We've been out of town: marked the achievement of vaccine immunity by visiting our friends in Columbus, Ohio again. Blue blue skies made the bright spring leaves especially luminous - as we drove across Pennsylvania it sometimes felt like the photographic negatives of the
fall purples, reds and oranges we saw on our last trip over, in October. For this second visit we got a deeper view of Ohio history,
both geological and human. The inter- and post-glacially cut
Clifton Gorge (below) was a dramatic contrast to the flatness of the landscape. But most exciting, for me, were the mutely monumental
Newark Earthworks, the largest surviving complex of the Hopewell culture, recently in the
news, as the Moundbuilders Country Club complicates nomination of the site as UNESCO World Heritage.
both geological and human. The inter- and post-glacially cut Clifton Gorge (below) was a dramatic contrast to the flatness of the landscape. But most exciting, for me, were the mutely monumental Newark Earthworks, the largest surviving complex of the Hopewell culture, recently in the news, as the Moundbuilders Country Club complicates nomination of the site as UNESCO World Heritage.
