Colonial Conflicts
“[OSU Professor] Dick Shiels, with 175 people sightseeing, celebrating Native American festivals and three or four people beating drums, chanting and calling, were trespassing on private property. It was not a sanctioned event. (Shiels) allowed six students to run onto the dance floor and run off before police could be called.”
- Ralph Burpee, general manager, Moundbuilders Country Club.
Kent Mallett, “Mound moonrise rain date still undecided,”
“Additionally, [Ralph Burpee] granted the request for the Ohio Archaeological Council to have a private tour of the Octagon on Nov. 18 as long as sufficient security is on duty Nov. 18 and 19 ‘to protect the club's assets and property.’”
“Club offers alternative date for public access to Earthworks,”
“The most prominent people in town belong to this club, and they are using their power to keep the public off this important site.”
- OSU History Prof. Richard Shiels.
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