Judy and I are currently traveling in “The Heartland of America.” We tend to like the state parks and the back roads over the big cities and the interstate highways. Occasionally that gets us in a pickle. We stopped in a small town called Parkin Arkansas and visited an archeological site where the Spaniard, Hernando de Soto met the natives at Casque, a fortified village some 465 years ago on the bank of the St. Francis River. It was interesting to walk around the village site which had been enclosed in a man made mote and see the man made hill in the middle of the village for the Chief’s house. Quite a feat for a people whose best tool was a stone adze made of chert mined in the hills about 25 miles away.