Review: Something old, or something...older?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2014
The Newport Tower has never seemed Colonial to me. Nothing about it is in accord with the architectural tenants of the day. To me, it seemed as if the Colonists did what settlers in new lands from the beginning of human history...using what they already found constructed. Th Egyptians did this at Abydos and Giza, the Jews in the Promised Land, and the Romans in Britain. So why not colonists with few resources on the edge of a vast and hostile wilderness? In this short book, the author gives a list of convincing reasons why this view is valid. It does not establish the absolute truth of a pre-Columbian visit, but until someone invents a time-viewer there will always be room for doubt, even if the doubts proffered by the colonial side of the story are the weakest of the lot.