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The Burlington Earth Clock, an art piece dedicated to peace, is the first project for Circles for Peace, a Vermont group that touts inner peace and strength through observing the rhythms of nature.

The Earth Clock consists of 12 five-and-a-half-foot-high stones in a ring. The center of the circle is a sundial of flat stones. At the center, looking west to the Adirondacks, the five stones on that side are positioned to mark the location on the horizon where the sun sets at the solstices and equinoxes and at the mid-points between these times of the year.

What time is it? Check the angle of the shadows from the stones at the Burlington Earth Clock at Blanchard Beach, just north of Oakledge Park, in Burlington, Vermont. The last stone was placed Nov. 11, 2006, completing the Stonehenge-like structure. The eclectic design team is Patrick MacManaway, MD, president of the British Society of Dowsers, Ivan McBeth, a stone circle builder from the U.K. who now resides in Vermont, and Vermont?EUR??,,????'???s Andrea Morgante, who volunteered her services as landscape architect and project manager.

Rock of Ages Quarry donated the stones, delivered by Belavance Trucking on two tractor-trailer flat beds. Gardner’s Supply contributed items at cost. The Intervale Compost Project donated 200 yards of compost and topsoil, and the Waterwheel Foundation (started by the members of the band Phish with profits from Ben & Jerry?EUR??,,????'???s ?EUR??,,????'??Phish Food?EUR??,,????'??) made a financial gift.