ABSTRACT
Just before I was invited to establish the Archaeology in Annapolis project by St. Clair Wright of the Historic Annapolis Foundation, I started to visit Historic Saint Mary’s City in southern Maryland. The essay I discuss here is too convoluted to be of much use anymore and does not present my conclusion clearly or effectively. Yet it illustrates my involvement with religion in America and ideology in the Marxist sense. Ideology was becoming the idea I was coming to use when trying to understand outdoor history museums.
