Eaton has lived on the Arizona Strip and southern Utah for 21 years. She was trained as an archaeologist and is the Science Program Administrator at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Eaton is intimately familiar with and interested in the history of the region.
Blackburn is an independent guide, author, and contractor responsible for organizing the donation of Wetherill family collections to the Anasazi Heritage Center. He serves as a liaison between the Wetherill family and the Anasazi Heritage Center in a volunteer role. Fred has researched and written extensively about the early archaeological era of the Four Corners. Cowboys and Cave Dwellers reviewed early archaeological explorations in the Mesa Verde region. His contribution to other texts include Handwriting on the Wall in Anasazi Basketmaker a synopses of journal and reverse archaeology in Utah's Grand Gulch and historic inscriptions and the first recorded visits to balcony house in balcony house, a History of a Cliff Dwelling Mesa Verde National Park--Colorado by Kathleen Fiero. Fred has recently completed a yet unpublished and extensive manuscript on the expeditionary of Mesa Verde Historical Inscriptions and the Expeditionary History of Balcony House, Cliff Palace, Hemenway House, Little Hemenway House, Honeymoon House and Spruce Tree House: A History of Discovery, Exploration, Photography, and Documentation. Using Historical inscriptions as a primary research reference. His knowledge and collaboration with Wetherill Family members, and the terrain and archaeology of the Four Corners will serve as a source for interpretation and quality check in the labeling and documenting of the collection. Fred's most recent publications include work on Keet Seel, Ute Cradle Board Tree's, The Wetherill's: Friends of Mesa Verde published as part of the Centennial Series for Mesa Verde and text for Claus Mroczynski's Sacred Places of the Southwest a coffee table black and white photography essay of the cultures of the Four Corners. Fred holds a BS degree and Secondary Science education certificate from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.
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