Marietta, Ohio was the first permanent white settlement in 1788 was thought of as the Western frontier of the "Old Northwest".  Founded by early settlers from the Ohio Company, who had received land from the United States after their service in the American Revolution, they were not the first people to call the confluence of the Muskingum and the Ohio home. The large and mysterious mounds that dot the landscape tell the early white settlers that others were here before. Including the 35 foot mound named Conus by those settlers buried their own dead around, where heroes of the American Revolution lie in the shadow of the huge earthwork. Invisible Ground dives into the rich history of this important sacred space by talking with Scott Britton and Wes Clarke from The Castle, a historic home and museum a few blocks away,  and Andrew Weiland from the Hopewell Culture National Historic Park in Chillicothe. Athens, Ohio's poet laureate Wendy McVicker reads from a well-known piece from Daniel Everett, buried here, a poet, writer, and newspaper owner and editor. 

This episode is sponsored by Just A Jar Design Press in Marietta, Ohio.

Invisible Ground Theme: "Rain Spring" by Todd Jacops

Music (in order of sound appearance)
Todd Jacops - "Rain Spring"
OYO - "My Kind"
Keith Hanlon - "Dressed in Red and Yellow"
Daniel Bachman - "Long Nights I"
Weedghost - "Luxury Umbrella"
Weedghost - "Live at The Shire in Yellow Springs 8/15/10"
Brian Harnetty - "Tecumseh Lake"
Keith Hanlon - "Rushed to Reach the End"
Brian Harnetty - "Moonshine Festival"
Todd Jacops - "Bath Tub Gin and the Sailors Myth"