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Observant visitors to America's northeastern forests have long encountered various stone structures. These include rock piles, stone chambers, unusual stone walls and circles, propped boulders, standing stones, petroglyphs, and stone or earthen mounds. NEARA was founded in 1964 to promote research into the origins and functions of these structures and sites, to document them and encourage their protection and preservation. Volunteers participate in the search for new sites and enjoy the challenge of better understanding them through the lenses of history, archaeology, anthropology and geology, as well as fields such as archaeoastronomy, deed research, and epigraphy.

Our semiannual meetings provide an opportunity for sharing research on a wide array of subjects, from the early peopling of the Americas, diffusion of cultural features across oceans in antiquity, Native American traditions, to the colonial period. Mythology, astronomy, comparative religion, agricultural practices, landscape studies and remote sensing are all areas we have explored. Our meetings and publications offer a forum for studying these diverse subjects, in an effort to better understand our region and its global context.

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Last weekend Robyn Field led a Stone Chambers hike in Putnam County New York.

Current NEARA Transit

This issue of NEARA's newsletter includes these articles:

• The Sky was Not the Limit -- Betsy Brewster
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• Spring 2024 Election Results -- Walter van Roggen
• Welcome, and the NEARA Calendar -- Teresa Bierce
• Enigmatic Places Right Here in NYC -- Kevin Mullany
• A Solar Alignment Site in Connecticut -- Chris Loughlin
• Pennsylvania -- Jim Wilson
• In Memoriam, Fred Werkheiser -- Jim Wilson
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• Vermont -- Suzen Blackstone
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This is another in a sequence of initiatives to provide more services and information to NEARA members, following introduction of The NEARA Calendar .

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Chuck Drayton has graciously allowed NEARA to host and update his stone sites website. You can see it now at: Foxboro State Forest stone sites .

This rehosting is part of our continuing effort to preserve interesting websites and collections of documents. If you have a specialized website pertaining to stone structures that you would like to modernize and preserve for the future, contact us at [email protected] .

Stephen Carney has a number of videos on YouTube about these same sites: Stones and Stories .

Field Trips in Vermont and in Massachusetts

Bolton vermont, with mike luoma.

Foxboro Massachusetts, with Chuck Drayton

NEARA Organization Changes

We are in the process of making some changes to how NEARA is structured.

The NEARA Member Communications Committee includes not only the old Membership Committee, but also many other roles/groups that have substantial interactions with members. Unlike the Publications Committee, Member Communications subcommittees and roles will primarly communicate via the internet.

The First Vice President's many roles are now more explicitly spelled out, in the hopes of encouraging more people to help stage our conferences.

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NEARA Spring 2024 Election Results

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Newly elected Directors-at-Large are Tom Elmore, Mike Luoma, Fred Martin, and Matt McLaughlin.

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The new officers deeply appreciate the efforts that Anne Marie Kittredge and Betsy Brewster have made on behalf of NEARA. Fortunately for all of us they remain connected with the board and will provide advice and help as needed.

NEARA Spring 2024: the Eclipse Conference

The spring conference took place in East Burke Vermont from April 6th to April 8th. Most of the presentations were oriented around astronomy, archaeology, and traditions and alignments involving the sun and the moon. By coincidence there was a total eclipse of the sun that Monday during beautiful clear weather.

Details are on the 2024 Eclipse Conference page . If you were at the conference, please send us photos or videos that you want to share.

Mysterious Stone Chambers of Putnam County New York

Part 1 with Robyn Field

Part 2 with Rob Buchanan

SiteDB Updated

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Current NEARA Journal

This issue of NEARA's journal includes these articles:

• The Influence of Indigenous Spirituality and Healing on Rock Art in the Northeast Woodlands -- Edward J. Lenik
• Samples of 3D Modeling, Part II -- Markham Starr
• Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America -- Lucianne Lavin and Elaine Thomas
• Stone Mounds Atop 'Ployden Mountain', Hunterdon County, New Jersey -- Greg Herman and Benjamin Brandner

NEARA members can receive the latest NEARA Journal s electronically or in printed form. They can also read all older issues on SiteDB.org .

The Stones We Carry: Kitty O'Riordan Dissertation Presentation

This is a recording of Kitty O'Riordan's PhD Dissertation Presentation at the University of Connecticut on November 10th 2023. The title is The Stones We Carry: Avocational Science, Epistemics, and Identity in New England's Cultural Stone Features Debate .

