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I feel cheated. Glaciers have a magical hold on the imagination. They are inert masses of water and ice that lumber blindly along, yet they also calve, give birth to smaller bits of themselves, and radically alter the landmasses under and around them. They are both behemoths and vulnerable; domineering and ephemeral. As John Larson Mitchell suggests in his book, Ceremonial Time , glaciers act as the hand of God, powerfully fashioning the surface of the earth. But here’s my beef: Maryland never had glaciers, at least not in the last glacial period which peaked a mere 20,000 years ago. They never made it down here. They just nipped to the north of us. Which is why most of America’s lakes, especially our large ones, are in the northern part of the northern hemisphere. Because most lakes were carved… read more