This stonehenge replica is a memorial to fallen soldiers from Klictitat County near Maryhill, Washington. It is to scale and was built by Sam Hill, who also built Maryhill Museum, the Peace Arch in Canada’s Vancouver, and was a partner in building the Columbia Gorge Highway.
Bill painted runes on small, smooth stones and celebrated his 63rd birthday by throwing them upon the outermost Sarsen circle. “Life is short, art is long,” Bill states in the video. Two of them ended up on the sarsen, one thrown by the director of Portland’s Shakespeare in the Park production company. King Lear will be presented at this Stonehenge on June 20th of next year and he was there with his family to measure the altar and assess how to position the stage and audience. The other stones landed on the tops of Bluestone circle and Trilithon circle. Here’s a link to another UTube video of this Stonehenge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKjo-t1f4pk
Bill and I talked about concrete as we drove from the Portland area to Stonehenge. Sam Hill had planned on building with stone, but what was available nearby wasn’t suitable so he used reinforced concrete. This link gives a timeline for the history of concrete. http://matse1.mse.uiuc.edu/concrete/hist.html
