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In last week\u2019s blog I wrote about The Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall, also known as Tom\u2019s Wall that is a few miles out of Florence, Alabama (USA).\u00a0 The wall was built by Tom Hendrix as a memorial to his great-great grandmother who was one of thousands of Indians that the US Government relocated and her journey from the reservation in Oklahoma back to the Singing River (the Tennessee River at Florence).<\/strong><\/p>\n In this post I will highlight one section of the wall that I found hauntingly intriguing when photographing it.\u00a0 I later learned the story behind this section that I am calling the Wall Of Faces.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Wall Of Faces is a ten foot section of the Wichahpi Stone Wall.\u00a0 It is filled with limestone river rocks.\u00a0 Years of erosion have left holes in those rocks and the results are many stones that look like faces.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Members of the Lakota Indians visited Mr. Hendrix and modified this section of wall.\u00a0 The told him that all bad things come out of the west, so they positioned the rock faces facing west, saying they would protect Te-lah-ney\u2019s Wall.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Hendrix placed a stone bench opposite the stone faces so that one can sit, see and study the\u00a0 faces.\u00a0 Some people have found them a little eerie while others have seen them as a humorous addition to the wall.<\/strong><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t sit and study these faces but I did take photographs of several individual stones.\u00a0 At the time of my visit, I didn\u2019t know the reason they had been put in the wall.\u00a0 I only knew that I found them to be very fascinating.<\/strong><\/p>\n I plan to make a return visit to Tom\u2019s Wall.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019ll sit across from those faces next time and think about their purpose.<\/strong><\/p>\n