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Word: trowel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sandburg's small room in the Cronkhite Centeroverflows with artifacts of his travels andstudies. One of his most treasured possessions isthe trowel he has used to dig for the last 12years--"My trowel is by my bedside all the time.Archaeologists get attached to their trowels," heexplains, a little sheepishly. "It's seen a lot ofplaces...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnoookin, | Title: Dirty Hands in Foreign Lands | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

...addition to a huge collection of slides andhis pet trowel, Sandburg surrounds himself with avariety of objects he has collected here andthere, as an "urban archaeologist." As a teenager,he made friends with wreckers on constructionsites and brought pieces of buildings home withhim. "I still have a garage filled witharchitectural ornaments," he remembers...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnoookin, | Title: Dirty Hands in Foreign Lands | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

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