Mystery Hill AKA America's Stonehenge - Salem, New Hampshire

10 October 2021

Story #1035

R. Linda:

Since there isn't much going on, I decided to take you on a photographic journey of New England in the fall. This way you know what all the hub-bub is about when you hear someone from New England or even a transplanted Irishman say, "It is leaf peeper season!" which is the New England way of saying the fall tourists who come solely to enjoy the colours, quaint inns, and our foods, invade us again after the big summer surge. The difference in this set of tourists is that they are usually older, and there are not so many kiddos along for the trip. The reason is the kiddos get bored and would rather be doing something at a water park (all closed now) than being dragged along as their elders, ooh and ahh over leaves. 

With that in mind, I will start with three photographs of a place you either know about or don't know about. It's called America's Stonehenge, located in southern New Hampshire in the town of Salem. I have visited it a few times, and it is magical. There is a feeling of ancientness, and there should be; the stones are OLD. They are set up in a pattern like our Stonehenge across the pond, only these stones are slabs built into tunnels, and some stand on their own, not as tall as what we are used to seeing on Salisbury Plain. However, the place is prominent (30 acres), and it be shaped in a gigantic circle with what may be a sacrificial table thrown in. I am not a travel agent, so if you are interested, look it up. That's what I tell me kids: "Self-educate me boyos, self-educate!"

Without further ado, here are three pictures to whet the old appetite for travel, knowledge, or both!

If you tunnel inside, you can throw your voice so it sounds otherworldly

From inside one of the stone tunnels

Inside - one must remember these structures are said to be pre-Columbian, so this would be very awesome to visit

Gabe

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