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In the ancient hills.

Today, I drove up to Natural Bridge State Park, up in the ancient, ancient Baraboo Hills:

Natural Bridge State Park

If you need a mental picture of Wisconsin. That is the picture.

I walked up to see the thing that made them make this a state park:

Natural Bridge State Park

Years ago, they excavated this area at the base of the bridge and found evidence that human beings found shelter here 12,000 years ago:

Natural Bridge State Park

People carved off a slice of mastodon to gnaw, right here, once, long ago.

Slide show.

४ टिप्पण्या:

hat म्हणाले...

One thing I love about living in madison is I can drive 15 minutes and be in the middle of downtown, or I can drive 15 minutes in the other direction and be in (by comparison) the middle of farm country or a forest.

Of course, that's excluding this damned fourth of july traffic.

amba म्हणाले...

That first picture really is essence of Wisconsin (I'm from Chicago and we visited friends' summer places in Wisconsin quite a lot). And the detail of the photo is so fine . . . what kind of digital camera do you have??

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Amba: Thanks. The camera is a Sony DSC-V1. IIf you click on a Flickr photo, you'll get to the Flickr page, where you can see -- in fine print -- what camera was used. You can also get to a larger version of the photo.

james म्हणाले...

Twelve thousand years ago somebody ate Mastodon meat there; in the 20th C a slew of morons with penknives did their own rock art.

Natural Bridge is still lovely.