IN the spring of 1872, eight years after the discovery of the famous
mammoth carving in the cave of La Madeleine, Perigord, France, Barnard
Hansell, a young farmer, while ploughing on his father's farm, four miles
and a half east of Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, saw, to use his
own words, a "queer stone" lying on the surface of the ground, and close
to the edge of the new furrow.
This ought to be around where my in-laws live. Aly, get the shovel, we're going to visit your parents!
Of course, "queer stones" are now more likely to be found near New Hope, but I digress.
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