Thursday, June 13, 2024

Snake Heads or "Anchors?"

Repeated Pattern 
or
 the tendency to perceive a specific,
 often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern,
by pastures and cornfields,
such as Great Serpents?


  In Nonnewaug, the stones still touch the edges of the floodplains that were the agricultural lands of the Pootatuck, a "band" of the Paugussett, the “furthest away fish weir” in the last floodplain in a chain of floodplain intervales that start where the Pomperaug River empties into the Housatonic River, at the falls, at the contact era Village known as Pootatuck. After the First Puritan War (Pequot War), European (English) settler colonists from the “New London” area became interested in the acquisition of all these former farmlands. By 1673, a group of English from Stratford by way of New London, arrived in the area, putting in crops in long established cornfields, "quite to Nonnewaug Falls," where there was a late woodland village that became a contact era village, up until about 1740, when "civilization" arrived, putting chestnut rails up over ancient Stone Snakes to become "improved" private property under colonial law...

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