Author: sacredsite1
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Newgrange, Brú na Bóinne, Ireland
Brú na Bóinne, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located on a bend in the Boyne River on Ireland’s eastern coast. It is a vast Neolithic complex comprised of three main burial mounds, Knownth, Newgrange and Dowth. The complex consists of forty additional passage graves and other related places, totaling ninety archaeological sites that form…
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“One’s Own Blood and Bones”
Located on the North Island of Aoteoroa/New Zealand, Tongariro National Park is the country’s oldest national park, established in 1894. In 1990, it was declared a World Heritage site, and three years later it was also given Cultural World Heritage status. Tongariro is a popular tourist destination, drawing nearly one million visitors each year to…
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John E. Palmer, The Netherlands
By Nancy & Leonard Becker John E. Palmer of Den Haag, the Netherlands, was one of the first Site Savers we met when Sacred Sites International was founded in 1990. We learned about Mr. Palmer when we saw his etchings and photographs of ancient sacred sites exhibited in a gallery in Northern California. John Palmer…
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Susu Jeffrey Coldwater Springs, Minnesota
My mom believed children should be outdoors except to eat, sleep and go to the bathroom. We had mashed potatoes and politics every night for dinner. My dad was a one-term congressman and a main author of the “G.I. Bill of Rights” in 1944. My mom was intolerant of lying; she worshiped the sun and…
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Charles Miller, Michelle Berditschevsky, David Schooley & Patrick Orozco, Northern California
Mount San Bruno Photo By: Bastique By Nancy & Leonard Becker Attorney Charles Miller was the unifying advisor who guided two groups towards the protection of two mountains located in California: Mount Shasta and San Bruno Mountain. We met Charles shortly after founding Sacred Sites International in 1990 when he was working for an environmental…
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Lama Tovuu Baldan Baraivan, Mongolia
By Mark Hintzke, Founding Director Cultural Restoration Tourism Project In 1998 I was invited to Baldan Baraivan, Mongolia, at the request of 97-year-old Lama Tovuu. He had studied at Baldan Baraivan as a young boy and witnessed the destruction of the monastery and the atrocities of the communist regime when monks and lamas were put…