The blurry ethereal look of this photo (taken with a Casio Exilim EX-S2 camera from 2002), along with the blinding brilliant sunset, really brings some emotion to the photo. I have another one that’s clear and not blurry, but it just doesn’t have as much feeling behind it.

The footpath shown in the image carries you across the crest of a Native American burial mound from the 1600’s, which is now located in a public park. The site was being mined for sand and gravel in the 1850’s, when human remains were discovered. The company performing the work didn’t care and continued mining, and looted many of the graves. In 1913, in an effort to preserve the remaining grave sites, a local amateur archeologist exhumed the remaining graves and donated the contents to Brown University and the Heye Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Following the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990, the Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation (consisting of representatives of the Mashpee Wampanoag Nation, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, and the Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation) retrieved the artifacts and reburied them at the site in Burr’s Hill Park in May, 2017.