7/14/08 Circle Town

The On-A-Slant village had a population
of 15,000 people before the smallpox.
There's really no good reason to refer to a settlement
that size as a village except that it was a circle town.
Circle houses placed in concentric circles
around a central circle. Circle town for circle people.

I saw the diorama.
I also saw the diorama of the fort.
That was a square town.
Square buildings enclosed by a square fence.
We may feel like we've learned a thing or two since then
but I believe that when we build our circle town
the square people will still call it a village.
And we circle people won't really care.