Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:03:04 -0400 From: Bradley Lamar Anglemyer (blanglem@eos.ncsu.edu) Organization: North Carolina State University Subject: Page Great Page! Where is your story.jpg from, and what is it of? -- ----------------------- "He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. -Albert Einstein
Date: 27 Sep 1996 04:13:31 -0700 From: Randolph Wang (rywang@sequim.CS.Berkeley.EDU) To: blanglem@eos.ncsu.edu Subject: Re: Page > Great Page! thanx for "stopping by"! > Where is your story.jpg from, and what is it of? it's a shot of the "charcoal kilns". they are near the trail head to wildrose peak. the origin of these things is roughly the following: there were some kind of mines operating in Death Valley. they needed something to generate intense heat. the valley floor is desolate as you can see from the other pictures but the surrounding hills are pretty well covered so they sent people up into the hills to produce charcoal. the "charcoal kilns" were built by a group of Chinese workers, who put in a lot of hard work there. the kilns had a perfect geometry designed to concentrate heat to the center. i come from China and i have an almost religious respect for the pioneers who ventured into Death Valley. that picture is one of very few of mine which has man-made structures in it. as i stood in front of those silent witnesses, my thoughts went beyond the mere stones and the surrounding environment and i began to imagine what rich dramas of human stories these kilns must have witnessed... that was the (secret) sentiment i had when i picked the title and the quote to go with the picture. in fact, each picture has a "secret story" behind it and i was hoping the titles and the quotes are conveying some of those magical sentiments, yet without giving out too much explicitly... cheers, Randy