Our home is in the Houston/Clear Lake area, but I have some portable equipment,  a  passport, and can travel locally or internationally  - even to countries like Louisiana!

I can and have gone where needed from Pasadena, Texas to Paris, France and have done projects on three continents.

Here are a few recent projects: 

                 The project is to restore the media wall in the living room of an early 1950s modern glass/redwood residence overlooking Galveston Bay. The concept is to update the technology to 2008 and still look 1950.

             This is a work-in-process with 2007 photo at left and research has uncovered the original plans and we are working with the original architect as well!

Winter 2008—contracted by Moore Archeological Consulting, Inc. of Houston while working for the Wharton I.S.D. on a cultural resource survey of the new elementary school site in compliance with Texas Antiquities laws. I was contracted to perform a historical resource survey in support of their project.

Historical Restoration—1950s Modern Media Renovation

Investigative Research—Sycamore Grove Plantation Sugar Mill, Wharton County

Where does a Happy Historian work?

             Investigation of records in Wharton County Clerk Office and Wharton County Historical Museum Archive established site as Governor A. C. Horton’s Sycamore Grove Plantation Sugar Mill built during Texas’ antebellum  period. A comprehensive summary of the site’s history was compiled with documentation that became one of the appendices to Moore’s report to the state.  This published report is available in many University libraries. (Photo at left courtesy of Wharton County Historical Museum)

             The image at right was scanned from an archival process that cleaned and restored the 35mm slide taken when the residence was first completed in the early 1950s. The original media consisted of a tube AM radio and a phonograph that vinyl LPs could be stacked on for automatic play. The planned restoration to include hi-fidelity tuned stereo speaker system,  AM/FM/Web radio, CD changer and connection to a Home Media Server. All without impacting the 1950 aesthetic.