Adam Gopnik's article on the 9/11 memorial reflected my disappointment with the site ("Stones and Bones," July 7th & 14th).
The area's significant Indigenous sites include rock engravings, art sites, burial sites, caves or shelters (some with shell deposits), marriage areas, men's areas, women's areas, birthing areas, midden sites, stone arrangement sites and tool manufacturing locations.
Numerous other culturally significant and archæologically notable sites are known across the territory, including shelters, rock art sites, stone artefact scatters, scarred trees and chert quarries.
John Sweeney was arrested in March, up in the City, on a building site, a stone's throw from the Old Bailey.
It offers stunning ice art and is within fairly easy reach of the Alta Unesco Heritage Site of Stone Age carvings.
This weekend, French news sources reported that, on Saturday morning, spray-painted swastikas were found on two memorials at the site (a stone stele and a railroad car) as well as on a nearby storefront.
Formerly the editor of a publication covering food and product safety, Mr. Zhao created a Web site, Kidney Stone Babies, that served as a clearinghouse for the parents of affected children.
To the southeast is Great Basin National Park and to the south, the Ward Charcoal Ovens Historic State Monument, the site of stone beehive ovens used to produce charcoal for smelting in the 1870s.
Almost all nomadic pastoral groups in Changthang now have a fixed village space, generally a primary winter camp site with stone houses, where they store their belongings and return to periodically.
A solar energy panel powers a pump on a small waterfall as a renewable energy demonstration site; a stone labyrinth guides visitors around the Garden sections, where benches and places have been set up for meditation.
