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them dare the sire and hinted as to its identification. Since that rime, the state h as conducted field work every year and now recovered a total of 30 cannons, plus huntdreds of o ther artifacts. In 200 4, Eas t Carolina University in Greenville, NC, which has a highly regarded graduate program in maritime archaeology, dedicated its facility as the QAR Conservation Laboratory under a memorandum of agreement between the university and the State of NC Department of C ultural Resources. In the 2013 field season, archaeologists also recovered som e smaller guns , two large concretions p acked with numerous smaller artifacts, and a 7-foo t section of the ship's hull. Project Director Billy Ray Morris stated that they expect to complete the QAR excavation and documentation in 2014. The North Carolina Maritime Museum is the official repository for QAR artifacts and exhibits them and interprets the story of piracy, specifically of co urse Blackbeard 's story, at their museum in Beaufort. (More information on the SLaLe's QAR team is at www.qaronJine.org; for the conserva tion lab, www. qaronlin e.org/Conservation/QARLab. aspx; and the museum's website is www. n c ma r it imem u se um s. com/beau fort. html) ... Federal legislation affecting
the maritime community is underway in the US Congress. Maritimers should be paying attention to what's going on in Congress, as lots of traditional fundin g so urces for releva nt projects and organizations are in jeopardy. While there is good news regarding the Maritime Heritage Act (see article on pages 48-49) , other news from the Hill is of concern to the maritime heritage community and the shipping industry. On 30 September, Representatives Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) and Lam ar Smith (R-Texas) published a n opinion piece in USA Today calling for a reduction in National Science Foundation (NSF) funding towards the social sciences . "While the NSF spends most of its funds wel l, we have recently seen far too many ques tionable grants, esp ecially in the social, beh avioral and economic sciences." Other moves in Congress that will have an impact on the m aritime community are continued arguments to
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