The Straight Path

by Kathy K McClellan

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The Straight Path

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Kathy K McClellan

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Photograph - Photographs

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The Straight Path by Kathy K. McClellan is a photographic image created for Day 307 of the 365 Challenge (Journal 2022).

The path in this photograph, enclosed by thick stone walls, is located at the Wichahpi Commemorative Wall a few miles northwest of Florence, Alabama (USA). This location is also known as Tom's Wall and this straight path starts at the "quiet place" of circular stones directly off the entrance to the commemorative wall.

There is a stone bench at the end of this path on which one can sit and rest, pray or simply listen.

The entire structure, 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.

It is said that this straight path represents Te-lah-nay's exile to Oklahoma and the curved, meandering wall opposite this one represents her travel back to Alabama.

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November 3rd, 2022

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