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By ROBERTS. HILL
MAPIETTA, OHIO - I write these words in my study overlooking the Muskingum River, a few hundred yards above its confluence with the Ohio. The trees along the bank keep from sight, this time of year, the towers of the town - church and college and courthouse - across the river.
In the park just upstream stands a sculpture called “The Start Westward” by Gutzon Borglum, the creator of Mount Rushmore. Borglum’s pioneers disembark there, much as the first settlers of Marietta did in April of 1788, beginning the colonization of Northwest Territory of the United States - the vast domain stretching out from the Ohio to the Mississippi, encompassing Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota. Today flags from those states fly from flagstaffs newly planted on the flanks of the monument. For Marietta’s bicentennial celebration is starting soon, and the community knows it is an occasion of more than local importance.
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