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ON LOCATION 1 I M O N T I C E L L O , V I R G I N I A At the beginning of the quest, while Angus was residing in Washington, D.C., the very first photograph was taken at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia. This photo marks the beginning of the journey. The picture is of a simple grave marker that sits under the great trees surrounding Thomas Jefferson’s famous home. Only recently discovered, the marker reveals the eternal resting place for the household’s slaves. As with many sacred earth sites, this graveyard is unobtrusive and almost hidden. It lies at the base of a heavily wooded, steep hill crowned by the majestic Monticello plantation. By comparison, the humble graveyard, overlooked by most visitors, is situated in a lightly cordoned area of the Monticello visitor parking lot. Before Scott Angus left on his crosscountry trek, he intended to photograph the site where the ever-prolific Jefferson had written about his excavation of an Indian mound. Indian mounds still abound in much of Eastern U.S. No one really knows why they were built. Their purpose(s) remain a mystery to this day, although many theories have been postulated. Photographing these sites from the ground so that they would be meaningful was intriguing to Angus. Even in aerial photographs they are difficult to discern. Yet when we arrived at Monticello and asked to be directed to the site, we encountered bewilderment. Even the knowledgeable people at the nearby Kenwood Institute and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies said the site had never been located. It is quite possible that the site identification was locked in a trunk of Jeffersonian papers that was part of the cargo now lying at the bottom of the ocean when the vessel carrying them sank during a storm. 1 The date of excavation is also in question, although there is some agreement that Jefferson organized his archeological expedition prior to the Revolution but wrote about it in the early 1780s. Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. (Charlottesville, Virginia) [Sopensky photo] With the elusive Indian mound evading us at Monticello, Scott and I concluded that it was fitting that the end of one career—as a commercial photographer in Washington, D.C.—be documented by a photograph of a sacred site, a graveyard. In death there is life. 1 “The original manuscript delivered to Marbois in 1781 has never been found and may no longer exist, and it is known that Jefferson continued work on the 1781 manuscript.” 6 In “Jefferson's Excavation of an Indian Burial Mound,” Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia « Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello; http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/ jeffersons-excavation-indian-burial-mound [11/6/2016 3:23pm]
Monticello Slave Graveyard. “African-American graveyards are considered the first black institutions in North America, and were expressions of the separateness slavery created. This burial ground became a sacred space that reinforced the human ties that bound together the members of Monticello’s slave community. (Source: Plaque found at the site.) [Sopensky photo]
Page 5 and 6: SACRED EARTH SITES: SEEING THE UNSE
Page 8 and 9: TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S PREFAC
Page 10 and 11: THE ITINERARY 1. MONTICELLO, VIRGIN
Page 15 and 16: C o n v e r s a t i o n s w i t h t
Page 17 and 18: Bear Mound, Iowa. Bear Mound - Effi
Page 21 and 22: “Wineman’s” Bluff, Missouri.
Page 25 and 26: Mountain Ridge, Colorado Plateau, C
Page 29 and 30: Stone Circle, Colorado. Stone Circl
Page 33 and 34: Endless Embrace. Scruff in the fore
Page 37: Undulating Seams. Shot at high noon
Page 40 and 41: Eternal Sky Meets Age-old Artifices
Page 45: Beyond Approach. Cliffs drop off to
Page 48 and 49: ON LOCATION 9 I BLACK MESA, ARIZONA
Page 50 and 51: A Stairway (Black Mesa, Arizona). S
Page 52 and 53: ON LOCATION 10 I S U P E R S T I T
Page 54 and 55: The Stillness of a Whisper. Apache
Page 56 and 57: ON LOCATION 11 I B O R D E R , A R
Page 58 and 59: Arizona-Nevada border, north of the
Page 60 and 61: ON LOCATION 12 I A N A S A Z I R U
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The Winding Way. Arizona Anasazi Ru
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ON LOCATION 13 I Z U N I L A N D S
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Split Tree in Black-and-White. A Zu
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ON LOCATION 14 I E S C A L A N T E
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Bleak Plateau. In black-and-white,
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Sagacious Sage. A backward glance c
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Sage Glance. The black and white ta
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Waves Frozen in Motion. This image
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Holding Pen. So much more depth sho
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Escalante Plateau - the Fortress. S
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Escalante Plateau Crevasse. The con
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ON LOCATION 15 I C A P I TO L R E E
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The Striped Tower The Striped Tower
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ON LOCATION 16 I B RY C E C A N Y O
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Pins and Needles. Depths of torture
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s In the Shadows. Fortress of red r
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s A Void. Forming a dark secret
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Lake Protected by Rock. Beneficial
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Ghost Mountain. The haunting of a l
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ON LOCATION 17 I “ H OV ” H OV
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Anasazi Cloud Crowd. Near Escalante
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ON LOCATION 18 I Z I O N N AT I O N
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In Between. Spiritual energy emits
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ON LOCATION 19 I M O J AV E D E S E
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Ominous Space. Darkened lens highli
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ON LOCATION 20 I N E VA DA , O N T
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s Warrior. Illustrating the narrati
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ON LOCATION 21 I CAHOKIA, ILLINOIS
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Glimpses of Prior Grandeur. A long
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Peaceful Existence. At the foot of
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C o n v e r s a t i o n s w i t h t
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The Mississippi River and Watershed
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Snake. Petroglyph, Tent Rocks, New
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