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I write things. America’s often forgotten past. Fact-driven. Lore-obsessed. Mounds, myths, maps& LiDAR. I understand people.

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One of the richest men in the Pacific Northwest set out to build a mausoleum unlike anything else in Washington. Hidden in the woods near Roche Harbor, the McMillin Mausoleum was designed with Masonic symbolism throughout… unfinished columns, ceremonial stairways, and architecture meant to speak in symbols as much as stone. It was supposed to be crowned with a bronze roof and surrounded by landscaped grounds. Instead, construction simply stopped. More than a century later, no definitive explanation exists for why it was abandoned. The monument meant to preserve one family’s legacy became a monument to something else entirely: Even immense wealth can’t guarantee you’ll finish the story you planned to leave behind.

One of the richest men in the Pacific Northwest set out to build a mausoleum unlike anything else in Washington. Hidden in the woods near Roche Harbor, the McMillin Mausoleum was designed with Masonic symbolism throughout… unfinished columns, ceremonial stairways, and architecture meant to speak in symbols as much as stone. It was supposed to be crowned with a bronze roof and surrounded by landscaped grounds. Instead, construction simply stopped. More than a century later, no definitive explanation exists for why it was abandoned. The monument meant to preserve one family’s legacy became a monument to something else entirely: Even immense wealth can’t guarantee you’ll finish the story you planned to leave behind.

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Most people look for Cahokia in the dirt. That makes sense. The mounds are still there. But I think that is where the story starts, not where it ends. The real story may be what left with the people. 🧵

Most people look for Cahokia in the dirt. That makes sense. The mounds are still there. But I think that is where the story starts, not where it ends. The real story may be what left with the people. 🧵

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The Buffalo Dance

The Buffalo Dance

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In the California mountains, a train disappears….then reappears above itself. A century and a half old, still working every day. They call it the Tehachapi Loop. Built in 1876, carved into granite by 3,000 Chinese laborers using black powder and shovels.

In the California mountains, a train disappears….then reappears above itself. A century and a half old, still working every day. They call it the Tehachapi Loop. Built in 1876, carved into granite by 3,000 Chinese laborers using black powder and shovels.

2,580,085 views • 8 months ago

WTF is going on in Illinois?! Cahokia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico. Its Interpretive Center closed in March 2022 for a “one year or more” renovation. The public was told roughly $5 million. Four years later, the museum is still not fully open. Reporting says the cost is now around $12 million. The roof alone was about $1.4 million. The mechanical/electrical work ate millions more. The HVAC apparently “just wasn’t working.” This is public stewardship failure at one of the most important archaeological sites on Earth. This is one of the places that permanently destroys the myth that North America was an empty wilderness. Illinois had one job: preserve and interpret one of the most significant Indigenous cities ever built. Cahokia should be treated like a crown jewel of human history. Instead Illinois managed its museum like a busted storage room behind a county office. This isn’t over.

WTF is going on in Illinois?! Cahokia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico. Its Interpretive Center closed in March 2022 for a “one year or more” renovation. The public was told roughly $5 million. Four years later, the museum is still not fully open. Reporting says the cost is now around $12 million. The roof alone was about $1.4 million. The mechanical/electrical work ate millions more. The HVAC apparently “just wasn’t working.” This is public stewardship failure at one of the most important archaeological sites on Earth. This is one of the places that permanently destroys the myth that North America was an empty wilderness. Illinois had one job: preserve and interpret one of the most significant Indigenous cities ever built. Cahokia should be treated like a crown jewel of human history. Instead Illinois managed its museum like a busted storage room behind a county office. This isn’t over.

159,211 views • 21 days ago

Chief Iron Tail and Buffalo Bill

Chief Iron Tail and Buffalo Bill

665,420 views • 6 months ago

Johnny Cash wasn’t a flag-waving patriot. He was a front-porch patriot. His America wasn’t built around Washington. It lived in prison yards, coal towns, church pews, freight trains, reservations, county fairs, and kitchen tables. He believed the country was carried by ordinary people long before politicians ever spoke for it.

Johnny Cash wasn’t a flag-waving patriot. He was a front-porch patriot. His America wasn’t built around Washington. It lived in prison yards, coal towns, church pews, freight trains, reservations, county fairs, and kitchen tables. He believed the country was carried by ordinary people long before politicians ever spoke for it.

89,097 views • 26 days ago

There’s a 900-foot stone wall on a Georgia mountaintop, and somehow the wall is the least strange part. For two centuries people kept reaching for anything but the obvious. Welsh explorers. “Moon-eyed” builders. Lost races. The wall never changed. Only the explanations. 🧵

There’s a 900-foot stone wall on a Georgia mountaintop, and somehow the wall is the least strange part. For two centuries people kept reaching for anything but the obvious. Welsh explorers. “Moon-eyed” builders. Lost races. The wall never changed. Only the explanations. 🧵

259,456 views • 3 months ago

I was watching this 1950s footage and caught myself thinking, “Life really moved different back then.” Not cleaner. Not better. Just steadier. People walked like the ground wasn’t going to shift under them tomorrow. Days had a rhythm you could lean on. You can see it in the small stuff… the way they talk to each other, the way an afternoon just exists without rushing. And it made me pause a bit. When did we lose that? When did everyday life start feeling like a deadline you’re already behind on? I’m not romanticizing the 50s. They had their problems. But the pace in this video… it hits you. It makes you notice how fast we slid into a world built on noise, speed, and constant uncertainty. If you watch it, tell me what comes up for you. I’m curious what thoughts, memories or revelations this stirs with people.

I was watching this 1950s footage and caught myself thinking, “Life really moved different back then.” Not cleaner. Not better. Just steadier. People walked like the ground wasn’t going to shift under them tomorrow. Days had a rhythm you could lean on. You can see it in the small stuff… the way they talk to each other, the way an afternoon just exists without rushing. And it made me pause a bit. When did we lose that? When did everyday life start feeling like a deadline you’re already behind on? I’m not romanticizing the 50s. They had their problems. But the pace in this video… it hits you. It makes you notice how fast we slid into a world built on noise, speed, and constant uncertainty. If you watch it, tell me what comes up for you. I’m curious what thoughts, memories or revelations this stirs with people.

147,669 views • 7 months ago

Quick drive by of monks mound. Helps with the scale.

Quick drive by of monks mound. Helps with the scale.

61,542 views • 8 months ago

How are we feeling about Ai Abe Lincoln?

How are we feeling about Ai Abe Lincoln?

15,211 views • 1 month ago

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