Posted on 12/15/2008 7:26:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv
OK, thanks, I’ll check it out.
Our local swimming hole had a large flat gathering place on one shore.
We had gathered a couple ton of pumpkin and cantaloupe sized stones for a fire pit, and then ringed the pit with larger boulders for seats.
While strictly utilitarian in it’s construction, I personally know of several Bulls— ah, “story tellers”, that convinced their girlfriends that it was an ancient Indian “pow wow” site, where tribal chiefs gathered for war councils and such.
It was romantic enough of a fiction to get some “action”, and, while mysterious, not as scary as a cemetery.
I would imagine the fiction has pretty much become accepted as local “factual” history over the decades, with very few of us original site builders now around to refute the myth.
I would even expect it to show up as an illustrated magazine article in some tourist magazine or historical site.
The fact is much simpler.
We needed a barbecue pit and we didn’t want to sit on the ground while we ate.
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