Summer Solstice Celebration at Serpent Mound

FOSM( Friends of Serpent Mound) is excited to have Jarrod Burks, PhD the Director of Geophysical Surveys at Ohio Valley Archaeology as our keynote speaker with his findings from “The Serpent Mound Project”.

Plus lectures from…
Douglas Ross Hamilton, E.P. (Ed) Grondine, Fletcher Wilson, Tammy Peach, Tom Johnson, Marilene Isaacs, Jeff Wilson, Darryl Smith, John Cramton, Allen Skully, William John Meegan, Delsey Wilson, and more!

And Music and Storytelling from…
Steve Free, Deborah Brubaker (YellowFlicker) & Terri Rivera

Please, join us!
http://www.serpentmound.org/festival.html

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2013 Speakers Schedule

Friday
Noon Opening Ceremony
1:00 PM Delsey Wilson
2:00 PM Tammy Peach
3:00 PM Tom Johnson
4:00 PM Steve Free
5:00 PM Darryl Smith
6:00 PM Fletcher Wilson
7:00 PM Sunset Tour - Jeffrey Wilson
7:00 PM Pot luck
8:00 PM Native American Drumming Demonstration (Tentative)

Saturday
11:00 AM Debbie "YellowFlicker" Brubaker
12:00 PM Robert Converse
1:00 PM Jeffrey Wilson (Tentative)
2:00 PM Jarrod Burks, PhD
3:00 PM Douglas Ross Hamilton
4:00 PM Terri "Sings with Ravens" Rivera
5:00 PM E. P. (Ed) Grondine
6:00 PM Marilene Isaacs
7:00 PM Sunset Tour - Jeffrey Wilson
7:00 PM Pot luck
8:00 PM Drumming and Hula Hoop Dancers until 2am

Sunday
11:00 John Cramton
12:00 PM Alan Skelly
1:00 PM Terri "Sings with Ravens" River
2:00 PM William John Meegan
3:00 PM Jeffrey Wilson
4:00 PM Closing Ceremony
5:00 PM Close

Presentations (in chronological order):
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Friday, June 20, 2014, 1:00 PM
Who are the Friends of Serpent Mound & "What is the Summer Solstice Celebration about?" Open Forum
Presented by Delsey Wilson, Volunteer and a founding Board Member of the Friends of Serpent Mound, and Geneology and History Researcher
Delsey will give a brief history of FOSM before delving into the confusing web of work done at Serpent Mound in the early 1900's. She will also be giving a tour on "The Secret Spots of Serpent Mound" on Saturday, time to be announced.

Friday, June 20, 2014, 2:00 PM
Serpent Mound - Family, Love, & Energy
Presented by Tammy Peach, a descendent of the first caretakers of the Great Serpent Mound Park
Tammy Peach will share her love for her Grandparents and their shared love of Serpent Mound.

Friday, June 20, 2014, 3:00 PM
Crater Surrounding Serpent Mound
Presented by Tom Johnson, self-taught geologist/paleontologist and owner of House of Phacops
Tom Johnson will discuss the Crater that Serpent Mound sits within.

Friday, June 20, 2014, 4:00 PM
Music and Storytelling
Presented by Steve Free an internationally known singer/songwriter/recording artist who draws upon his Native American & Appalachian roots through songs and stories to educate and entertain audiences of all ages
Steve Free is an internationally acclaimed award winning singer/songwriter/recording artist. The winner of numerous Music Industry Awards including 9 ASCAP AWARDS,a Platinum Record and a GRAMMY nomination he has charted over 30 songs on the National & International, Americana, Country & Billboard Charts, including 15 #1 songs, while remaining one of Music's Top Folk Artist both in the U.S and in Europe. In 1996 he was named International Independent Recording Artist of the Year, in 2008 he won the Governors Award as the #1 Artist in his home state of Ohio and in 2009 was honored by The Kentucky State Senate for his musical contributions to Appalachia. He is an Ohio Arts Council and Midwest Arts Council " Ohio Artist On Tour ". In 2000 he received a lifetime achievement award from Airplay International in Nashville for his decades of international airplay.
His latest singles DO YOU WANNA DANCE was the Nu 1 song on The International Country Charts in Dec 2013 and CHILD OF THESE HILLS a Nu 1 song on The European Christian Country Charts in Jan 2104. (Photo compliments of Steve Free)

Friday, June 20, 2014, 5:00 PM
Buckeye Trails Association (BTA)
Presented by Darryl Smith, board of trustees member for the Buckeye Trails Association (BTA).
Darryl hikes 400-750 miles each year, and was the organizer of the Miami Rivers Chapter of the Buckeye Trail Association. He leads two hikes at Fort Hill (in the spring and fall) that all are welcome to participate.

