Aviles Street ArchaeologyDigg St. Augustine
Aviles Street Archaeology Discovery DIG IT St. Augustine Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline, City of St Augustine Archaeologist Carl Halbirt and filmmaker Bruce Merwin capture groundbreaking video at a dig on Aviles Street in historic St Augustine, Florida, August 17, 2010. Carl Halbirt found evidence of a church circa 1572, the location of the first parish church of St Augustine, Nuestra Senora de Los Remedios (Our Lady of the Remedies). "This was an exciting shoot for staugustinevideo.com. As a St Augustine resident I am very thankful that the city employs an archaeologist as devoted and qualified as Carl Halbirt, I hope to document many of Carl's discoveries if I may," said filmmaker Bruce Merwin. Aviles Street Archaeology is fun to consider. America's first street, visitors love Aviles Street, it's narrow, inviting, clean, has diverse shopping and feels very American. St. Augustine archaeologist Carl Halbirt has moved on to other streets in St Augustine and you can not tell he was digging there but you can feel the warm historical glow that seems to emote from the street where he was digging. Cool Job RemediesOK we all need a cool job like St. Augustine's archaeologist Carl Halbirt who digs Aviles Street Archaeology in St Augustine Fla. One of the greatest St Augustine attractions for archaeologist and visitors is to see Carl Halbirt working.I talk to people al the time who seem to not enjoy their work. I am reminded of the saying: "Find something you love to do and you will never have to work another day in your life", I am paraphrasing. When you come to St. Augustine and get to see Mr. Halbirt dig or better yet come to St. Augustine and dig with Mr. Halbirt you will have an understanding of loving your work, or so it seemed to me when I filmed him unearthing a site on Aviles Street. It was fun to witness. There were two men (who remain nameless) standing over a large hole sort of, in a very nice way, nay saying Mr. Halbirt and his efforts. They had good reason to nay say in that they wanted to make the deadline to open up Availes street to traffic again. The street had been dug up to re-brick the street and Mr. Halbirt had taken advantage of the dig by the street people to make a dig of his own. So the men were poking good fun at Mr. Halbirt and his efforts to find something historic. Undaunted by their kidding he went on discovering history and it occurred to me that he was being paid to discover and they were being paid to stand around and poke fun of others. In truth they were doing their jobs too, they were suggesting that the road would be completed very soon and that Mr. Halbirt needed to finish up and get out of the road. This may happen all the time to Mr. Halbirt and other archaeologist, but it was fun to be there filming when a brief social inter play between men happened and when one job seemed more fun then another job. It was more fun for me to be there when this great discovery was made. The evidence of a church circa 1572, the location of the first parish church of St Augustine, Nuestra Senora de Los Remedios (Our Lady of the Remedies).
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