Gloria Farley Has Died

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L David Campbell

Posts: 28
(03/31/06 12:28 PM)

I regret that I did not post this earlier, but I just recently noticed the memorial section here.

Gloria Farley who was instrumental in the formation of Runestone Park died at her home in Heavener, Oklahoma, Friday March 17, 2006. Mrs. Farley was a close associate of the late Barry Fell, whose publication of "America BC" in the late 70's created a renewed interest in PreColumbian contacts by various Old World cultures in the Americas. His work was widely condemned by the mainstream science community as pseudoscience in the same way as Thor Heyerdahl's similar theories of PreColumbian transoceanic navigation to the Americas. Gloria Farley added her own discoveries in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas to the body of physical evidence which Fell, Heyerdahl, Carter, Gordon and others had presented to substantiate their contentions that the Americas had been visited many times in the past by seafarers from various cultures.

As I stated in my introduction to my website(www.anarchaeology.com), Gloria Farley greatly influenced my own interest in the subject of diffusion, or more properly, hyperdiffusion, when I first got online and encountered the various communities devoted to it. Indeed, I must say that her work in Eastern Oklahoma indirectly led to my own modest discoveries presented on that website. Gloria was working on a sequel to her, "In Plain Sight" in the last years of her life when her health and eyesight began to fail and there were some intriguing new discoveries made at Heavener near the Runestone around two years ago. Gloria's website, managed by Bart Torbert may be viewed here:
www2.privatei.com/~bartjean/mainpage.htm

Gloria will be deeply missed by all of us who ponder enigmas of the past.
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ladybritches

Posts: 18
(04/01/06 2:05 AM)

A great woman...I followed her work closely here in Oklahoma.
Do you know if there will be any archiving of her research, and will it be made available to the public, David?

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L David Campbell

Posts: 28
(04/01/06 2:14 PM)

ladybritches, I know that Bart Torbert was in the final editing stages of Gloria's last book last fall, so I assume that he will also be the one to handle her archives. He managed her website for her and probably knows more than anyone about her unpublished material and research. Bart is a member of the Epigraphy group at yahoo.groups and you can get his contact information there. Though I am not a member of that group, I was able to correspond with him using his email listed there. Though I never met her personally the few times I passed through Heavener, I felt as if I knew her and was very saddened by her passing.

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ladybritches

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(04/01/06 5:33 PM)

David....I received an email from Bart this morning, informing me of her passing. He states that her work is being archived by the Oklahoma Historical Society in Ok City...and will be available to the public when completed. He also says that her affairs were set up so that he could continue her research, and her second book will be out later this year. It's great to know that her work will continue after her passing. She will be sorely missed by those of us who knew her.

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Haredeye

Posts: 1
(10/12/06 5:47 AM)

I was recently in communication with Gloria in deciperhing some Arabic epigraphs from Inyo. I truly hope her work is continued by others.

My condolences to all her friends and family.