Sure, I’ll admit it – I Google image search
for photos of stone walls and stone piles, sometimes adding quotes around the
words and maybe an often used phrase, trying to tickle the search engine so
that I don’t get results that send me back to my own photos or Rock Pile posts.
Sometimes I get some great results from
posts by Hikers, Birders and Geocachers. They are happy accidents but still sometimes
some really great images.
For example, just yesterday, I used the
quoted phrase “stone wall along trail” and some variations on that, that
somehow got me to the Canfield-Meadow Woods Nature Preserve, “a 300-acre area
of ridges, valleys, wetlands, and stonewalls with marked trails in Deep River
and Essex CT,” according to a post at http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC17FYE_canfield-traverse-part-1-fractured-erratic.
Sometimes you get a good trail map, and
like that Fort Devens Stonewall map, sometimes with big dotted lines mean there
are Stone Walls marked on that trail map – maybe. I looked here:
And
then here: http://binged.it/1DsUSa9
And
said, “Well, well – this might have some promise,” and then clicked on the next
highlighted link, only to find what looks like some stone pile desecration:
A Birder took this one, writing (and
repeating the Stone Wall Myth of New England and Beyond): “Another park that I visited
for the first time was the 300 acre Canfield Meadow Woods Nature Preserve in
Essex and Deep River…There are several old stone walls still intact throughout
the preserve. They are the remnants of farms from 100 years ago…”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzKIdta0MfWx2bRdZbvB8a5n684Q5QAZ3y-_r0Z5gKklEmkrEB8Ml_c47FKXweCOHS0K8ZYyZBgXaayb7NTDhP-DfnnES-fjjnLNyvm1RX0acbWtGYif7lrnHdvZ_xwOxvkU_Frw/s1600-h/IMG_3617.JPG at http://brownstonebirder.blogspot.com/2009/04/search-for-birds-led-me-to-dinosaurs.html
This “taking apart of a stone pile” – or plucking
stones out of a “stone wall” - that may be of Indigenous Origin to build one of
these balancing stone creations is a lot like knocking over headstones in a
modern cemetery. It's hardly
as extreme as this below, but still not very different:
I didnt know that there is a place like that on the pictures.
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