Historical Elijah Clark State Park

This morning Billy and I started "moving" a bit earlier than usual because we were scheduled to chaperon about 90 school children enjoying a tour of Elijah and Hannah Clark's homestead followed by a picnic in the park. The tour was fascinating for me to hear because the park has on display Hannah Clark's original Walking Wheel and her loom. I eagerly watched a demonstration on how the wool is gathered, placed on the walking wheel, dyed, and then placed on the loom to weave. The wheel and loom are in working order and are actually utilized. Why am I interested? My sister and I each have our Great Grandmother's and Great Great Grandmother's Walking Wheel; however, we did not understand exactly how they worked. Learn something new every day. In the park last year we enjoyed seeing the twin yearling almost every day. They should be full-grown now so we would no longer recognize them. We were told that triplets were born this year, but we have not seen them until today. Near Elijah and Hannah Clark's cabin the mother deer has nested down one female deer alone and two males a short distance away in the brush. We were told that at dusk Mom comes out and gets the female to nest them down together for the evening. On Sunday they popcorn at the cabin and in the late afternoon they place some additional popcorn in a basket outside for the Mom deer. Each and every Sunday they Mom comes up to the cabin and stomps her foot to let folks know she is present, then she tips the basket over to enjoy her popcorn treat. Also present in the park is a litter of fox, but Mom has recently moved them to points unknown. We were looking forward to going to Dothan, AL on Monday to attend Micah and Lisa's wedding reception. Billy is sporting a kidney stone so we have had to cancel our plans in order to get in to see a DR as soon as possible.