Saturday, February 28, 2015

Up to your neck in snow

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Up to your neck in snow, Where can you go To some stone piles and rows? How about Bad Bad Potato:   (I always see something there that ...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Cabin Fever Reliever

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Rocks (with Names) as Seen on TV (and in Movies) To "Hi-ho" to this cultural landscape that may look very familiar click on ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Tlingit Rock Formations

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Cairns Uncovered: Documentary Explores Ancient Tlingit Rock Formations: Scientists are studying rock arrangements found atop some of A...
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Look at the Ancestors Here

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     “Father Gerónimo Boscana…defines Acjachema as a pyramidal form of moving matter (Boscana). Boscana observes further that “Others appl...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Deer Head Uktena

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    A recent communication with Tommy Hudson finally enabled me to track down this story that refers back to this old Rock Piles post abo...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

"Stone walls" on a formerly-fire-tended Cultural Landscape?

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     Is there any reason Indigenous People might have a need to build the stonework we have been taught to think of as "stone wa...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Stone mounds in Hopkinton purchased by land trust

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From the Providence Journal [ click here ], Dec. 15 2014. "HOPKINTON, R.I. (AP) — The Hopkinton Land Trust has purchased just over 1...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

Nuclear Lake NY

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   “Believe it or not, there's a lake off Route 55 near Pawling in eastern Dutchess County with the rather unusual name of Nuclear Lak...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Stone Faces

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From Joanne Hulbert, these are from Holliston and vicinity:
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Serpent Effigies, Earth and Stone

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     “Locality," Stephen Denison Peet wrote back in 1890, "always leaves its mark on native tradition, and native myths also le...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

I'm speaking at the Holliston Historical Soc.

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7:30PM, March 19th.
Monday, February 16, 2015

We Shall Remain; America Through Native Eyes

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David Tall Pine White (left) appears in  "After the Mayflower - Episode One" of this series: You can watch it online here:...
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Saturday, February 14, 2015

David Tall Pine White presentation next Saturday

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From the Nolumbeka Project: Join us at the Discovery Center in Turners Falls on Saturday , Feb. 21 , from 1 - 3 p.m. for "The Langua...
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Sigh

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I miss seeing rock piles. There is no end in sight for the snow. Where are my old photos?
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Turner's falls decision - redacted

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Found the documentation for registering Turner's Falls in the National Register of Historic Sites. Have a look. To me it reads a bit str...
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The Fisher Property’s Indigenous Presence By HHA Member Tom Helmer

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This is in Hopkinton RI. I have to say I like some of the "turtle" piles and not others.
Monday, February 09, 2015

Topo maps online

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This one is thanks to Tommy Hudson:   http://caltopo.com/map.html Very nice topo maps and overlays. I usually use:   mapper.acme.com I...
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Thursday, February 05, 2015

"America Unearthed" ....what!?

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How come we never talked about this TV show that mentions Track Rock Gap within its first few moments? Seeing them get excited about stone w...
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Fort Norumbega

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From The Bucksport Enterprise, via reader Teig T.
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Looking at old pictures while waiting for the ground to come back out

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   *** ...speaking of old pictures, did I ever show this one of a rectangular mound with hollow, bulldozed in half? I took a close lo...
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