Our Vanishing Ceremonial Stone Landscape (CT)

    Apparently, I’m documenting Our Vanishing Ceremonial Stone Landscape more than anything else these days. Similar to Eric Sloane writing and sketching about a romantic colonial past, I’m instead blogging about and photographing disappearing features of an Indigenous Cultural Landscape that only a tiny percentage of people are aware of, think is somehow “interesting,” much less worthy of recognition, study, and preservation. I’ve been documenting for years the disappearing Nonnewaug Stone Fish Weir, miles and miles of stonework under power lines being ground up for road beds, stones popping out of retaining walls at the family home, and now a simple tree fall that knocked apart a formerly very beautiful “Stone Prayer” on a hillside somewhere close to the Madison/Killingworth town line.

    In a recent Face Book post, Karen Lucibello Daigle recorded a bit of video, perhaps in late winter or early spring, of some tree damage to this Káhtôquwuk or Stone Prayer that I took a look at once back in 2016:

Captures from Karen’s video, cobbled into an image:

Some more images of mine from 2016:

(Note the Manitou Stone above, the "Healing Diamond" below.)

A couple other images in my most recent "K-WORTH 2022" folder:

A Correction: 

Káhtôquwuk or Stone Prayer on S-Hill:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580529@N04/albums/72177720299519377

Mid S-Hill:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580529@N04/albums/72157665915629962

Upper S-Hill:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580529@N04/albums/72157665814497872

Sebaquanash “The Man Who Weeps” by Dale Carson (Abenaki):

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2019/04/some-lines-from-hammonasset-story.html