MOUNDS HAVE LASTED 800 YEARS EFFIGIES WILL BE FETED AT EFFIGY MOUNDS NATIONAL MONUMENT AS THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CELEBRATES ITS 86TH ANNIVERSARY.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | August 23, 2002| | Copyright

Byline: Susan Lampert Smith Wisconsin State Journal

MARQUETTE, IOWA -- You can walk up the bluff along a parade of 13 bear effigies that march toward the sky. You can stand on a nearby bird effigy that looks like its about to soar over the Mississippi River.

But you'll never know exactly what the builders were thinking when they shaped the mounds -- raised earth monuments -- that have lasted more than 800 years.

"You can come up here, and lay in the armpit of a bear, and ponder what it's all about," said Bob Palmer, a ranger at Effigy Mounds ...

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