Blanding, Utah
Today I had the occasion to travel south for lunch with a friend in Blanding, Utah. Afterwards I stopped by the Edge of the Cedars State Park which houses the largest collection of pottery from the Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) peoples that inhabited the Four Corners Region from AD 825 to 1125. This collection is outstanding; I get so excited to see the wonderful pottery that they made and the great artistic talent that went into even the simplest of common household objects. This is more than a museum, it is also the actual site of a village that is still in remarkable shape considering the age. The park has made the ruins accessible so that visitors can go down into the 1000-year-old kiva, a round somewhat underground living structure on the west side of the village. You really get a sense of life there in the village.
Bottom of the ladder into the kiva.....well worth the drive to experience this State Park!!!
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