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re: What’s up with permanent posts around the Indian mounds?
Posted on 8/20/21 at 9:52 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 8/20/21 at 9:52 pm to Jim Rockford
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Not a rumor. It happened.
I do remember this happening when I was at LSU in 84 or 85. Courtenay Elizabeth Smoak was her name. You can still find tidbits about it from old articles online. They put up the low brick wall around the mounds some time after that to keep cars from driving on them. Not sure why they have the posts up now.
Also mentioned on TD a while back:
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This post was edited on 8/20/21 at 9:56 pm
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Posted on 8/20/21 at 9:58 pm to The Hurricane
quote:My guess is it will be a no tailgate spot very soon, if not this season.
I’m more concerned with how long before LSU makes it a pay for tailgate spot. My family has been tailgating “between the cleavage” for 30+ years.
Posted on 8/20/21 at 10:01 pm to jlovel7
I have seen them do it before…especially for games… they ask people to stay off in general but it had turned into a place for people to bring kids and slide on boxes during covid…
Kids day out….. idk
Kids day out….. idk
Posted on 8/20/21 at 10:29 pm to Gravitiger
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My guess is it will be a no tailgate spot very soon, if not this season.
God I hope not. I know it’s normally fenced up, but that would just suck.
Posted on 8/20/21 at 10:35 pm to The Hurricane
quote:I get that, but if it's really what it is claimed to be (i.e., the oldest extant manmade structure in North America), its value to the university (and mankind) as a neolithic archaeological site probably exceeds its value as a place people have had an epic tailgate for a few decades.
God I hope not. I know it’s normally fenced up, but that would just suck.
This post was edited on 8/20/21 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 8/20/21 at 10:41 pm to FlyingTiger06
quote:Can you text your BIL and ask him to clarify or weigh in?
Just relaying what I was told as it relates to why they want to keep people off of them.
Posted on 8/21/21 at 9:55 am to Gravitiger
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Can you text your BIL and ask him to clarify or weigh in?
What is it you want clarified?
Posted on 8/21/21 at 9:56 am to FlyingTiger06
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Yes. My BIL is the lead engineer for campus development. He told me they have research that they are in the process of getting peer reviewed that will establish those two Indian mounds as the oldest man-made structure on Earth. They have already proven they are older than the Pyramids of Giza. So now, they are trying to protect them and get them established on the Historic Registry.
Nah, that’s just the dirt from when Huey Long had the pool dug.
Posted on 8/21/21 at 10:00 am to FlyingTiger06
quote:I figured it out already.
What is it you want clarified?
Posted on 8/21/21 at 10:01 am to FlyingTiger06
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Look, I used to have fun sliding and rolling down those things too, but if there's true historic value in them they need to be preserved. I wish preserving them could be as simple as posting signs saying to stay off, but we all know morons won't abide by that.
Dude…they are piled up dirt with grass on them. Some kids sliding and rolling down them hasn’t destroyed them yet and won’t in the future.
We had a bigger hill in the field at my house growing up that my dad built.
Hills are fun for kids. Stop acting like these are the pyramids, or some amphitheater…
They aren’t even midden heaps with valuable trinkets to discover.
They are dirt piles
You want to turn them from something so many people have fond memories of, into another isolated thing that has no connection to people
This post was edited on 8/21/21 at 10:03 am
Posted on 8/21/21 at 10:01 am to Gravitiger
Posted on 8/21/21 at 10:36 am to jlovel7
People have been walking on them and kids playing on them for 100 years. Putting up a fence now is retarded and will look stupid. Why not just dump a layer of concrete on them for protection?
Posted on 8/21/21 at 10:36 am to jlovel7
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What’s up with permanent posts around the Indian mounds?
The famous artist Christo is preparing to install a giant pink brassiere hanging over the top of the mounds in connection with Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Posted on 8/21/21 at 10:39 am to The Hurricane
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God I hope not. I know it’s normally fenced up, but that would just suck.
The posts go around the mounds and cut off the pathway in between. Normally each mound has its own little circle. Now it’s a massive circle all the way around them.
Posted on 8/21/21 at 10:52 am to jlovel7
So instead of having the oldest site on earth serve as a place people can interact with and make memories (kids slide down and have fun, coeds sit on lunch break, visitors walk up for fun, etc), they are going to make it a place you stand behind a fence and look at a grass mound. Makes sense.
As another poster said, the mounds are embedded in the campus and have been part of campus life. Now they will be something that’s simply there.
As another poster said, the mounds are embedded in the campus and have been part of campus life. Now they will be something that’s simply there.
Posted on 8/21/21 at 11:02 am to jlovel7
The Indian mounds will be permanently fenced in. I know the guys that are doing the job. One of them was telling me about it last week.
ETA: It will be chain link fence and not some nice ornamental work.
ETA: It will be chain link fence and not some nice ornamental work.
This post was edited on 8/21/21 at 11:04 am
Posted on 8/21/21 at 11:07 am to FlagLake
What color is the dirt underneath? That will be the ultimate decision maker at LSU.
Posted on 8/21/21 at 11:07 am to FlagLake
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It will be chain link fence and not some nice ornamental work.
Well, at least they’re showing how valuable the mounds are to them.
Posted on 8/21/21 at 1:36 pm to FlagLake
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ETA: It will be chain link fence and not some nice ornamental work.
It looks very rough so far. Cheap posts and regular chain link I saw laying by the mounds. And the concrete beds the posts got set in are very rough and need to be smoothed down.
Posted on 8/21/21 at 1:40 pm to FlyingTiger06
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Yes. My BIL is the lead engineer for campus development. He told me they have research that they are in the process of getting peer reviewed that will establish those two Indian mounds as the oldest man-made structure on Earth.
Humanity started in Africa then the Middle East but some clumps of dirt in Baton Rouge are the oldest man made structure? Retards
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