Stone Symposium IV Saturday October 22nd 1-6 pm The Symposium will take place at Opus 40 , located at 50 Fite road in Saugerties New York More info at Opus40.org and www.hopeskillian.blogspot.com 10$ admission to Opus 40 includes entry to the Symposium During this day long conversation concerning the extensive native and ancient quarrying that took place in our local area, the various speakers will bring their expertise and knowledge to Opus 40, the unique and important quarry based sculptural environment of Harvey Fite, in order to shed light on how the people before us have altered the stony landscape for purposes both functional and sacred. Once the enormous amount of built stone structures, the mountains of stacked stones and quarried water reservoirs that run from Saugerties up through the Paleolithic Flint Mines of Coxsackie and beyond are properly looked at and connected, we may begin to sense and fathom an earth-scaping project that took much more time then the brief bluestone industry would of allowed. featured speakers- Glenn Kreisberg is a radio frequency engineer, researcher, and writer and has edited 2 volumes of a Graham Hancock Reader including “ Mysteries of the Ancient Past”. The title of his forthcoming book is: “Spirits in Stone: Lost Landscapes and Hidden Legacy of Northeast America” will be published soon by Inner Traditions Evan Pritchard is the founder of The Center for Algonquin Culture. He is the author of “Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York”, “No Word For Time, the Way of the Algonquin People”, and his most recent: “Bird Medicine, The Sacred Power of Bird Shamanism” also put out by Inner Traditions Linda Zimmermann is author of over 30 books on anomalous subjects, her most recent is entitled “Mysterious Stone Sites in the Hudson Valley of New York and northern New Jersey” Teresa Bierce is a longtime investigator of local lithic curiosities and is the Western Connecticut coordinator for NEARA (New England Antiquities Research Association) David Johnson is a Past President of the Orange County Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association. He is currently researching stone sites in the Woodstock area, the Chaco Canyon region of the South West and the Nazca sites in Peru. Matt Bua is author of the book: “Talking Walls: Casting Out the Post-Contact Stone Wall Building Myth” which has a focus on the area of Kiskatom in the town of Catskill. Philip C. LaPorta is geologist and archaeologist who is executive director of The Center for the Investigation of Native and Ancient Quarries-(CINAQ) schedule(subject to change) 1::15 Matt Bua intro- welcoming > 1:45 Teresa Bierce 2:15- Philip laPorta > 2:45: David Johnson > 3:30 Evan Pritchard > 4:15 Linda Zimmerman > 5:30 Glenn Kreisberg