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07.02.10Buzzards Own Palmetto Island State Park by John |
We went out to give the boat a run June 25th and wound up at Palmetto Island State Park. Of course we all know it’s finished but there is no money to open it. There are even signs up on the local highways saying Palmetto Island Park and right under that is a sign that says “Park Closed”.
We just eased up in the slip and took a few pictures. The word is that there are a couple of caretakers hired to watch over the buildings. It’s a real shame that all the years of waiting and the millions spent have resulted in a park for buzzards.
My grandson couldn’t wait until I finished taking the pictures so that he could try to holler and scare the buzzards, but they knew they where safe and stayed put.
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10.14.09Bear In My Tent by John |
I remember camping with the Boy Scouts at the Chimney Tops Campground, and a Black Bear came visiting while we slept. If you say there is no such campground you are right, as some years back the Park Service made this jewel in the Smokies a picnic only area.
There had been a lot of bears seen around the area so the Scout Master posted a rotating fire watch through the night. We had our food tied up in trees.
I remember sleeping in a pup tent with a boy named Fowler. During the night I remember half-waking up and saying “Fowler get your leg off me” and he responded that his leg wasn’t on me. Continue Reading…
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10.02.09Camping On White Creek in Tennessee by John |
Boy Scout Memorial-Rhea County, Tennessee
I got to thinking about an old camping trip on White Creek just a few miles south of Rockwood, Tennessee. What amazed me was how much information is on the web related to obscure places like that. This is no national park, but just a big chunk of private land too rugged for development so far.
I thought of the memorial cross next to the Highway 27 bridge across White Creek. A memorial to 7 Boy Scouts and their Scoutmaster who lost their lives in a flash flood there in March of 1929.
I remembered that there was a highway sign nearby for a place called Glen Alice, and I associated the whole beautiful area with that name. A partial inspiration I’m sure for my first daughter’s name. Google Earth shows the spot with very few houses nearby. Continue Reading…
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09.18.09Camping Goat Man Style by John |
Wasting time on YouTube and came up on a video of the Goat Man and it got me rolling down memory lane. Old timers from East Tennessee and North Georgia will remember him.
His name was Charles McCartney. No one around where I grew up knew him by anything other than the Goat Man. The Knoxville News Sentinel would chronicle his progress if he was headed our way, and folks would go out to gawk at him when he was camped nearby. Continue Reading…
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08.19.09My 42 Year Old Sleeping Bag by Juan |
I bought this sleeping bag from Sears in 1967. It still has the label showing the Ted Williams brand. Who would have thought that it would have lasted this long, but it’s still very usable.
The temperature rating is no where to be found, but I remember carefully selecting for Montana in the winter.
I got it for a trip to see my girl friend who was teaching on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation near Havre Montana. The trip was around 2000 miles in December of 1967 and started in Knoxville, TN. Continue Reading…
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