Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Chillicothe, Ohio We drove about an hour southeast of us down to a town whose name I’ve read, but never pronounced. Now that I know how to pronounce it, I like the sound of it. It sort of rolls off the tongue, like ‘Prairie du Chien’, except its a very different language. As you approach Chillicothe from the Dayton area, the landscape changes. And, in fact, you enter a different ecological zone. Instead of the Eastern Corn Belt Plains, with its low rolling plains and preponderance of beech forests, we move into the Western Allegheny Plateau, which has more diverse hardwood forests. There is less agricultural land use as the land is slightly more rugged heading up into the Appalachian Mountains themselves. Yesterday will be our only contact with this region,
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