The Exploring a Sense of Place series got underway on Thursday evening, January 17th. We were joined by Dr. Dave Crass, State Archaeologist for Georgia, who came to Rico Community Center to give a talk on Georgia's prehistory. Arriving a full half hour before the talk began, I was surprised to find three people already waiting at the door! By the time he began his talk, there were sixteen of us.
I had prepared for this presentation by securing a slide screen (visible, folded up, in the photo to the right; Dr. Crass is dressed in dark blue and standing to the right of the screen), a projector, and a laptop. Alas, Dave's thumb drive was newer than my computer, and my computer would not recognize it. We tried another laptop, then finally a third. That one finally worked, but we did not have the right cable to plug it into the computer. So we all gathered around as if at a campfire, while he used the laptop screen to show his images.
Despite this bit of technological frustration, the evening was clearly enjoyed by all. Several participants asked questions about possible local archaeological sites (no documented archaeological studies have been conducted here in the Hill Country). One participant had brought aerial photographs of a large, rectangular mound-like hill, out on the floodplain of the Chattahoochee River. Mysteries abound. Neighbors talk of strange stone piles and stacks, a massive boulder with two deep depressions hollowed out of it (an "Indian mill"?), possible prehistoric mounds. Wonders everywhere. And a question: Can we somehow save them all?
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