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| The One Image Was a Dais Shaped Like An Eagle In the Floor |
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| The Floor Was Preserved Behind Glass In A Special Reconstructed Room |
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| The Only Artifact They Had Found With the Floor Was This Pot. The Floor Was Almost Perfectly Circular and Had 47 Seats In Strict Hierarchy Around the Edge of the Room. |
The National Park includes a nice easy walk to the ceremonial earth structure.
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| The Bridge That Goes Over the Railroad Tracks Looks Like It Might Have Been Part of the Same WPA Project That Created the Visitors Center |
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| The Burial Mound In the Distance |
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| We Could Climb Up To the Top of the Mound |
A slightly longer trail to the burial mounds, and a really nice little museum at the visitors center.
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| Watching a Video About How to Make Arrowheads Out of Flint |
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| Hannah Trying Out a Model of the Ceremonial Seating |
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| Hannah and Izzy Looking At a Miniature of the Ceremonial Room We Had Already Seen |
On the way too the burial mounds we ran in to a woman who was documenting nature for the facebook page of the park. She took the kids pictures with this box turtle.
It's on facebook if you want to see it:
Kids With a Turtle
On the way back from the burial mounds I insisted we go a different route. It turned out to be much longer than the original path. The kids got a little irritated with me.
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| When the Kids Realized the Way Back Was Going to Take Much Longer |
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| Hannah Was Barefoot Because We Discovered On the Hike That Her Shoes Were Giving Her Blisters |
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| "Can I Have Some of Your Purple Berries" |
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| It Was A Very Hot Day |
You'd better send your kids to school soon so they can rest up!
ReplyDeleteDiane, I don't know who home schooling is harder on, them or us. I feel confident that they are getting the history and culture part of their education. Still working on the math and writing.
DeleteThat is so neat! I often drove from Alpharetta to Savannah to play in the symphony, and I had no idea that was right there in Macon! I guess that is partly due to the scant information available on the internet at that time. It's amazing how far the internet has come.
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