I see out of the rocky mountains, i could see a gap where the piedro river flows south and through that gap i could see the desert of northern new mexico and just over the horizon, just about 120 miles away, is chaco canyon, the largest anastazi site in the southwest, just over the horizon. And in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. Every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. Each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of miles. You could send messages over Mountain Ranges. There are fire signals all over the four corners, rows and fire signals. I talked to the guy who first discovered these signals and he was just out there mapping archeological sites with a crew in the 70s and he kept coming across these hills that had some kind of a little bit of architecture but they couldnt tell what they were. And they decide
Every time the moon came through the gab, they did massive construction for it. So you know it was the time and you know there was somebody pacing up there just checking whatever watch he had, looking at that gap and thinking, i hope this is the day. And it was the day. We stood there and waited and he said first light, we all looked and we couldnt see it. He had a better eye, he had been watching this much longer than us. But then we started to see the glow. And then the orb of the moon rose into this narrow gap between two twin towers looking north into the rocky mountains. And as that happened, i turned around and as the south and i see out of the rocky mountains, i could see a gap where the piedro river flows south and through that gap i could see the desert of northern new mexico and just over the horizon, just about 120 miles away, is chaco canyon, the largest anastazi site in the southwest, just over the horizon. And in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal
Once i saw that, my eye was much sharper and i could see the details around me. I could see a small community, a family of maybe 12 had lived here. When i looked up into the cliff, i saw stacks of rock behind a little spall of the cliff that had stuck out and i realized there was a granary up there. I immediately started for it, climbing hand over hand up the cliff base. My breath tasted hot with discovery. I had found a secret. In past travels i had seen many granaries belonging to the anastasi but they had all been broken open by pot hunters or even by the residents themselves. This one had been built so no one would see it, like an attic accessed through a hidden floor. The structure was rectangular, like a cupboard. I touched its face with probing, diagnostic fingers, measuring it my eyes. 3 feet tall, 2 feet wide and 3 feet deep. I got up on my haunches and lightly dusted off the granaries roof which was undamaged. For 3,000 years not a breeze had entered this chamber, not an inkl
And as that happened, i turned around and as the south and i see out of the rocky mountains, i could see a gap where the piedro river flows south and through that gap i could see the desert of northern new mexico and just over the horizon, just about 120 miles away, is chaco canyon, the largest anastazi site in the southwest, just over the horizon. And in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. Every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. Each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of miles. You could send messages over Mountain Ranges. There are fire signals all over the four corners, rows and fire signals. I talked to the guy who first discovered these signals and he was just out there mapping archeological sites with a crew in the 70s and he kept coming across these hills that had some kind of a little bit of archite
Good evening and welcome to the San Francisco public library. Im joan jasper, im with the department of public exhibitions here at the library. Thank you so much for coming to our exhibition tonight with author craig childs. Hes been jet setting all over the country promoting his new book, the house of rain. We also want to thank the publishers for bringing craig to us and we also want to thank inaudible at the book table at the end of the program. Craig childs is a commentator for National Public radios morning edition. He has written noert new york times, the Los Angeles Times and several magazines. His work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. The book, house of rain, is craigs latest book. Please help me welcome craig childs. Hello. I come to you from out of the desert. Im coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is