Dr. Andrew J. Smith

Andrew J. Smith Ph.D. in archaeology, a D.Sc. in botany and mycology and also a Th.D. in theology. He holds a M.S. in environmental science, and M.A. in history, a B.S. in earth and life sciences and a B.A. in integrated social sciences. He has studied German at Berlitz and uses it often. The Dr. is a professor of history at Mount St. Mary College, and a professor of history and science at SUNY Empire State College, and he has also taught these subjects at Rockland Community College. He has been an adult education instructor at the North Rockland Adult Education Institute since 1989 in history, nature studies and conducts field research exercises with them too. For twelve years he has been a home instructor in social studies and all sciences at the Mahwah, NJ board of education. He formerly wrote two weekly newspaper columns on history and science. Among his achievements are a guest naturalist on CBS Today, a guest historian on CSPAN's De Toqueville in America Tour, he has been a frequent guest on public access TV for over two decades. Dr. Smith has been published many times with over 100 articles to his credit in history, botany, zoology, earth science, and technical subjects as published by the Trailside Museums, a subdivision of the New York State Museum. He co-authored a paper which was presented before the National Food Chemists annual meeting in Boston, Massachussetts in 1998 (the subject was about the chemical analysis of an edible plant where theretofore had never been studied). He was the field and landscape archaeologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and interagency liaison between the USACE and the N.Y.S. Department of Parks, and Recreation, and Historic Preservation for the advanced team site survey of an abandoned military munitions depot. Dr. Smith served on Congressman Benjamin Gilman's (NYS 20th Congressional District)advisory committees on the subjects of science and technology, the environment, labor, and veteran's affairs. Dr. Smith is an inductee in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who In Emerging Leaders, a previous member of Mensa, he maintains memberships in the Institute for Field Archaeologists, North American Mycological Society, American Botanical Association, National Forestry Association and others. He is founder of the Center For the Study of Natural and Historical Anomalies, the Rural Culture Society, National Public Employee Information Bureau, and the Society of Contrarian Speakers and Writers. Dr. Smith remains active in Free and Accepted Masons,the North Rockland Sports Hall of Fame, conducts a hospice ministry, and continues to lecture when the opportunity arises.

Friends and strangers can do you dirty but to really get screwed it takes a relative.

Hobbies:

politics and government, photography, hiking, fishing, target shooting, horseback riding, public speaking, history, archaeology, natural science, landscape sketching and painting, old movies, old music, and old friends.

Favorite Movies:

Casablanca (head an shoulders above the rest), Caine Mutiny, Big Sleep, Maltese Falcon I guess you can tell I like Bogey), Harvey, the Man From Laramie, Strategic Air Command (I like Jimmy Stewart too), El Dorado, True Grit, Rio Lobo (and the Duke), Mister Roberts, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse, Arsenic and Old Lace (Can't forget Cary Grant and Hank Fonda), sci fi classics like Forbidden Planet (now there's a thinking man's movie), the Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, It the Terror From Beyond Space (from which the Aliens series was stolen), Them, and many more.

Favorite TV Shows:

Andy Griffith, Green Acres, Leave it to Beaver, Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, Nova, Cosmos,

Favorite Music:

oldies (Elvis, Beatles, 50s, 60s, early 70s music), classic country (Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline), music of 30s and 40s, classical (Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, chopin, Liszt, Johann Strauss), very eclectic except for this gop that passes for music today.

Favorite Books:

The Devil's Guard (Only book I ever finished in one sitting), Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation, America BC, American Dawn, Columbus Was Last, The First Americans, The Search For Hidden Animals.