The exploration of a monumental stone formation at Penn Bluff, Alabama continues with using ImageJ software. Here, 3-D surface plots of the stone formation reveal different aspects of the site.⍾⍾What we find is that mystery and beauty are intertwined, as we try to discern the nature of the mystery form before us.⍾⍾Come explore this site with your third eye and become tuned to the essences found at Penn Bluff.

Unusual designs found in a stone formation near Addison, Alabama are explored by using DStretch software, a popular rock art tool. Beauty and potential Indigenous connection are suggested when subtle shades are amplified or turned into varied colors. The pairing of heightened contrast and/or coloring with a Haiku also seeks to penetrate the deeper meaning of the forms present. Come and experience this view of the stone formation at Penn Bluff and...

Archetypal images from world art and architecture are overlaid upon a monumental stone formation found at Penn Bluff near Addison Alabama. The resonance created by both proportion and meaning helps explain the strong feeling of Presence found at the site. Come, take a journey in synchronicity, in which an apparent natural stone formation is matched with artistic creations from an array of civilizations.

A second mystery stone has been found by the Shenandoah River near Holy Cross Abbey in Northern Virginia. There are powerful suggested forms, made by either Indigneous hands, natural and/or sacred forces, or some combination of the three. Take a look yourself and see what is suggested to you and whether human or sacred forms are evoked.

Some of the twentieth century's most important artists and writers--from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Frank O'Hara to Jean Stafford--lived and worked on the East End of Long Island years before it assumed an alternate identity as the Hamptons. The home they made there, and its effect on their work, is the subject of these searching, lyrical vignettes by the critic and poet Robert Long. Pollock moved to Springs because he thought he wanted to...

A Mystery Stone found by the Shenandoah River has designs that resonate with ancient Mississippian art. Could these markings be intentional and inspired by a culture that existed almost a thousand years ago? A variety of archetypal images appear to be present on the stone, such as Birdman, twinned humans and netherworld creatures. When designs and mandalas from Southeastern ceremonial art are overlain atop our dinted stone, we find that beauty and...

Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women is a celebration of the contributions of Native American women to America's cultural heritage. Focusing on both traditional and modern art and offering an historical and stylistic overview, Broder's book includes the work of Native American women belonging to more than forty tribes across the United States and Canada. Earth Songs, Moon Dreams features historically important works by pioneer...

Echoing the muscular rhythms of the heartbeat, the poems in this stunning collection alternate between contraction and expansion. Eric Gansworth explores the act of enduring, physically, historically, and culturally. A member of the Haudenosaunee tribe, Gansworth expresses the tensions experienced by members of a marginalized culture struggling to maintain tradition within a much larger dominant culture. With equal measures of humor, wisdom, poignancy,...

A gripping tale of mystery, morbidity and death, with a twelve-year-old girl in the midst of it all, and an entire clan of native Cherokees fazed with extinction. The denizens of the Great Smoky Mountains will resort to unspeakable means to find a solution to their enduring predicament.

A beautiful tablet-like mystery stone has been found by the Shenandoah River, near Berryville, Virginia. Underneath its brown-orange patina, peck-marked shapes reveal a beautiful crystalline heartstone underneath and intriguing designs.⍾⍾The author takes you on a tour of the stone, relating how its natural form with markings makes for designs which resonate with Eastern Woodland cosmology of early America. This masterwork can serve as a primer...