Comments on: A Gem Hiding In Plain Sight–Table Rock

By: Diane Sower

Diane Sower — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:36:09 +0000

As a very liberal non evangelical type christian, I find that having been here for 57 years counts for nothing. Newcomers don’t like the cross on table rock. Waa waa. Like spending time thinking about that trumps other issues. Also, if we put some kind of park or other monument there, would not the constant stream of cars going up there change the lives of those who live in those homes?

By: cyclops

cyclops — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:59:36 +0000

Now THAT Shoogi, is funny!!

By: Shoogi

Shoogi — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:45:48 +0000

Table Rock should be open to the public during the day as it is the best place to get a good look at the Depot!

By: Mesa Man

Mesa Man — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:53:35 +0000

The gate is there due to the fact of damage to the radio sites after dark. I know, due to the fact I replaced equipment that was shot up, ect. Also the state only owns parts of TR. The southeast side is privately owned. My .02

By: cyclops

cyclops — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:45:51 +0000

Doesn’t it seem strange that the “cross” was a method of execution for centuries before any Christians came along! It is truly weird, to me, that something more accurately attributed to Romulus and Remus is so readily associated with Christianity! Why do some of you seem so afraid of, simply, the method of execution of the times?

By: Clancy

Clancy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:14:02 +0000

Cyclops you hit the nail on the head. Some of the neighbors below would not let that happen and may be in an elected position to make sure it does not.

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:58:45 +0000

That would be very cool indeed, dog. I’ve always thought about opening it up for everyone’s religious symbols and your idea would work great for the Sikhs and their flaming sword.

Not far in the past, the Guardian or some other site made a list of places to go when in Boise. When I’m up there it is often populated with folks visiting from out of town. But as her shrewness points out, its its often in a state of embarrassment. It receives some occasional TLC from a scout troop etc. But it needs to be on the Boise Parks system route with trashcans and regular trash pickup. Also it desperately needs some pit toilets. Some low level walls made from the abundant sandstone up there would give a national park feel yet not detracting from the natural state.

Alas I have no solution for the abundant radio/cell phone towers which create an eyesore.

By: Cross Trainer

Cross Trainer — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:52:55 +0000

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Maybe we should pull down the Lincoln Memorial too, since the word “God” dares to be included in his speech…

By: dog

dog — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:14:28 +0000

I think the flourescent tube lights on the Table Rock cross are really a lame statement for the Boise area “Christians”. If they really wanted the cross to stand for their beliefs, why didn’t they step up to the plate and run a gas line up there and flame the cross on every night?

By: cyclops

cyclops — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:06:09 +0000

KTA, you owe yourself a trip up there. The view is amazing! 30 years ago I attended a planning meeting with the city. Some “long haired” young planner testified that if you went up to Table Rock and looked over the valley, every thing you saw would be doubled by the year 2000. He was summarily dismissed as “nuts”! In hindsight, he was a very smart young man. It is sad that there is virtually no chance of that becoming a park.