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2/19/99 -- Friday Photos and Report from Mark Diamond

• Sad Circle Status from Mark Diamond (Read First)
• Famous Double Fence, Nobody Home But Tom The Artist AKA Nature Tom
• Miraculously One Lone Candle Burns at the Altar
• Nature Tom Explains His Philosophy
• Some Signs Remain
• Start Giving, Stop Taking
• Tom, Nature Man Contemplates The Implications Of My Taking His Picture
• Tourists Encounter Nature Tom at the Fence
• Young Woman Prepares to Jump the South Fence
• Young Woman's Stolen Circle Piece Prize

2/18/99 -- Thursday Photos from Mark Diamond

• Bob Carr Presents Reality Check
• Bobby Addresses Metro-Dade Commission
• City Mayor Joe Carollo
• Commisioner Ruvin and Hoagland
• Commissioner Dennis Moss
• Drum Beat Goes On Outside Site
• Front and Center Mayor Penelas and Becky Matkov
• Geeta Prays to the Four Corners
• Grateful Congratulations and Commotion after Decision
• Life Rolls on Outside County Chambers
• Metro Building
• Michael Baumann Listenes as Union Attorney Makes Plea to Proceed
• Officers Watch Goings On From Downstairs
• One of Latest Signs Outside Now Infamous Second Fence
• Stanley Price Attorney for Micheal Baumann
• Union Workers in Attendance
• Walter Scott Murphy Receives Blessing from Geeta
• Attorney for Union
• Paul Walker Grabs Bob Carr for Congratulatory Hug After Decision
• More Panoramic Views of Miami Circle

2/17/99 -- Wednesday Photos from Mark Diamond

• Altar Burns Bright
• Archeologist Danny Considers The Future After Press Conference
• Bob Carr at Press Conference
• Kate Sorrenson Mayor Penelas, Merrit Steirhiem
• Land of the New Setting Moon
• Press Preps During Another Ho Hum Day in Paradise
• Press Preps for Mayor
• Ruth Shack, Sorenson, Mayor, and Steirheim
• Shovel Bums Discuss Mayors Statement
• Signs Overtake Now Famous Double Fence
• The Startling Moment of Truth (WideView)

2/16/99 -- Tuesday Photos from Mark Diamond

• Attorney for Developer
• Builders Supporters
• City Leaders Buy Us Time
• City Seal and Clock at 11th Hour
• Commissioner Regalato addresses Baumann Lawyer
• Commissioner Teele
• County Mayor Penelas Addresses City Council
• Desecrating Morticians Local 99
• Developers Lawyer Pow Wows
• Flower Guy
• Front Row Seated Officials
• Mayor Joe Carollo
• Mayor Penelas Addresses Press
• Mayor Penelas
• Merrit Steirheim, County Manager
• Miami City Attorney & City Manager Warshaw
• Miami City Manager Warshaw
• No Excuses!
• Peace Guy and Dan
• Proud to be Union Men
• Site Supporter Offers Flowers to Opponents
• Vice Chairperson Willie Gort
• Wide View of City Chambers

2/15/99 -- Monday Photos from Mark Diamond

• Bob Carr stops to talk to interested onlooker.
• Bobby C Billy addresses press.
• Child protester.
• Miami Circle Cam headquarters.
• County Manager and Lead Archeologist
• Diapered guy with handle with care sign.
• Geeta rejoices the backhoe is gone.
• Hector "brainiac" Lopez after all-nite circle cam setup.
• Inner circle workers continue.
• Josh Billig
• Sign for Josh
• Native Drumming Circle
• Nick Ducassi on bridge.
• Protests on bridge.
• Becky Roper Matkov at Press Conference.
• Protester Courage!

2/15/99 -- Monday Photos from Jamie-Andrea Yanak

• A shot of the circle, where a buzzard is circling it.
• Richard Hoagland, right, and Mark Diamond, left, talking with a reporter from the AP, center.
• Miami City Commission Member Kate Sorenson talking with the media at a noon press conference.
• The infamous backhoe, leaving the scene of the crime today. The woman in the photo is a Shaman who is burning incense and saying a prayer.
• A man wearing only a diaper talks to a local tv crew at the circle site. It's unknown what motivated his apparrel.
• Plenty of sightseers jammed the walkway of the Brickell Avenue bridge to veiw the circle, and the media show surounding it.
• Good shot showing the circle.
• Protesters slowing traffic on the Brickell Road Bridge.

2/14/99 -- Latest Photos from the Circle

• The BackHoe is in Position!

