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River marked7/6/2023 ![]() After all, I'd have thought a powerful place would have attracted witches or something nastier (and there is not a whole lot nastier than a black witch), and in all the years I'd been visiting, I'd never seen anything dangerous. ![]() ![]() I'd always taken that last bit with a grain of salt. It is a monument to commemorate thirteen young men of Klickitat County who died in a war nearly a hundred years ago, a silent testament of a man who knew how to dream big, and, I'd been told, a magical collection site of great power to those who knew how to access it. The one at Maryhill took a little more than ten years to complete. The original Stonehenge took about sixteen hundred years to build. Certainly it was impressive-a massive exact- sized replica cast in concrete of a place half a world away. I never could decide if Stonehenge was beautiful, spiritual, or merely a roadside oddity. Adam and I parked the truck next to a deserted orchard down by the river and walked over hill and dale to the high place where Sam Hill's conceit looked out over the gorge. ![]() ![]() Sam Hill had been told that the henge at Salisbury had been used for human sacrifice and decided that it was a fitting memorial for the men who were sacrificed in World War I. It's right on the way to my mom's house in Portland. UNLIKE THE MARYHILL MUSEUM OR SHE WHO WATCHES, Stonehenge was a place I had been to many times over the years. ![]()
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