The Buckeye Trail Association is a large, strong body of volunteers who maintain and promote the trail. Though the entire route is marked, the Buckeye Trail continues to change and improve. The BTA looks for ways to move road sections off the roads, and to upgrade those off-road sections to high quality trail. For nearly 1444 miles, the Buckeye Trail winds around Ohio, reaching into every corner of the state. From a beachhead on Lake Erie near Cleveland, to a hilltop overlooking the Ohio River in Cincinnati, a hiker can experience a little of all that Ohio has to offer. First envisioned in the late 1950's as a trail from the Ohio River to Lake Erie, the Buckeye Trail evolved into a large loop, branching both north and east from Cincinnati. The separate legs rejoin in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Cleveland, and complete the trip to the lake. Because it is a loop, it is also in essence, endless. You may start a hike at any point and hike as long as you want without ever reaching an end!

Friday, June 20, 2014, 6:00 PM
Electromagnetic Energy
Presented by Fletcher Wilson
How does electromagnetics work and why is it important to talk about at Serpent Mound?

Friday, June 20, 2014, 7:00 PM
Sunset Tour Around the Effigy Mound
Presented by Jeffrey Wilson

Friday, June 20, 2014, 7:00 PM
Pot luck at the private property designated for camping.

Friday, June 20, 2014, 8:00 PM
(Tentative) Native American Drumming display, on the private property next door.

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Saturday, June 21, 2014, 11:00 AM
Music
Presented by Debbie Brubaker (Yellow Flicker)
Yellow Flicker started playing her flutes a couple years ago. She has played at fundraisers and nursing home and group homes. Since then she has gotten "The Seven Sacred" Chakra Healing Flutes and plays healing music at SunWatch Flute Festival, WolfCreek Native American Gathering, Healing Fairs, and the VA Hospital. Starting this year she is also playing at Gift of Light and Victory of Lights.

Saturday, June 21, 2014, 12:00 PM
The Adena Culture
Presented by Robert Converse, Editor of the Ohio Archaeologist for over 40 years and has written eleven books on archaeology and several hundred articles.
Robert's program will be on the Adena Culture, detailing the history of printed information about the Adena – He will show excavations of Adena mounds beginning with the investigation of the original Adena mound. He will show and discuss the cultural characteristics, artifacts, and other facets of the culture. Adena is the first culture in the Midwest to construct artificial burial mounds and use pottery. He will also discuss the relationship the Adena had to the Ohio Hopewell.

Saturday, June 21, 2014, 1:00 PM
LiDAR: A Revealing Look at Ancient Ohio (Tentative)
Presented by Jeffrey Wilson, Volunteer and a founding Board Member of the Friends of Serpent Mound
With a Master of Science and a double major in English Literature and History from Eastern Michigan, Jeffrey’s lectures bring a scientific approach with a refreshing side of Native American mythology. On Saturday, he will discuss his discoveries with the new LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data and how it is changing the way we see ancient sites. Sunday he will share some of his contributions to “The Serpent Mound Project” with a lecture on the Women of Serpent Mound.

Saturday, June 21, 2014, 2:00 PM
Findings From the Serpent Mound Project
Presented by Dr. Jarrod Burks, PhD the Director of Geophysical Surveys at Ohio Valley Archaeology
FOSM was lucky to have had the privilege to help throughout Dr. William Romain's Serpent Mound Project. Dr. Jerrod Burks was one of Romain's colleagues called in to do some geophysical surveys at Serpent Mound, like an Electrical Resistance survey and a ground-penetrating radar survey. The later produced surprising results that lead to a 1 x 5 foot trench dug off to the right hand side of the path while walking from the tower to the overlook. We hope that Jarrod will share some of his finding and show the public how this form of research has changed Archaeology!

Saturday, June 21, 2014, 3:00 PM
Star Mounds
Presented by Douglas Ross Hamilton, author of several books including The Mystery of the Serpent Mound, A Tradition of Giants, Wonders and Mysteries of the Great Serpent Mound, and his newest Star Mounds: Atlas of an American Mystery (Random House Books 2012)
Ross Hamilton volunteers at Serpent Mound as both interpreter and tour guide. He and his companion Lesley LaBoda have been studying the mysteries of the Ohio Valley earthworks for years and offer new ways to approach the earthwork studies that emphasize geometry and stellar astronomy as means for determining both design methodology and age of the many Ohio sites. Ross will be discussing the highly controversial topic of the Nazca, Peru glyphs: what they mean, why they were carefully separated and spread out across the desert at the same approximate time the Hopewell culture was finishing off their earthworks here in the Ohio Valley. You Milton-Bradley puzzle fans will love this as Ross demonstrates that each geoglyph is actually a piece to a gigantic puzzle that, when reassembled, offers a message of great philosophical meaning on a world scale.

