Veronica Swift Blog

Closed by Covid; a shuttered and later abandoned church on the back streets of Chicago, Illinois. The pandemic of 2020 closed the doors of this place, and they never reopened.

No one talks about that here in Canada, Prince Edward County, in 1860 Wallbridge discovered an ancient mound with a limestone box made up of flat stones, where skeletons were found sitting in an upright position with folded arms…one of them had beside them a “magician’s bag” “Whatever be the origin of these remains, it is clear that the Massassaga Indians were not the builders of the works which they are entombed, since this tribe, it is well known, buried their dead in wrapped birch bark, and laid them at full length a few inches beneath the surface of the soil,” Wallbridge is perplexed at the whole series of mounds, and insists “the skeletons found in the sitting posture belong to some other and far earlier race.”