Two years ago we were successful in getting a Cultural/Conservation Easement on a major late prehistoric and contact period archaeological site in NW California. The site was likely the home of my great, great, grandparents prior to the reservation period. It is a huge midden site with a dozen housepit features and evidence of a half dozen burials. Now we are developing and implementing a cultural/natural resources management plan to address fuels management, access and other pressing issues. We will be doing prescribed burning later this month.

u/Oh_umms_cocktails posted a now-removed question about buildings constructed by cults "to summon gods or bring about the end of days" as seen in the 1984 film Ghostbusters.

I hesitate to call them a cult and I don't think their goal was to bring about the end of days, but the Master Building on Riverside Drive and 103rd Street in New York was built by followers of theosophy and a branch of Western esothericism known as Roerichism after its founder, the painter Nicholas Roerich, whose museum is now a few blocks away. Roerich wasn't quite Ivo Shandor, but some parallels are apparent.

The Master Building, begun in 1928, is a 27-story Art Deco skyscraper with a stupa-like tower that is said by some to be the inspiration for the Ghostbusters set (the actual 55 Central Park West building used for shots of the exterior lacks such a feature in real life). At the laying of the cornerstone, which has been said to contain various mythological artifacts, messages of goodwill from Albert Einstein and other luminaries were read.

The Roerichs intended the building to house a museum, school and art center to foster their spiritual movement, but the Great Depression but an end to their grand plans. The building is now a co-op, though it does still host periodic art exhibitions.

Why did all non-Homo Sapien hominids become extinct?

Who was the poorest among the US Founding Fathers?

It seems to me that so many of the identity categories we take as eternal and universal, like "race", "religion", "nation", "sexual orientation" etc etc, are revealed to be historically recent and constructed (if that's the word), modern concepts. I am curious if anyone has ever critiqued "class", particularly in Marxist terms,that way. MLs might get mad at me for this, but it's hard for me to imagine class is not like those other categories, and it seems to me like a very specific European idea...but what do I know.