Saturday, June 21, 2014, 4:00 PM
Music and Storytelling
Presented by Terri Rivera (Sings with Ravens) known by many as a gifted psychic, Reiki Master/Teacher, and Curandera. Terri collaborates with other local healers to hold spiritual retreats in Ohio and has also presented at workshops throughout the U.S. and in Mexico. She often holds ceremony at the Serpent Mound, an area she is drawn to, and Fort Ancient in Southwestern Ohio.
Terri’s ceremonies are based off of Native traditions and each is unique unto itself. She likes to start retreats or ceremonies with a sweat lodge, or temescal to cleanse purify ground and set intentions. During this part of the ceremony she really listens to the creator and the people and the land on which way they should go from there. She incorporates spirit names, drums, personal chants, and lots and lots of music so that each may find their voice and become one voice in healing and growth. One can never expect to have the same experience twice.

On The Serpent Mound
“I grew up In Idaho and worked in places like Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons and moved to Ohio because of a job offer. For the first few years I hated it; it was hot humid and I was miserable. Then one day while in prayer, I was urged to make a medicine wheel in my back yard. So I did. I offered tobacco to the four directions with eyes closed, then opened them and the beauty came flooding in it was like Dorothy in the wizard of Oz. It was that day I was guided to go to the serpent mound and many others in the Ohio valley. I have learned much about the mound from the elders of other tribes all over the world and of course from the ancient ones who dwell at the mound.

At the serpent I work with many and some when they come here say we will activate the serpent and I just smile because it is not you that will activate the serpent it is the serpent that will activate you. I like doing ceremony there just for this purpose. And at the end of each Ceremony we blow smoke from the serpent pipe and say welcome to the brother and sisters of the serpent mound."

Saturday, June 21, 2014, 5:00 PM
Man and Impact and Serpent Mound
Presented by E. P. (Ed) Grondine, space reporter and author of Man and Impact in the Americas
Ed Grondine has been involved with comet and asteroid impact research since 1997. He will share with us his knowledge of the effects of comet impacts on the first peoples in the Americas. Along with his ideas on who built Serpent Mound and why.

Saturday, June 21, 2014, 6:00 PM
Healing Ceremony
Presented by Marilene Isaacs, founder of The Center of Peace in Indianapolis
Marilene Isaacs renowned spiritual teacher, intuitive therapist and healer of people, animals, and places will lead everyone in a Healing Ceremony. Marilene first came to Serpent Mound to film THE HARMONIC CONVERGENCE in 1987, for her then Comcast TV show The Psychic Connection...on the Winter Solstice of 1988 she bought the 16 acres adjacent to the mound which she called The phoenix Foundation Sanctuary, after years of doing retreats and teachings there, she sold the property in 2003.

Saturday, June 21, 2014, 7:00 PM
Sunset Tour Around the Effigy Mound
Presented by Jeffrey Wilson

Saturday, June 21, 2014, 7:00 PM
Pot luck at the private property designated for camping.

Saturday, June 21, 2014, 8:00 PM
International Drumming and Hula Hoop Dancing until 2am, on the private property nextdoor.

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Sunday, June 22, 2014, 11:00AM
Old Fashioned Hymn Sing and Inclusive Worship of the Creator
Presented by Rev. John Cramton, an ordained United Church of Christ pastor and hospice chaplain in Columbus, Ohio. John grew up on a small farm in Clinton County, Ohio and recalls coming to Serpent Mound for summer picnics and to watch the trees change in the fall. John regularly provides inter-faith worship experiences for hospice patients and their caregivers and has a high value for people of many faiths coming together for inclusive worship.

We will gather in the shelter house to sing old time hymns together and to reflect upon the gifts given us by the divine creator. We will raise our voices in praise of the One who has watched over the many people that have worshipped at this ancient site across the millennia. All are welcome to this inclusive worship hour and there will be an effort to provide something fun and inspirational for all gathered. Last year's participants really enjoyed themselves!

