Archeological dig under way at Doak House Museum

Graduate students from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga dig and sift through the removed earth from a pit dug near the kitchen of the Doak House Museum on the Tusculum College campus, above. The students are part of archeological field school being conducted through the month of May on the museum grounds by Dr. Nickolas Honerkamp, director of the Jeffery L. Brown Institution of Archeology at UTC. In their first week of work, the students have located the brick foundation of a back portion of the kitchen wing that was demolished years ago, found several artifacts and discovered the foundation of a heretobefore unknown building to the west of the Tusculum Academy building. Below, students sift through earth removed from one of the test pits near the academy and are filmed for a local television news features on the project. About 500 students from schools in the region are scheduled to participate in the coinciding "Dig at the Doak" program, which will conclude with the students conducting their own archeological dig. The general public is invited to stop by the Doak House during the month of May (before 2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday) and talk with the archeology students about their work. (Tusculum College photos)