In his own right, Eric Sloane was quite a remarkable character. I had the pleasure to meet him in the 70s and his work was a great influence on my collecting early American tools. FWIW, He was American's *first* weatherman. ;)
Posted on 05/12/2016 8:35:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
That explains the Brick in both places.
LOL!
Whoops.
I don’t. Also, there is a level of denial that has arisen, apparently, since the sheer quantity of copper mined in the U.P. in prehistoric times made it into the ‘minority report’ historians’ data stream. Dating a mine or quarry is tricky, because the oldest traces were removed by the second oldest diggers, and their traces by the third oldest, etc, until nothing is left except the last. The modern copper mining dwarfed whatever went on in precolumbian times; best surviving may be on Isle Royale.
There were also many population shifts and migrations before 1492, all over the Americas, and they didn’t just smoke a peace pipe and work it out — it was ugly.
I’ve heard the outline of a migration into the Upper Peninsula (the U.P. above is the abbrev), from a really, really white guy who’s in one of the tribes up there. A few centuries ago his ancestors lived in what is now upstate New York. Their shaman of the time had a vision that they had to pull up and move to a place where the food grew under the ice (what we know as “wild rice”). So, they trekked up to the U.P., found the wild rice paradise, and wouldn’t ya know, someone was living there already.
The Rice Wars began, and went on for generations. I’m not sure of the exact outcome, perhaps it wound up a draw, but otherwise, his ancestors won.
Thank you for the books by Sloane references. Thank you for the museum in Kent, CT reference. And yes, visiting the Gransfors campus would be wonderful. All artists should sing their works, in my opinion.
In his own right, Eric Sloane was quite a remarkable character. I had the pleasure to meet him in the 70s and his work was a great influence on my collecting early American tools. FWIW, He was American's *first* weatherman. ;)
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