Walking Ancient Ohio
232 pages
6 x 9
Softcover
ISBN 978-1949248-616
Copyright 2022
By Buck Niehoff
Walking 160 miles to eight ancient ceremonial Hopewell earthworks, Hope Taft, former Ohio First Lady, and Buck Niehoff, retired lawyer and author, along with several of their friends, explored some of the most beautiful architectural achievements ever created in Ohio. On September 19, 2023, the 21 countries on the UNESCO World Heritage Committee issued their decision to inscribe Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks as the United States’ 25th addition to the World Heritage List. Built by Native Americans between 1,600 and 2,000 years ago, they are complex masterpieces of landscape architecture and are exceptional among ancient monuments worldwide in their enormous scale, geometric precision and astronomical alignments.
The walkers followed in the footsteps of the ancient people who, like them, made pilgrimages between these venerated sites. They discovered that the spaces between the earthworks’ locations—where both ancient and modern pilgrims walked—may have been as important to the sacred experience as the earthworks themselves.
232 pages
6 x 9
Softcover
ISBN 978-1949248-616
Copyright 2022
By Buck Niehoff
Walking 160 miles to eight ancient ceremonial Hopewell earthworks, Hope Taft, former Ohio First Lady, and Buck Niehoff, retired lawyer and author, along with several of their friends, explored some of the most beautiful architectural achievements ever created in Ohio. On September 19, 2023, the 21 countries on the UNESCO World Heritage Committee issued their decision to inscribe Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks as the United States’ 25th addition to the World Heritage List. Built by Native Americans between 1,600 and 2,000 years ago, they are complex masterpieces of landscape architecture and are exceptional among ancient monuments worldwide in their enormous scale, geometric precision and astronomical alignments.
The walkers followed in the footsteps of the ancient people who, like them, made pilgrimages between these venerated sites. They discovered that the spaces between the earthworks’ locations—where both ancient and modern pilgrims walked—may have been as important to the sacred experience as the earthworks themselves.
232 pages
6 x 9
Softcover
ISBN 978-1949248-616
Copyright 2022
By Buck Niehoff
Walking 160 miles to eight ancient ceremonial Hopewell earthworks, Hope Taft, former Ohio First Lady, and Buck Niehoff, retired lawyer and author, along with several of their friends, explored some of the most beautiful architectural achievements ever created in Ohio. On September 19, 2023, the 21 countries on the UNESCO World Heritage Committee issued their decision to inscribe Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks as the United States’ 25th addition to the World Heritage List. Built by Native Americans between 1,600 and 2,000 years ago, they are complex masterpieces of landscape architecture and are exceptional among ancient monuments worldwide in their enormous scale, geometric precision and astronomical alignments.
The walkers followed in the footsteps of the ancient people who, like them, made pilgrimages between these venerated sites. They discovered that the spaces between the earthworks’ locations—where both ancient and modern pilgrims walked—may have been as important to the sacred experience as the earthworks themselves.