A couple weeks back, I went to visit Seven Pillars along the Mississinewa River, a sacred site for the Miami Indians. I drove from Marion, where my wife grew up and where her mother still lives, along the Frances Slocum Trail and the reservoir.
Random thoughts:
- tributary
- Miami’s sacred place, their last place
- Surprised it hasn’t been strip-mined or flooded
- limestone, luminscent
- banks of limestone
- forgot my camera, took some photos with my phone before it died
- gray water
- You should read Jared Carter. I should read more of him.
- limestone cliffs twenty or thirty feet high
- trash
- cedars growing in crevices in the limestone
- rooms and grottos
- ACRES Land Trust
- A 2′x2′ lid to a metal safe
- Peru, where the Mississinewa dumps into the Wabash
- Peru, where Cathy Day is from, the place that inspired The Circus in Winter
- Peru, where Circus Lane is down the road from the cemetery where the last Miami War Chief, Francis Godfroy, is buried
- The dam for the Mississinewa Reservoir seems entirely too large
- Carter’s poem Mississinewa Reservoir
- Near Marion, War of 1812 battlefields, where the Miami and other tribes began to feel the final push for removal
- LaFountaine and Fabulous 105
