There’s a lot of brickwork in today’s Mystery Photo, and with an American flag at the top of the stairs. Let us know where this place is, and send your answers to ebrack2@gmail.com. Don’t forget to tell us where you live.
Cathy Loew, Peachtree Corners, told us that the last Mystery photo was: “Arches is one of the BEST National Parks, in my opinion. My daughter is an avid hiker (I watch) and she took me on a whirlwind tour of the five National Parks in Utah!! It was a glorious trip.” The photo came from Rick Krause of Lilburn.
Also sending in the right answers were George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; John Titus, Peachtree Corners; Joe Briggs, Senoia; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, who wrote: “ “Today’s mystery photo is a series of rock formations or “hoodoos” called The Garden of Eden, near the parking lot of the Windows Section of Arches National Park near Moab, Utah. Like most formations in the area, they are made up of layers of Entrada Sandstone intermixed with a much softer layer of Dewey Bridge Mudstone. The mudstone erodes faster than the sandstone, so that the slow but constant erosion by water and wind over the last several million years has led to the formation of many strange rock formations throughout the park.
The Windows Section of the park was given National Monument Status by President Herbert Hoover on April 12, 1929, and the name “Garden of Eden” was assigned by Frank Beckwith (1875–1951), a local newspaper editor and amateur scientist, who was tasked by the government with mapping the monument and naming its features. In Beckwith’s vivid imagination, the three rock formations on the left of the mystery photo resembled a heavier-set male figure facing an hourglass-shaped female, standing on either side of a golf ball on a golf tee. In his twisted mind, he saw Adam, facing Eden, as they approached the Devil’s Golf Ball.”
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