TV & VIDEO - July 17, 1990

Not in His Yard, You Don’t: Charles Kuralt doesn’t dig the idea of having his front yard turned into an archeology dig. Students at Wesleyan University suspect they can find ivory trinkets under the lawn of the CBS newsman’s vacation home in Essex, Conn., that would provide evidence of the area’s development as an ivory-processing center in the 18th and 19th centuries. Kuralt has denied them permission, saying that only the remains of a bicycle factory lie beneath his lush turf. “If he wants to work with us, great,” said archeology scholar John Pfeiffer. “And if he doesn’t, fine--it’s his property.”