Today’s mystery photo is a celebration of musicians and their audience. Looks like all are having a good time, but where are they gathering? Send your idea to ebrack2@gmail.com and be sure to include your hometown.
For the last mystery, several readers thought the photo was at the Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic site in Cartersville. But no.
Allan Peel of San Antonio himself first thought that, but came back with the right answer: “The mystery photo is of the Great Temple Mound, the central feature at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Ga. The site represents a significant center of the Mississippian culture that flourished in the region between roughly 900 and 1100 CE. Archaeologists have determined that it was constructed in at least four distinct stages over many years, and originally featured clay steps leading up its northern slope.
“Built by hand, this massive earthen structure is estimated to have been built using 10 million baskets of river mud and clay, each weighing approximately 60 pounds. It is a flat-topped, pyramidal structure that rises 55 feet high from a rectangular base measuring approximately 300 by 270 feet, or ~1.86 acres. This means that while it is about 400 years older than the Temple Mound at the Etowah Indian Mounds site in Cartersville, it is actually smaller and shorter than the one in Cartersville, which at ~three-acres in size and 63-feet high, is the largest earth mound in Georgia.”
The photo was made by James Lee of Duluth. Others recognizing the photo were Donald Lee, Suwanee; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; and Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill.
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