tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post115147913561148705..comments2024-03-14T01:33:48.461-04:00Comments on <b>Rock Piles</b>: Unseen Neighbors by Thomas L. Doughtonpwaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-75874132325499250762009-11-10T15:10:04.773-05:002009-11-10T15:10:04.773-05:00Sorry fot the typo Mr Doughton. and part of my po...Sorry fot the typo Mr Doughton. and part of my post was omitted - the sentence referrencing the historical burial site near hatchet pond should state "properly preserved, protected, and honored." KWGUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17165685387096126968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-41306226024218601292009-11-10T15:07:31.296-05:002009-11-10T15:07:31.296-05:00I grew up hiking the Nipmuc forest which borders s...I grew up hiking the Nipmuc forest which borders southbridge and includes the Hatchet pond area often referrenced in Mr Thomas Dighton's writings. Kudo's Tom for your thorough work, my former friend and professor Dr Vincent Powers would be very proud of your research, he was big on leveraging geneology and local town records to uncover the truth. OK, so you may not ever see this since Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17165685387096126968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-1151621955805323142006-06-29T18:59:00.000-04:002006-06-29T18:59:00.000-04:00Brag appreciated with appropriate envy!Will be int...Brag appreciated with appropriate envy!<BR/><BR/>Will be interested to hear what you learn.Geophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206319191769614929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-1151618610575430942006-06-29T18:03:00.000-04:002006-06-29T18:03:00.000-04:00Well maybe I'll make a project out of interviewing...Well maybe I'll make a project out of interviewing Mavor, that might be interesting and I think I am going to see him on the 4th (I am bragging).pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-1151601583149167762006-06-29T13:19:00.000-04:002006-06-29T13:19:00.000-04:00I have read some of Strohmeyer's writings in which...I have read some of Strohmeyer's writings in which he describes an encounter with some native descendants who got in touch with him because of something he wrote about the stonework. An extraordinary account, really, but he seemed to have rewritten it a few times and blurred the fiction/nonfiction line a bit. But whether he'd heard about the idea somewhere else I do not know.<BR/><BR/>His early Geophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206319191769614929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-1151593199738137242006-06-29T10:59:00.000-04:002006-06-29T10:59:00.000-04:00Well I bet it goes back to Byron Dix. I have asked...Well I bet it goes back to Byron Dix. I have asked Mavor how he got interested in the subject and he said his interest came from Alexander Thom's work with European megaliths - Mavor wanted to try out those techniques on the locally available stone walls. <BR/><BR/>There is little doubt that the idea of Indian stonework was floating around in the mid 70's but was it Strohmeyer or Dix or people pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-1151572767928381612006-06-29T05:19:00.000-04:002006-06-29T05:19:00.000-04:00Thanks. I'm pretty much aware of what you're sayin...Thanks. I'm pretty much aware of what you're saying. The land they'd lived on was sacred to these people, and in one guise or another they stuck around, teaching their children at least some of the old ways.<BR/><BR/>But I'm curious about Mavor and Dix in particular, and how they came to the understanding they did, how they came to a shamanic view of the landscape at a time when the whole Geophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206319191769614929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-1151562804936409442006-06-29T02:33:00.000-04:002006-06-29T02:33:00.000-04:00I have a few moments and I want to expound a bit. ...I have a few moments and I want to expound a bit. <BR/><BR/>If you study many 19th century texts about Indians, there are many contradictions. There was a romanticized view of a, "noble race of savages," that had long since, "vanished." At the same time, the texts talk of, "roving bands of gypsies," who are, "dirty, drunken vagabonds." There are also accounts of Indians who owned property, held JimPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07079857211571520647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-1151544503054519712006-06-28T21:28:00.000-04:002006-06-28T21:28:00.000-04:00I can only speak for myself and the research I hav...I can only speak for myself and the research I have done. The evidence has always been there -- it's just been scattered across local histories. One had to visit multiple local libraries and town halls to gather all the information. In past times, historians didn't care enough to do the work, and instead relied on 19th century scholars who were particularly biased.<BR/><BR/>One of the wonderful JimPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07079857211571520647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-1151538907481900222006-06-28T19:55:00.000-04:002006-06-28T19:55:00.000-04:00Very interesting. Does anyone know how Mavor and D...Very interesting. Does anyone know how Mavor and Dix came to the knowledge of "invisible Indians" and the shamanic view of the landscape they evidence in Manitou? Was one of them part native? Or did they have an FFC? They don't say, but it can't have come out of nowhere.Geophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206319191769614929noreply@blogger.com