This past Saturday we went on an educational trip to an ancient city about 3 hours from where we live. We went with the resident historian here at SIAS. His name is Gary Todd, he is from Illinois and has taught at both U of I champagne and SIU-Carbondale. His goal is to improve both academia in China as well as learn as much Chinese history as one could possibly know. He is like-minded and could basically tell you anything you wanted to know about chrch history, Bro Rick you'd be impressed... He's usually the guy we go to if we have a question about something in politics, history, etc. He always has an answer and most of the time it comes with an adamant response. He takes it pretty seriously but. he's still a lot of fun! He is the guy who is hard to get to know unless you open the conversation or initiate the relationship. On a typical day, like any historian, you can go to his room and find him reading a book.
Here recently he came upon some ancient coins from about 2000 years ago. I think he dug them up at a dig site somewhere close or received them from someone. Along with the coins he collects artifacts and antiques from the different dynasty's of China. He's got daggers, coins, writings, and many others. He loves to show them to people who are interested so if you ever stop by his room... ask him about them. He lives directly under us in the apartment building so it's a convenient trip down the stairs to talk with him.
Anyway here are some pics from our trip and his web site so you can read more about the histroy of the city we live in and surrounding cities...
http://www.garyleetodd.com/
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