He left from Columbia, Mo., drove east to North Carolina and then stuck close to the boundaries of the nation and the back roads that connect small towns. His marriage was failing and he’d lost his teaching job at the University of Missouri. In 1978, Heat-Moon went on a huge clockwise wander around the outskirts of the United States as he was taking stock of a life journey that had suffered some grave interruptions. “Across America I had been looking for something similar.
“The people who built the British Stonehenge used it as a time machine whereby starlight - the light of the past - could show them a future of equinoxes, solstices, eclipses,” Heat-Moon wrote. Heat-Moon was startled to discover, hidden out here in the American West, this monument to ancient builders and the dead - and to the innate human tendency to wander and wonder. It was built by a starry-eyed railway magnate named Sam Hill in the 1920s to memorialize local casualties of World War I. What he discovered was in fact Stonehenge - the faithful scale reproduction that’s perched at a viewpoint overlooking the Gorge at Maryhill. His eye was caught by a curious assemblage of tall stones that “looked like Stonehenge,” so he went for a closer look.
Not long after he drove east through Clark County and out into the Columbia River Gorge, author William Least Heat-Moon had an epiphany. Timmen Road, Ridgefield.Ĭost: $75 each $65 for museum members $390 for table of six. What: Clark County Historical Museum’s annual dinner-auction, including special guests “Blue Highways” author William Least Heat-Moon and photographer Edgar I.
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