4th Annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival (Turners Falls, MA)

MORE INFORMATION AT
www.turnersfallsriverculture.org
www.nolumbekaproject.org

LET THE LANDSCAPE SPEAK

A fundraiser to support the Indigenous Tribes of the Northeast in protecting Ceremonial Stone Landscape Features in Sandisfield, Massachusetts

Presenter: Doug Harris
Preservationist for Ceremonial Landscapes
& A Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Narragansett Indian Tribal Historic Preservation Office (NITHPO).

Doug Harris will present a history of Ceremonial Stone Landscape Features in the Northeast region and the struggle to preserve them. The hills and valleys of New England are dotted with living prayers of stone (Ceremonial Stone Landscapes) created by the Indigenous peoples of this region. These stone structures were built to create and restore harmony between human beings and Mother Earth. The prayers that they embody continue to live as long as the stones are kept intact.
Saturday, August 5, 2017
3:00-5:00 pm
First Churches, 129 Main Street
Northampton, MA
The church is handicap accessible and on a bus line
Please enter on the Center Street side of the building

You can make a tax deductible contribution in one of two ways

1) Write a check to Creative Thought and Action (memo: CSL), and mail it to Climate Action Now's treasurer: Rene Theberge, 250 Shutesbury Road, Amherst, MA, 01002.

2) Donate online by going to https://tinyurl.com/protectsacredstones

Please share far and wide with friends and family.

For more info and/or to help with this campaign contact Susan Theberge

Please include CSL in the subject line.

Reawakening on Turtle Island

   "I haven’t felt this good in years it seems. It’s like coming out of a fog that I’ve been lost in, returning to the familiar, coming back home..."
http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2017/07/reawakening-on-turtle-island.html

Possible Manitou Stone (Griswold CT)

     When I asked James Finley if I could use this photo above, he sent me two more:

     James mentioned a nearby quarry - and asked a very good question: “There is a small quarry right at the bottom of the hill from where this stone is located. I'm sure most of the large stones used in and around the property came from this quarry. My question is, how could you tell if something was placed by Native Americans vs colonials given that this stone is directly along a road?”

   There’s no simple answer to the question –and, living in a home built about the time, all I can think of is more questions:

  Is that road a former Indian Trail?

    Is there more Indigenous Iconography in other stonework (such as the “wall” the stone seems incorporated into)?

  Looking at other photos, I wonder, how many times has an original stone wall been rebuilt or had stones added to?

    What else is there around there stone-wise, where does it lead to, what is enclosed?

    And I wonder about the house foundation: Is it quarried bricks and blocks, or is it like our house – serpents and turtles and a surprising number of rhomboidal stones??

    A link to the Historic Home (with more photos by James):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Lester_Farmstead

   (And  I took a few classes taught by a certain professor Jacobs whom I’m pretty sure was named for his relative Timothy Lester...)

Chimpanzees building a rock pile

I cannot resist passing this along (ya think ya know about rock piles and...)
http://www.dailypress.com/news/science/dp-nws-religious-chimps-20160325-story.html
 

Clearwater Valley Mound (Canada)

http://cfjctoday.com/article/534573/clearwater-man-finds-unexplained-stone-mound-near-wells-gray-park

Weekends out of town...no blogging

To resume later in the summer.