George Stuart & The Boundary End Archaeology Research Center (BEARC)

Driving out to BEARC (25 miles [by highway] northeast of Asheville, North Carolina) is beautiful, and once getting there "at the end of the road", as George puts it (the end of Dillingham Rd., where their driveway begins, is also the "Coleman Boundary" entrance to the Pisgah National Forest [I like that as a metaphor to George's comments concerning the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012, stating "when it ends, it will just begin another cycle"]), I encountered a warm welcome from George's wife Melinda. The library is of humble, but solid design, with chestnut inlays beside the front entrance and Mayan patterns across the top. Inside there is an open floor plan with two levels, appropriate for the many rows of books, numbering over 14,000 volumes. "I knew I liked books at the age of 12", says George of his collection---Makes me think of what I liked at age twelve (the obvious: art), you?