Eleven thousand years ago, the glaciers striated rocks, ground trees and dirt from cliffs.
Sea cows swam off the coast of New Jersey, crocodiles journeyed from the Indian Ocean up the Nile.
On the Devonian shield, mastodons watched the ice. The sabertooths would taste dental fillings, disintegrated orthodontist offices. Lucid under their claws was Singapore, the town now buried under dunes where the Kalamazoo River feeds into Lake Michigan. Their images of the future were sepia-flavored and when the ice dam burst the flood swept past Chicago and gored out the tar pits. Spindler '99 of Holland, Michigan, was Michigan Today's 1998-99 student intern.