Meet local archaeologist and excavator of the H. L. Hunley Carl Naylor at the Preservation Society Book & Gift Shop on Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 2:00-4:00pm and buy a signed copy of his memoir, The Day the Johnboat Went up the Mountain: Stories from My Twenty Years in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology.

After spending four years in the US Navy, Carl Naylor worked as a South Carolina newspaper journalist before turning to his third career as a scuba-diving instructor in 1985.  Two years later he joined the staff of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, where he is diving supervisor and archaeologist assistant for its Maritime Research Division.

Shared in a companionable tone, this insightful survey of Carl Naylor's distinguished career is highlighted by his firsthand account of serving as diving officer for the excavation of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley in 1996 and the subsequent excavation of its victim, the USS Housatonic.  Naylor describes as well his investigations of suspected Revolutionary War gunboats in the Cooper River, a colonial and Revolutionary War shipyard on Hobcaw Creek, the famous Brown's Ferry cargo vessel found in the Black River, a steamship sunk in a storm off Hilton Head Island in 1899, and a mysterious cargo site in the Cooper River.

Combining his skills as a veteran journalist and well-practiced storyteller with his two decades of underwater adventures in maritime archaeology, Carl Naylor offers a colorfully candid account of remarkable discoveries in the Palmetto State's history and prehistory.  Through a mix of personal anecdotes and archaeological data, Naylor's memoir documents his experiences in the service of the Maritime Research Division of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, a research division of the University of South Carolina.

For more information about the book signing, please contact Book & Gift Shop Manager Cynthia Setnicka at (843) 722-4630 or csetnicka@preservationsociety.org.  To pre-order The Day the Johnboat Went up the Mountain on our website, please click on the link above.