so the important people are buried in the chancel. we know also from records, and there's a continuation -- a continual interplay of what we find in the ground with what's in the records and what's in the records, where can you find in the ground, back and forth. and we know from the time period the church stood was from 1608 to 1616, according to record, there were four people buried. four people that would have had status to be buried here that we know. there's the original cleric reverent hunt could be here. he died very close to the time when the church was put up in 1608. could be. and he could -- i would assume that he would be this guy right here. there was a knight, then two captains that died during that time. we have a plan to actually uncover the remains and see if we can identify these people beginning next spring. i think they should be marked. i mean, the whole church was just -- the location lost. although there was a spanish spy map, and that's what this little sketch is based on, that had an x. and always thought x mi

they stand right in the chancel, in the center. you've been to weddings. that's kind of, wow, you can actually do that with archaeology. now i want to get you to come down and we're going to get in the trench down there. and just we'll gather out into here. and we have danny smith here, digging away with dan smith. and he is -- you can tell them what you're doing there, danny. >> okay. if my voice can hold up. so what we're doing is difficult. we're digging into a well. and this well happens to be in the southwest corner of the church. now, it looks like that's just a coincidence, though. but we wanted to make sure that it didn't relate to the church. so thus we dig into it, see if we can find diagnostic or dateable artifacts. it's here until 1817 and it shifts to another location over there. what we've been finding are artifacts later than that date, it looks like it's coincidence. it's a later well. i think it's going to date probably to the mid 17th century. still a 350-year-old well. what we're doing, too, we're actually widening the well. it was a woo

donna who once was the chancel at gw madison. , to give the commencement speech to the graduating classid yesterday. it was quite an honor. especially the fact that in 1967 i left the farm in maryland, and went to the university of miami where i was the first african-american ask of a player there in 1967. so it was kind of a really special, special weekend for me. and it's also special to be back home for just a day. [laughter] because tomorrow i'm heading out to new york. but before you start i want to bring up charles wilson who really -- come on in, charles -- who cowrote this book with me. and acknowledge a couple people that helped with the book. and i don't know if you want to do that. [applause] >> i will speak in to yours. one of my friends told me once you often get -- [inaudible] you hope there's the same thing. this is a project of my heart, being involved with this. i'm grateful to will. it does work. you lie to me. i have great respect for this man to i feel really grateful to work on the edges want to thank a few people that were instrumental in helping us. joan fisher an