Eve Smith writes: "The situation down here does not look good. Have received word from various extremely reliable sources that we're in for a dramatic experience if that backhoe / frontloader gets cranked up. People are forcasting violent scenerios. I am urging everyone to fax, email and call Governor Jeb Bush. We really feel he's our best bet at this point."

2/12/99 -- Mark Diamond photos of meeting

• Richard Hoagland at Meeting
• Harvey Ruvin (background left)
• Bobby C Billy
• County Manager Merrit Steirheim
• Mayor Alex Penelas
• Metro Dade Commission Chambers
• Robert Carr Lead Archeologist

2/10/99 -- Mark Diamond photos of meetings

• Enid Pinkney, Head of Dade Heritage Trust
• Bob Carr, Lead Archeologist at the Miami Circle
• Carr and de Pluma, Professor who organized the lecture by carr today at the U of Miami.
• Some of the assembled crowd.
• Packed Auditorium at UofM
• Carr Addresses Audience Questions

Mark Diamond writes: The hall was not big enough to hold the assembled crowd of hundreds that showed up to hear Bob Carr detail his findings at the Miami Circle site. People spilled out the doors trying to catch a glimpse and hear his lecture. At the end of the lecture too many people had questions and comments for the time allotted for. Reactions were varied. One gentleman who suggested that not unlike Tienamen Square demonstrations, that a non-violent protest be staged, even if people had to chain themselves to bull dozers. Another introduced himself as an attorney for international law, and hinted that a pact existed to save sacred sites of indiginous peoples,signed by the United States and other nations, might be called upon to help intervene in the demolition or removeal of the Miami Circle.

2/9/99 -- Candle Light Vigil Photos from Mark Diamond

• Bobby C Billy
• Christina And Sam At Altar
• Enid Pinkney of Dade Heritage Trust
• Geeta Leads Ceremony
• Lisa And Allison
• Save It Dont Pave It
• Show Me The Mummy
• Sign Of Times
• Sign Up For Circle

2/9/99 -- Michael & Holly Welsh send us these.

• Photo of Holly Welsh with Richard Hoagland and Robert Ghost Wolf at the "No Trespassing" sign on the newly erected fence.
• Smithsonian Institution representatives examining the site.
• View of site was taken looking east from the Brickell Avenue bridge.

2/8/99 -- Photos from Mark Diamond

• Here are the media trucks on site.
• Miami Circle Task Force.
• Robert Ghostwolf addresses the Task Force.
• Richard Hoagland addresses the Task Force.
• Geeta, born in Mexico, is currently a Mayan healer and wisdom keeper trained by Mayan shaman don Jacinto. Geeta came to the site because of a vision she received during a healing ceremony in California. After hearing news about the Miami circle two weeks later, she was moved to visit the site where she realized this was the circle she had seen in her vision.
• Here we see Geeta performing ceremony and prayer at the site for those who gathered. She prayed for enlightenment, compassion and gratitude for the preservation of what she felt was a sacred site.
• Jim Adams from the National Park Service
• Jim at the Dade Heritage Trust where a meeting of the Save Our Circle Task Force took place to determine how to save the archeological site.
• A new additional fence was put up outside the old fence!

2/3/99 -- Photos from Mark Diamond

• Here is the sign at Brikell Pointe.
• Hoagland and Ghostwolf in the shadows of the Tequesta.
• Hoagland and Ghostwolf at Miami Circle
• Richard at the gate to the site.
• Robert Ghostwolf
• Tequesta Condo Sign

2/3/99 -- Jamie-Andrea Yanak provides more high-quality photos.

• Here is a view showing the location of the circle, at the mouth of the Miami River. The circle is on the peninsula in the foreground.
• This photo is another overview, taken from the Brickell Avenue Bridge.
• Another overview, taken from the roof of the Sheraton's parking garage. The tugboat is a nice touch.
• This is one of the archaeologists assistants. He was the first one diggin in the dirt that day.
• This is a picture of a sign, that shows what Brickell Pointe is going to look like. Brickell Pointe is the apartment complex that will be built on the land.
• This one shows the whole dig, and the folks working on it.
• A closer up shot of the east end of the circle.
• This is the west side of the circle.
• This is a close-up shot of one of the artifacts that was found at the site. It's called a "plummet," and is made out of shell. The archaeologists tell me it was probably worn as a piece of jewelry or as an ornament.

2/1/99 -- Photos from Mark Diamond

• "Miami Circle " taken today just before the candle light vigil began.
• The hand has a turtle and shark vertebrae found at the site.

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