Go With the FLOW Field Trip
Sat, Apr 09
|Meet outside at the LWSRB office
An Effigy Mounds Sampler
Time & Location
Apr 09, 2022, 9:00 PM
Meet outside at the LWSRB office, 202 N Wisconsin Ave, Muscoda, WI 53573, USA
About the event
Description: Mark Cupp will lead a tour focused on effigy mound sites in southern Richland County near Muscoda. There will be easy to moderate hiking involved. A camera and/or binoculars are recommended. Content is appropriate for ages 8 years old and up. Younger children are allowed but under parental supervision at all times. The purpose of the tour will be to provide information on the people of the Late Woodland Tradition, also known as the Effigy Mound Builders, who lived and thrived in the lower Wisconsin River valley one thousand or more years ago. Participants will learn about the effigy mound building culture and importance of protecting these sacred sites.
Leader: Mark Cupp has served as Executive Director of the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway Board since inception of the project in 1989. He also is a founding member and current President of Cultural Landscape Legacies, Inc., and is a founding member and current Vice-President of the Three Eagles Foundation,…