COTTAGE GROVE — At Coiner Park, near the peace tree, lies a cage, very like that of a gym locker. With a two foot-by two foot base, it stretches eight feet tall. In the bottom, a four-foot-tall rack displays almost 200 rocks, each one painted to represent a different country around the world, called unity rocks.
This structure is Cottage Grove’s take on the worldwide Peace Pole initiative. After the bombing in Japan in 1945,…
