{"id":18469,"date":"2016-09-14T07:05:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=18469"},"modified":"2016-09-13T19:44:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:44:20","slug":"effigy-mounds-tour-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18469","title":{"rendered":"Effigy Mounds – Tour and Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Whitewater Landmarks Commission<\/a> will provide a guided, family-friendly and moonlit walking tour of the Effigy Mounds Preserve<\/a><\/strong> (288 S. Indian Mound Parkway, Whitewater) on Fri., Sept. 16, from 7-8 p.m.<\/strong> Learn about the history of the site and its 13 mound structures, as well as the vegetation, which includes an oak savanna<\/a> remnant. Free parking is available along both sides of Indian Mound Parkway. Please do not bring pets. In the event of rain, the tour will be cancelled. <\/p>\n

\"Explore<\/a>Can’t attend the tour? Learn more about the site with other resources, such as the Commission’s pamphlet, Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve<\/a>, the Master plan report for the Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve: Preservation and maintenance plan<\/em><\/a> adopted by the Whitewater’s Common Council in 2012, or the video “Explore the Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

A search of Library resources will find books such as Indian mounds of Wisconsin<\/em><\/a> (online) and The effigy mound culture of Wisconsin<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, E74 .W8 R6), as well as articles including “Monuments and mysteries: Social geography of the effigy builders” (Wisconsin Archeologist<\/em>, 2014, vol.95:no.1, pp.5-28–available in the 1st-floor Periodicals Collection). There’s even an abstract of a conference presentation by UW-Whitewater’s own Professor Rex Hanger<\/a>, “Linear effigy mounds are representations of fossils<\/a>” (Geological Society of America, North-Central Section, 42nd annual meeting<\/em>, 2008, vol.40:no.5, pp.87).<\/p>\n

If you’d like assistance with finding additional resources, please ask a librarian<\/a> (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk).<\/p>\n

Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD\/CD-ROM, online). Check out your<\/em> government at Andersen Library!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Whitewater Landmarks Commission will provide a guided, family-friendly and moonlit walking tour of the Effigy Mounds Preserve (288 S. Indian Mound Parkway, Whitewater) on Fri., Sept. 16, from 7-8 p.m. Learn about the history of the site and its … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2768,35],"tags":[141,178,1401,220,783,231,167028,1954,167027,658,285,219],"class_list":["post-18469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-wisconsin","category-infogov","tag-articles","tag-books","tag-culture","tag-fun-stuff","tag-government-info","tag-history","tag-late-woodland","tag-local-history","tag-mounds","tag-web-sites","tag-whitewater","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18469"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18552,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18469\/revisions\/18552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}