River Marked (2011)
River Marked
“It’s right on the way to my mom’s house in Portland. Sam Hill had been told that the henge at Salisbury had been used for human sacrifice and decided that it was a fitting memorial for the men who were sacrificed in World War I.
Adam and I parked the truck next to a deserted orchard down by the river and walked over hill and dale to the high place where Sam Hill’s conceit looked out over the gorge.
I never could decide if Stonehenge was beautiful, spiritual, or merely a roadside oddity. Certain...ly it was impressive—a massive exact-sized replica cast in concrete of a place half a world away.
The original Stonehenge took about sixteen hundred years to build. The one at Maryhill took a little more than ten years to complete. It is a monument to commemorate thirteen young men of Klickitat County who died in a war nearly a hundred years ago, a silent testament of a man who knew how to dream big, and, I’d been told, a magical collection site of great power to those who knew how to access it.MoreLess
Adam and I parked the truck next to a deserted orchard down by the river and walked over hill and dale to the high place where Sam Hill’s conceit looked out over the gorge.
I never could decide if Stonehenge was beautiful, spiritual, or merely a roadside oddity. Certain...ly it was impressive—a massive exact-sized replica cast in concrete of a place half a world away.
The original Stonehenge took about sixteen hundred years to build. The one at Maryhill took a little more than ten years to complete. It is a monument to commemorate thirteen young men of Klickitat County who died in a war nearly a hundred years ago, a silent testament of a man who knew how to dream big, and, I’d been told, a magical collection site of great power to those who knew how to access it.MoreLess
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