Monument Rock

Down in the general vicinity of Viroqua Wisconsin I drove by an unexpected landmark.

It is called Monument Rock.  My photo hardly does it justice, it is, well as you'd certainly expect, monumental.

It is apparently a chunk of really old rock that just laughed off the glaciers that scoured the area during the last Ice Age.  It balances on an alarmingly skinny base.  Worthy of a moment of admiration although the stories of the Native American population revering it are likely nonsense.

I did get up a bit closer and was happy to see an absence of graffiti.  It looks a parlous climb but I figured local adventurous young people still clamber up it.  What they do up there, oh, best not to imagine.

But before we write off the current gen as scoundrels and scofflaws, I leave you with an image from a 1909 post card:

Graffiti top to bottom and a couple of ads for a patent medicine/health food!  It appears that generations past were also at times scofflaws and scoundrels.