Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - Walmart, Jackson OH
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Mallards, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 24, 2011
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I stopped in Marietta OH to get Bob Wark's take on what I'm dragging along in the trailer. Bob knows a wee bit about it and the story behind it and If it ever stops raining I'll open the trailer and show you what I'm up to.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Jackson OH
Walmart Supercenter Store #1519, 100 Walmart Dr, Jackson, OH 45640 - (740) 288-2700
- Good level parking - request you park to the far right along the grass
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk
Hickory was another favorite. Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. "They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid" to make a thick milk, "as sweet as fresh cream, an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially hominy and corncakes." Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial - fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.