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By: James E. Gage
Price: $12.75
Publisher: Amesbury, MA, Powwow River Books: 2018
Edition: 3rd
Seller ID: P0016
For most people, the term “root cellar” evokes an image of a brick or stone masonry subterranean structure tunneled into a hillside. These classic root cellars are only one of a number of different types of structures used to preserve root crops, vegetables and fruits over the past 400 years. The other structures include subfloor pits, cooling pits, house cellars, barn cellars, field root pits & trenches, and root houses. Root Cellars in America provides a history of... View more info
By: Mary E. Gage
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Amesbury, MA, Powwow River Books: 2006
Seller ID: P004
For the ancient Native Peoples, the place known to us as America's Stonehenge (Mystery Hill) was a sacred place. For 2500 years they came annually to hold ceremonies with the spirits. At first, they came on the summer solstice and then later they came for the winter solstice and spring equinox. They built ritual structures like stone chambers, cairns, drains, basins, enclosures, and standing stones as part of their ceremonial areas. As the ceremonies were altered and add... View more info
By: Mary E. Gage
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Amesbury, MA, Powwow River Books: 2007
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: P00015
The America’s Stonehenge archaeological site is located in North Salem, NH. The site consists of a complex of stone chambers, standing stones, niches, carved drains, astronomical alignments and other man-made features. The site served as a major spiritual and ritual center for a group of ancient Native Americans. Construction began on the site some 3000 years ago and continued for the next 2500 years. This guide is a basic introduction to the major features and structu... View more info
By: Mary E. Gage, James E. Gage
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Amesbury, MA, Powwow River Books: 2008/2015
Edition: Expanded 1st
Seller ID: P2008
This handbook is the first comprehensive field guide to both agricultural and Native American stone structures found throughout northeastern United States. These stone structures include stone cairns, chambers, standing stones, niches, enclosures, stone walls, foundations, wells, pedestal boulders, Manitou stones, and other structures. The handbook provides the means to identify, document, analyze, and interpret these structures. 316 pp. 254 Ill. View more info
By: Mary Gage
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Amesbury, MA, Powwow River Books: 2012
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: PW010
In the heart of Cape Ann, Massachusetts is a high flat rocky ridge which stretches from Gloucester to Rockport. The area is crisscrossed with old roads and modern hiking trails. It is best known as the location of the abandoned village of “Dogtown” with its many ancient cellar holes and numerous inspirational sayings carved into the boulders by philanthropist Roger Babson in the 1930’s. The Stones of Dogtown and Beyond offers fresh insights into these well known l... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Amesbury, MA, Powwow River Books: March 31, 2017
Seller ID: PW015
From the time of the American Revolution to the end of the 19th century, Lawton Foster Road in Hopkinton, Rhode Island was home to a small rural community. A few families eked out a living on the rocky poor soils through growing corn, rye, potatoes, apples, small scale sheep farming, and timber harvesting. Today, the land has reforested and much of it has become wildlife conservation property. These lands harbor a big mystery. Over 1500 stone structures have been fou... View more info
By: Produced by James Gage and Mary Gage
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Amesbury, MA, Powwow River Books: 2007
Seller ID: P00011
This film reconstructs the 2500 year cultural history of the America's Stonehenge archaeological site located in North Salem, NH. The complex of stone chambers, standing stones, niches, and other stone structures at the site served as an important spiritual and ritual center for a group of ancient Native American people. For the Native Americans this place was sacred. Construction of this ritual complex began over 3,000 years ago and evolved through five major periods of... View more info