Winter Reading

Here are 2 books that came to me.

First, Mississippi River Festival came from Donna who was an usher there

for a number of seasons. This is a fun book, great pictures and stories

about this short lived rare musical bubble. I could not even believe how

many great stars of the day were there. I was lucky to see a number

of these concerts and memories to hold forever.

Then, I was in the lunch room one day at work

(in Vermont, mind you),

and was wearing my authentic replica of a Mississippian

arrowhead, going on and on about Cahokia,

our recent visit and the special-ness of this place.

Penny, my coworker, said, Cahokia?? She had just read this

 book by Timothy Pauketat about Cahokia.

It leaves you with more questions than answers, a well written

honest account of the mysterious culture I errantly thought had died out.

These books sat next to each other.

I noticed the tent looked a bit like a Mound of the Mound builders,

and imagined as they excavated layers of ancient burial mounds,

did they release a puff of energy contributing to the amazing

short lived MRF?

Winter Reading is well worth a day on the couch.

enjoy