hour starts at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. Cost is $25 per person and the reservation deadline is Friday.
Call George Curl at (330) 539-6196.
Dr. John R. White, an anthropologist at Youngstown State University, will speak on "Why dig it when you can read about it?"
White will speak about his archaeology projects, including 40-some Mahoning Valley digs he and his students have accomplished over the past 32 years.
A YSU professor since the early 1970s, White is chairman of the university's department of sociology and anthropology.
He has been named several times as research professor, distinguished professor and outstanding professor.
He has served on the Ohio Historic Sites Preservation Advisory Board.
His specialties include Ohio prehistory, early ironmaking, archaeoastronomy and industrial sites archaeology.
White's talk will cover his works ranging from uncovering a primitive blast furnace in Struthers and searching the basin of Lake Milton when it was drained for dam repairs.
His current work includes excavation of the original Hezlep Store at Gustavus Center, plus his work in and around Fort Ancient, a prehistory settlement in southern Ohio.
A silent auction also is planned for the evening with an early American pressed-glass compote, a pressed-glass crystal decanter, punchbowl and cups, brass candelabrum and several gift baskets are among the items available in the silent auction.