An invitation/summary of the presentation is at Flyer .

Fall 2023 Conference

The fall conference took place from November 10th to November 12th, at the Courtyard by Marriott in Marlborough Massachusetts. The theme was "NEARA's Research: Past, Present, and Future". Topics involved archaeology, OSL dating, archaeoastronomy, and historical research. The keynote speakers were Kimberly Toney, Member of the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc and Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines, Jr., Citizen of the Nipmuc People. More information will be posted at the 2023 Fall Conference page .

Triad of Digital Technologies Investigates the Newport Tower

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New Leadership

The NEARA Board met on June 11th for its spring meeting and appointment of Board positions. The Board thanked Harvey Buford for his significant contributions to NEARA over many years and appointed former Director at Large Anne Marie Kittredge to serve as NEARA President until a vote of the membership in Spring 2024.

NEARA members may know Anne Marie as the editor of the NEARA Journal and from the site tours she led in Western Massachusetts for the Fall 2022 Conference in Brattleboro VT. Before retiring, Anne Marie was a wildlife forester with the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.

A big NEARA thank you goes out to Dyane Plunkett who served as Treasurer, Teresa Bierce who served as Secretary (but who continues as Membership Committee chair and Transit editor), Sarah Kohler who chaired the Preservation Committee, Lee Shoemaker who was chapter coordinator for Pennsylvania, and Fred Martin who served as a Director at Large. Thank you all for your dedicated service!

Rob Buchanan is our new Treasurer, and Walter van Roggen is our new Secretary. Newly appointed Directors at Large are Mike Luoma and John Waltz, who will fill out the terms of Anne Marie Kittredge and Rob Buchanan.

The current membership of the board is at Board of Directors .

NEARA at Lehigh Valley events

By Jim Wilson

NEARA helped sponsor four community events in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley in mid-March: at the Lehigh Valley Watershed Conference in Bethlehem PA, and the Nature Nurture Center in Easton PA. In addition to NEARA's $1500 sponsorship, NEARA volunteers from PA, NJ, CT and RI helped plan and deliver these public programs and engaged with the many folks who stopped by NEARA's sponsorship table at each of the two venues where the four events were held on March 11-14. In total, about 300 people attended these four events and had access to NEARA's sponsorship table at all of them. Dozens of email addresses were collected and lots of NEARA literature were freely taken, including our spring conference registration materials.

NEARA's sponsorship helped pay expenses for speakers to attend the events and address constructed cultural landscapes, the use of archaeology for land conservation with Indigenous tribes, and present a film screening and roundtable discussion about the award winning documentary, "The Water Gap: Return to the Homeland" . The film screening and roundtable was led by the Choctaw filmmaker and three young Delaware women, who were teenagers when the film was made in 2016.

The land conservation talk and the cultural landscapes program were presented by Dr. Julia King, Anthropology Chair, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Jim Wilson presented two illustrated programs on constructed stone landscapes during these events, which were sponsored as in-kind contributions by Jim's employer, Northampton County Parks and Recreation.

Documenting Constructed Stone Landscapes in Eastern Pennsylvania

Jim Wilson contributed an article to the Pennsylvania SHPO's annual report on archaeological site reporting activities. The article starts on page 14. Other interesting articles are in the document, too.

Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey 2022

Larry Harrop's Ceremonial Stone Landscapes

We are in the midst of hosting the contents of Larry Harrop's old web site showing examples of different kinds of stone structures. You can see what we have so far at: Larry Harrop's web site .

Norman Muller Articles

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Any info on.....New England Audio Research?

• Thread starter gearhound
• Start date Mar 17, 2009

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• Mar 17, 2009

I saw an interesting pair of speakers with metal woofers? N.E.A.R. was bought out by Bogan, years ago. I'm trying to find information.....on the pre-Bogan N.E.A.R. models. Anyone? Thanks! Steve :scratch2:  

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NEAR bought out Bozak back in the eighties. I've seen a few 3 way models with the old Bozak 12" woofers Never hear them but they were a quality build and great reviews over the years Are you looking at a pair?  