Sunday, June 22, 2014, 12:00 PM
The Water Serpent and the Ancient People of the Great Serpent Mound Valley…
As Told by Them - In River Rock Artifacts
Presented by Dr. Alan W. Skelly
Over the past three years Dr. Alan Skelly has amassed a large collection of ancient carved /stone- river found artifacts- in the Serpent Mound Valley. These artifacts are believed to have been made by the Adena, Hopewell and the Ft. Ancient people. Alan will be both sharing some of what he has found and discussing how the Water Serpent relates to Serpent Mound ; as well as introducing you to the people who lived in the Serpent Mound Valley “through their eyes”- as carved in stone. Dr. Skelly, has a Juris Doctorate degree from the Delaware Law School of Widener University, and is happily retired from the Practice of mainly Corporate Law, after 26 years. Alan currently is President of American River Power and Light, a private developer of community scale hydro electric power plants in Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky and Indiana. (Photo compliments of Alan Skelly)

Sunday, June 22, 2014, 1:00 PM
Music and Storytelling
Presented by Terri Rivera (Sings with Ravens) known by many as a gifted psychic, Reiki Master/Teacher, and Curandera. Terri collaborates with other local healers to hold spiritual retreats in Ohio and has also presented at workshops throughout the U.S. and in Mexico. She often holds ceremony at the Serpent Mound, an area she is drawn to, and Fort Ancient in Southwestern Ohio. She will doing a sing-a-long for the children.

Sunday, June 22, 2014, 2:00 PM
SERPENT MOUND: Closing the Mystic Circle
Presented by William John Meegan
Having researched the Esoteric Sciences for more then 40 years, Bill has made numerous scientific discoveries out of the Judaea Christian Scriptures and in Catholicism's literature and artwork. Because of these discoveries he was able to publish a trilogy of books - THE CONQUEST OF GENESIS: A study in Universal Creation Mathematics, THE SECRETS & THE MYSTERIES OF GENESIS: Antiquity's Hall of Records, THE SISTINE CHAPEL: A Study in Celestial Cartography, The Mysteries and Esoteric Teachings of the Catholic Church.

William will discuss the basic paradigm of Astrology in the relationship to what he believes is the original spiritual intent and educational goals at Serpent Mound's Mysteries School (entire Zodiacal Complex) in antiquity, especially in relationship to CLOSING THE MYSTIC CIRCLE relating to the Holy Spirit's (Orenda) appearance on Pentecostal Sunday (Acts 2). Here he will be able to discuss a comparative analysis with a number of examples from out of the Old and New Testaments and from an Egyptian sculptured frieze on the ceiling of the Temple of Khnum at Esneh.

Sunday, June 22, 2014, 3:00 PM
Women of Serpent Mound
Presented by Jeffrey Wilson, Volunteer and a founding Board Member of the Friends of Serpent Mound
With a Master of Science and a double major in English Literature and History from Eastern Michigan, Jeffrey’s lectures bring a scientific approach with a refreshing side of Native American mythology. Friday night he will share some of his contributions to “The Serpent Mound Project” with a lecture on the Women of Serpent Mound. On Saturday, he will discuss his discoveries with the new LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data and how it is changing the way we see ancient sites.

Sunday, June 22, 2014, 4:00 PM
Closing Ceremony

Sunday, June 22, 2014, 5:00 PM
Festival ends

Other Hikes and Workshop Schedule will be posted closer to event.

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VENDORS SPACE STILL AVAILABLE!

For 2014 our Summer Solstice Celebration will start June 20 and go through the 22nd!!!
Registering between Feb. 2 - June 1, 2014 the fee is $50!
Act fast as space is limited and sells items are juried.
There will be no vendors admitted during the event, so register now!!!

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We are looking for individuals or groups that specialize in...
•Native Hunting – knapping, bow making, Atlatl, and more…
•Native Farming – 3 Sisters, food preparation, herbal uses, tools, and more…
•Native Living – pottery, baskets, weaving, jewelry, crafts, ceremonies, housing, and more…
•Native History – ceremonies, mounds, story telling, petroglyphs, legends and lore, re enactors, and more…
•Serpent Mysteries – dowsing, ley lines, archaeoastronomy, archaeology, standing stones, crop circles, mound builders culture, spiritual living, and more…

If you fit one of these areas, or if you're not quite sure, please fill out a Vendor's Form (pdf or Word) and either snail mail or email it to us, and once the committee reviews it, we'll get back to you!

We had about 300 visitors at our 2011 one day event, that enjoyed 7 speakers and 11 vendors - many vendors returned in 2013. Our goal was to double the number of vendors for 2012 and we ended up having 32 register! The restrooms have been updated, so we were able to offer our food vendor electricity and our patrons flush toilets! Vendor space was limited to 45 in 2013 and every space was reserved!