First posted by the Duke Nicholas School. In the midst of patchwork agricultural fields, grown tall with corn, my husband and I discovered Moores Creek National Battlefield. I use the word ‘discover’ loosely, as the battlefield is clearly marked on the rural North Carolina road. But we were in the middle of a long driving…
Florida State Parks – Ochlockonee River State Park
The squirrel was white. I mean, bright white, scarfing down a snack as it sat on an oak tree limb in Ochlockonee River State Park’s campground. With its beady, dark eyes I knew it wasn’t an albino creature, which begged the question: what was it? Read the rest on Firsthand Florida Fun!
Florida State Parks – Bulow Creek State Park
The tree was massive. Wider than multiple human arm-lengths, the 300-500 year old Live Oak in Bulow Creek State Park – known as the Fairchild Oak – stretched its branches high and wide at the edge of a small, grassy clearing. One particular branch, covered in fern epiphytes, had extended so far from the trunk…
