Category: Member Posts
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Local Native Americans Buried in Blue Wing Cemetery
Recently, through the kindness of part-time Lake Delton resident and neighbor Mary Fairchild, my wife and I were able to revisit the Blue Wing Cemetery near Tomah. Mary is interested in Indian mounds and is rapidly becoming an authority on the subject. The entrance to the Blue Wing Cemetery with spirit houses in the background.…
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Reflections on the Paleo Group Meeting of 4-18-09, by Andrew Young
Having been born on the East Coast and schooled in the West, I always lived in some proximity to oceans or mountains. Once I moved to the Midwest, the nature activities I knew as a child – mainly shell collecting – seemed absent. Our region has its huge lakes and evident glacial features in the…
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Stone Age Tool Find
Acheulean is the name given to an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture associated with prehistoric hominins during the Lower Paleolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia and Europe. Acheulean tools are typically found with Homo erectus remains. I picked this particular handaxe up on a public beach in Cape Town. One of…
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If I Could Turn Back Time: Over a Decade With ESCONI by Mary Fairchild
“The Mazon Creek flora is renowned for being almost completely collected by amateurs. Since 1858, in an area covering approximately 100 square miles, untold numbers of collectors have gathered fossils in quantities unprecedented in North America.” Jack Wittry In the mid-1990s when our family first became interested in collecting fossils, one of our…
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Wisconsin’s Indian Mounds by Mary Fairchild
“It may come as a surprise to some people to learn that the Dells area was once in the center of what might be called a lost civilization.” Ross M. Curry About two years ago after rock climbing at Devils Lake, our guide pointed out a strange shape in the grass alongside the lake. It…
