Animal Stones At The Wall
by Kathy K McClellan
Title
Animal Stones At The Wall
Artist
Kathy K McClellan
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
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Animal Stones At The Wall by Kathy K. McClellan is a photographic image created for Day 310 of the 365 Challenge (Journal 2022).
These stones, which have been painted to resemble animals, were found at the Wichahpi Commemorative Wall, also known as Tom's Wall, located a few miles northwest of Florence, Alabama (USA).
How interesting that the guest who left these stones chose one land animal and one sea animal as the wall is in a forest but there are seashells and seashell fossils among the stones that make up the stone wall.
The Commemorative wall, which would measure 6,600 if straightened out, is said to be the largest un-mortared wall in the United States and was built by one man over a period of 30 years.
The builder, Tom Hendrix built the wall as a memorial to his great-great grandmother Te-lah-nay, a Yuchi Indian healer who was sent to the Indian Territory of Oklahoma when the US government relocated Indians. She was a teenager at the time.
After spending one winter in Oklahoma, Te-lah-nay spent the next five years making her way back to The Singing River (Tennessee River) in Alabama.
Mr. Hendrix spent his childhood hearing Te-lah-nay's story repeatedly from his grandmother and has even written a book about her and her journey (If The Legends Fade).
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November 6th, 2022
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