As you may have noticed, while our New England stonework still hides from me behind summer's overgrown green finery, I'm filling my waiting time making short videos. Each Feature Focus is ideally supposed to be around 6-7 minutes long, brief but brimming with information, and hyper-focused.
My new short is sort of a Sequel to the last one - we head back down Acton, Massachusetts' Trail Through Time, and move on from the Nashoba Brook Stone Chamber to the Stone Prayers found there.
Check out this cultural trail site and some of these preserved and protected Stone Prayers, and see some of the signs and panels from the kiosks filling-in the public on the area's Indigenous presence and on the Indigenous Stonework found in the area, including a posted Resolution from USET - The United South and Eastern Tribes - on this Sacred Landscape.
I also cite thoughts on the site and its preservation from long-time Stone Site Investigator Peter Waksman, from his Rock Piles blog (https://rockpiles.blogspot.com/) and his book, A Shadow Under the Rock: A Personal Account of New England Archaeology by Peter Waksman Ph.D.(2023).
You can learn more about Acton, Massachusetts' Trail Through Time at https://trails.actonma.gov/trail-through-time/.
My Ancient Stone Mysteries of New England - Feature Focus presentations provide a look at stonework and related subjects in short doses filled with footage, photos, and briefly related facts and speculation. These are new creations utilizing both seen and previously unseen work from my archives. The footage and photos this time are from Spring of 2022.
If there are stone features you would like me to focus on, please suggest them in the comments.
A DIY work by your truly, Mike Luoma. Almost everything you see and hear is my work, with the exception of the Music - I use Royalty-Free work by Composer and Performer Kevin MacLeod. Official music credits follow.
Music Credits:
Healing by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3860-healing
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Spirit of the Girl by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4407-spirit-of-the-girl
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Nashoba Brook Stone Prayers on the "Trail Through Time" in Acton, Massachusetts