Thursday, February 28, 2008

Burrows Cave, Illinois

This is a non-existent place i'd love to write about, but i don't know i want to have to deal with the mail i'd get afterwards: some brave souls have taken on the basics of the narrative, which is worth reading and reflecting on for what it says about the pervasive power of folk tradition and American anti-intellectualism.

Least skeptical:
http://www.prairieghosts.com/burrows.html

Quite skeptical:
http://www.criticalenquiry.org/burrowscave/burrows.shtml

Outright vitriolic, but not without reason:
http://www.flavinscorner.com/falling.htm
and more recently:
http://www.flavinscorner.com/outcave.htm

Oh, you'd like to read something from the credulous side of the scale?
Sure, it's your time, spend it how you will:
http://www.ancientamerican.com/cave1.htm

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