Active Member

• Mar 19, 2009

NEAR made some very good speakers. I have a pair of NEAR 10m, which received universally excellent reviews in the mid 90's. Great mini monitors with a benign crossover, the aforementioned metal woofer and a unique inverted dome tweeter. They are inefficient however. I now use them in my computer system connected to a NAD 7060 receiver. TOL was the 50m, which I believe was very well reviewed by TAS, but panned by Stereophile. All I know is that they sounded very good to my ears. The divergence of the reviews probably confused potential buyers. Later the company updated all of their speakers by adding an advanced resonance damping material to the insides of all of their cabinets. Sonic effect was quite noticable. Unique at the time was an unconditional 10yr warranty, which Bogen continued to honor after the buyout. NEAR speakers show up from time to time on Ebay. Best, Ross  

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I believe they are unusually good speakers, though that is based on reviews I've read, and their relationship to Bozak, not actually hearing any. They didn't have massive distribution, so few people know of them, and in retrospect the name may not have helped, since the full name is dorky (New England Audio Resource -- sounds like a public agency) and the acronym is a word that comes up on Google with an infinite number of listings, none of which is what you want. They bought the Bozak tooling and the rights to the designs. Another company bought the name. Both companies made good speakers, in the spirit of Bozak, but neither made it long term, perhaps because in the modern world, neither expensive drivers or large systems sell very well. Alas. Bogen bought NEAR in order to get the weatherproof drivers for outdoor speakers (which Bozak had sort of invented with the Bard), but almost immediately shut the whole thing down. Again alas.  

Baby, you're my winterblue

Here's everything I have on N.E.A.R., courtesy my copy of Audio magazine's 1992 Equipment Handbook: N.E.A.R. New England Audio Resource 679 Lisbon Rd. Lisbon Falls, ME 04252 (207) 353-7307 In 1992, they had 10 models from $318/pr to $1850/pr NEAR-10M NEAR-30M NEAR-40Me NEAR-50ML NEAR-50M AES-1.1 AES-1.2 AES-1.5 AES-1.6 AES-2.0 Specs on any of these models on request. Tom  

• Mar 20, 2009

Thanks for the info people.....it is appreciated! Steve  

• May 28, 2009

OvenMaster said: Here's everything I have on N.E.A.R., courtesy my copy of Audio magazine's 1992 Equipment Handbook: N.E.A.R. New England Audio Resource 679 Lisbon Rd. Lisbon Falls, ME 04252 (207) 353-7307 In 1992, they had 10 models from $318/pr to $1850/pr NEAR-10M NEAR-30M NEAR-40Me NEAR-50ML NEAR-50M AES-1.1 AES-1.2 AES-1.5 AES-1.6 AES-2.0 Specs on any of these models on request. Tom Click to expand...

NEAR-50M Design type: vented Woofer diameter: 8" Midrange diameter: 4" Midrange type: cone Tweeter diameter: 1" Tweeter type: dome Frequency response: 32Hz-23kHz, ±2dB SPL, 1w/1m: 91dB Minimum recommended wpc: 30 Crossover frequencies: 250Hz, 4kHz Impedance (nominal/minimum): 8/6 Dimensions H x W x D: 48 x 11 x 13 Finish: Black Grille: Black Weight: 55lb MSRP: $1399/pair  

• May 29, 2009

http://www.bogen.com/products/NEARspeakers/#aseries  

crunkarelli

• May 30, 2009

I never owned a pair, but I auditioned the NEAR Sound Masts and several years later the 50me. I also briefly listened to the 40me. The 50mes are amazing. Very open and transparent sounding. Fantastic for vocals, classical, jazz. Sound stage is a bit distant for pop and rock; they are not at all in your face. Although they are amazing on certain music, I pased on them for some Paradigm Studio 60s that are a bit more aggressive. I read several reviews of them where the reviewer thought they were some of the best speakers he had ever heard at any price. The Sound Mast was a very nice speaker as well. A bit light on bass and sometimes a bit harsh sounding on certain music, but very open, articulate and precise sounding.  

• Jul 5, 2013

NEAR 50ML Article - Stereo Review 1992 In case anyone is still interested in this ancient thread.  

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baco99 said: In case anyone is still interested in this ancient thread. Click to expand...

• Jun 21, 2017

I have had my NEAR ME 50 for ages and I recently moved again. I hooked them up and NO WOOFING going on. I searched for similar replacement 10" Woofers bass speakers all over the web for weeks & weeks... FINNALY I found the Original Manufacturer of the original driver in Germany! They have changed the surround from what it was to Kevlar. I bought a pair off eBay @ this link>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Stück-SPH...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 I have not had a chance to install them BUT I will add to this review after I get them installed and broke in.  

• Sep 9, 2017

I have a pair of NIB NEAR 80's, they are walnut and about the size of Klipsch Chorus  

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