In the ancient hills.

Today, I drove up to Natural Bridge State Park, up in the ancient, ancient Baraboo Hills:



If you need a mental picture of Wisconsin. That is the picture.

I walked up to see the thing that made them make this a state park:



Years ago, they excavated this area at the base of the bridge and found evidence that human beings found shelter here 12,000 years ago:



People carved off a slice of mastodon to gnaw, right here, once, long ago.

Slide show.