Winter Solstice Event, Dec. 21 - All Welcome

Imagining the sun setting near Palmetto Mound was the best we could do in blustery 2021.

For the 6th year in a row, Friends will celebrate Winter Solstice at Shell Mound. Come and participate.

On Wednesday, December 21, starting at 3:45 p.m., we will gather at the Shell Mound/Dennis Creek Trail head parking area for guided walks of each trail. The walks will start at 4:00.

After the guided walks, we will have hot tea and cookies at the Shell Mound fishing pier and hear the story of the Indians for whom the area was a civic-ceremonial center from about AD 400 to about AD 650. It was both a residential and a ritual site.

Bundled up Friends members offering hot tea and cookies for the Winter Solstice 2021.

Hopefully, at 5:39 we will see the sun set near Palmetto Mound, which was an ancient burial ground. Each of the past 5 years, the weather has been cold and blustery. Each of those years, we had to imagine the sun setting behind the clouds we were watching. Nevertheless, we celebrated.

Be there, rain or shine. It is becoming a Friends' tradition.