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As Seen On TV?
Not Wednesday But Rainy Friday Stonework in Jericho, Vermont
As seen on TV? No. Not really… Though I haven’t watched, I’ve been told the Netflix show WEDNESDAY (as in Wednesday Addams of The Addams Family) takes place in a fictionalized version of my Vermont, in the town of Jericho. But, from what I hear, it’s shot in eastern Europe, and the few pictures I’ve seen do not look like anywhere nearby.
So, no sign of Wednesday in Jericho, Vermont on this rainy Friday afternoon. The weather was a surprise; bright and sunny when I left my home in Burlington, Vermont, by the time I arrived in Jericho twenty minutes later, clouds and a light yet soaking rain had blown in. But I’m determined, or maybe just stubborn, and as the rain was light enough, I put on my hiking boots and headed out on the trails, searching out possible stone serpents in the Jericho woods.
Didn’t find much around this old farm until this old stone row appeared. I came across it from uphill, as it meandered approximately southeast downhill towards a substantial brook.
It’s not very long, and it’s some of the only stonework on this hill, or at least the only still visible (there are a LOT of downed trees here). The only other stones visible are path-lining stones laid out in a serpentine fashion a short distance from this stone row which we’ll look at in a moment, and others in a stone pile, which we’ll also see in a bit.
So this stone row stands curiously alone. And it possesses some interesting characteristics, undulations and iconography, which make it a candidate for a possible effigy work, a potentially ancient Indigenous Serpent Row.
