tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post982825395313309987..comments2024-03-28T19:28:10.100-04:00Comments on <b>Rock Piles</b>: pwaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-72124041134761951022011-02-13T19:41:39.903-05:002011-02-13T19:41:39.903-05:00I have a picture of the side of the cairn with one...I have a picture of the side of the cairn with one of the pieces of quartz visible. I'm sure I wouldn't have known about it had you not found it. I think it was Fred who showed it to us. Everyone interested in this site owes a lot to you and your excellent and thorough research.<br /><br />Did you find that the Oley Hills site was near the divide between the Delaware and Schuylkill Geophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206319191769614929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-33170727393587106472011-02-13T09:28:41.932-05:002011-02-13T09:28:41.932-05:00About the excellent photo that prefaces this secti...About the excellent photo that prefaces this section, this is what I call the Inclined Cairn. A good friend of mine, John Waltz, mapped the Longswamp site and accompanied me on many visits to it. One day he climbed on top of this cairn and found a small piece of what I later determined was dolomite, encased in a thick weathered rind. Dolomite is not found on top of the ridge, but in the valleyNormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10560996385875773347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-53474822948210105462011-02-11T04:50:13.869-05:002011-02-11T04:50:13.869-05:00For the "truth" of it as well.
And it...For the "truth" of it as well.<br />And it's great beauty<br />And reverence as well.Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-73035089918326040292011-02-10T10:47:58.331-05:002011-02-10T10:47:58.331-05:00All of you guys are epic, really. It's an amaz...All of you guys are epic, really. It's an amazing story of cooperation and enthusiasm, great effort with no monetary reward, work for the love of it.Geophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206319191769614929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-43409675055562248492011-02-10T10:29:31.587-05:002011-02-10T10:29:31.587-05:00Googling around I found a NEARA article http://www...Googling around I found a NEARA article http://www.neara.org/Boudillion/halfmoon01.htm<br />that references, among others, Strohmeyer - some of the other guys named are MacSweeney and Waksman, who ever they are!Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-35619559023279369312011-02-10T09:55:49.678-05:002011-02-10T09:55:49.678-05:00In NY, I would have to say "no" for the ...In NY, I would have to say "no" for the area I am in, which is between Binghamton and Oneonta. However, there is a pattern to where sites can be found. For instance, on the high hills between the Delaware and Susquehanna watersheds, sites are frequent.<br /><br />I often wonder about the effect of logging and reconstruction on ancient stone piles, though. Woods that I see as theseventhgenerationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08596858139083466361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-140228743863326712011-02-10T08:39:31.675-05:002011-02-10T08:39:31.675-05:00That's why I posted it. Apparently you can'...That's why I posted it. Apparently you can't find it anywhere. I was fortunate enough to have these papers given to me by his friend Fred W. Although he gave talks and wrote to people connected with the topic, I don't think he was ever published.<br /><br />Of course you're right about the whole hemisphere being a human-enhanced environment. I actually was told that first by Bob Geophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206319191769614929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-13256760350025922082011-02-10T08:26:07.471-05:002011-02-10T08:26:07.471-05:00How does one find some stuff written by Mark Stroh...How does one find some stuff written by Mark Strohmeyer?<br />I'm embarrassed to say I am not familiar with the name...Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-86627122094328090352011-02-10T08:20:57.949-05:002011-02-10T08:20:57.949-05:00I suggest, again, reading Charles Mann's "...I suggest, again, reading Charles Mann's "1491." The entire western hemisphere, half a planet, was a human enhanced environment, briefly seen by the first europeans and described as a crowded place before the diseases etc. removed the "key stone species" responsible for it's shaping. Again I urge all to look at those "stone walls" as at least partially Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-91640064706147547632011-02-09T19:41:17.984-05:002011-02-09T19:41:17.984-05:00Wonderful quote.
I am not sure there is anything ...Wonderful quote.<br /><br />I am not sure there is anything special about Acton, Concord, and Carlisle. South of the Mass Pike, in places like Holliston and Medford, there are many more sites than up here north of the Pike. But either way, I am so lucky to live here.<br /><br />What about in NY? Are there sites in just about every undisturbed woods?pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.com