Anthropologist David Starbuck looks at the North Country’s role in the French and Indian War through the relics left behind. Excavating the Sutlers’ House: Artifacts of the British Armies in Fort Edward and Lake George (University Press of New England, 2010) catalogs his findings over two decades of digging, including the remains of a sutlers’ house, the rarely unearthed mid-18th-century version of convenience store and corner bar.