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The Ohio Snake Art That's Been Mid-Slither For A Millennium

By Noah Adams
Published April 17, 2014 at 3:12 PM MDT
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The Serpent Mound in southern Ohio is 3 feet high and more than 1,300 feet long.

In new installment of the Spring Break series, Noah Adams visits the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio. It's not a burial site; it's a massive, grass-covered effigy of a snake, created a thousand years ago.

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Noah Adams
Noah Adams, long-time co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, brings more than three decades of radio experience to his current job as a contributing correspondent for NPR's National Desk., focusing on the low-wage workforce, farm issues, and the Katrina aftermath. Now based in Ohio, he travels extensively for his reporting assignments, a position he's held since 2003.
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