![]() ![]() “The people who built the British Stonehenge used it as a time machine whereby starlight - the light of the past - could show them a future of equinoxes, solstices, eclipses,” Heat-Moon wrote. Heat-Moon was startled to discover, hidden out here in the American West, this monument to ancient builders and the dead - and to the innate human tendency to wander and wonder. ![]() ![]() It was built by a starry-eyed railway magnate named Sam Hill in the 1920s to memorialize local casualties of World War I. What he discovered was in fact Stonehenge - the faithful scale reproduction that’s perched at a viewpoint overlooking the Gorge at Maryhill. His eye was caught by a curious assemblage of tall stones that “looked like Stonehenge,” so he went for a closer look. Not long after he drove east through Clark County and out into the Columbia River Gorge, author William Least Heat-Moon had an epiphany. Timmen Road, Ridgefield.Ĭost: $75 each $65 for museum members $390 for table of six. What: Clark County Historical Museum’s annual dinner-auction, including special guests “Blue Highways” author William Least Heat-Moon and photographer Edgar I. ![]()
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