tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29164489.post7127965131262753060..comments2024-03-09T15:14:08.489-05:00Comments on Waking Up on Turtle Island: Sloane Inspired 1556 DrawingTim MacSweeneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29164489.post-35658781626229144782009-04-23T08:25:00.000-04:002009-04-23T08:25:00.000-04:00I'm really enjoying reading this topic. Thanks so...I'm really enjoying reading this topic. Thanks so much for posting your notes. Here in NY I see, over and over again, stone rows parallel to small streams, stone walls that run straight uphill and do not form any enclosure, and stone rows around very top of mountains. I ask myself "why?" over and over, and I can't satisfy the answer with only the typical "colonial people had to clear the land" or "mark their property line". One of the only 4 sided square enclosures here that I can think of off hand has 2 east-west rows with odd rocks (some quartz and some other geology - I think maybe red sandstone) spaced evenly throughout the wall, like a "decoration" - definitely ornamental looking. Yet the north-south rows that bind the east-west rows to make a 4 sided enclosure have no quartz or sandstone. Why? Those 2 ornamental stone walls remind me so much of your large pile with all the different rocks in it.theseventhgenerationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08596858139083466361noreply@blogger.com