Ripple Effect

A journal of memories, impressions, ideas and mistakes.

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Another piece of nothing to make something out of. Mountains out of molehills. Or, in this case, some kind of contemplative meaning out of a printed map of the army base at Ft. Knox, KY in 1963.

Okay, what are the salient points - the visiting points - there's the chapel, the post exchange, the recreation hall, Theater No. 3, and the visitor's lounge, to mention just a few.

And then there are the streets. Probably worth the most mention. You have your numbered streets - Seventh and Ninth surround the compound. Probably named by the city itself. Then there are streets named for states - South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Nevada, Texas (East Texas, actually), Utah and Dakota. And now - the U.S. Army's salute to the Indian tribes they decimated: Apache, Seneca, Iroquois, Huron, Seminole. The Triangle Chapel is on a triangle of land bordered by Seventh, East Texas, and South Iroquois.

A mediating influence?

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