DISTANT VOICES

The earth is filled with memories of things no longer here. Entire cultures fade away when their time is over. But those who vanish leave traces, and the new natives wonder about the old.

One home to such misty memories, tucked away in North Georgia’s gentle hills, is the picturesque Nacoochee Valley. Etched by the gurgling Chattahoochee, there is a quiet dignity to this vale. And in the midst of that quiet dignity, sits a solitary Indian mound – a silent sentinel to a past we can only imagine.

This old mound charms us. There is, of course, the wellknown legend of Nacoochee, the beautiful daughter of a Cherokee chief, who loved a Chickasaw warrior named Sautee. Many say they lie together, deep inside the mound, while others scoff and call it a yarn.

But it’s not just the legend that charms us. Somehow, the mound causes even the busiest passer-by to glance that way – even if they’ve passed a thousand times before. Countless have stopped for a photograph. And this mound, with its signature gazebo, is portrayed in more paintings and sketches than we can tally.

As artists are drawn here, so too are archaeologists, and in 1915, they came to uncover the mound’s mysteries.

This book is an attempt to capture some of what we suppose about this place and to tell the stories of artists and poets who have painted and praised it. Because, in the end it’s the memories it holds that make this mound wonderful.

And sometimes those memories flutter by so close we can almost feel their wings.

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