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A NewsletterTraveller of the Bartram Conference Fall, 2007 President’s Notes Mobile-Tensaw Delta Dear Friends:

Setting of the 2007 Conference n late June 1775, left the frontier with a “company arly one morning, passing along some Iof adventurers,” bound for Mobile. Once old uncultivated fields, a few miles there, Bartram explored “the bay of Mo- above“E , I was struck with surprise at bile” and the “Taensa, a pretty high bluff, the appearance of a blooming plant, gilded on the Eastern channel of the great Mo- with the richest golden yellow, stepping on bile river, about thirty miles above Fort shore, I discovered it to be a new species of Conde, or city of Mobile, at the head of the Oenothera (Oenothera grandiflora)… the bay.” Bartram’s host for much of his perhaps the most pompous and brilliant her- time in the British colony of West baceous plant yet known to exist.” William was Major Robert Farmar, who provided Bartram (Travels, p. 406). a canoe for Bartram to explore the delta. Bartram’s account of the discovery of During his excursions, Bartram observed the Oenothera grandiflora (the evening disease that threatened to end his jour- “many artificial mounds of earth and primrose) hints at the life and history of ney—and even his life—and left his vi- other ruins,” the habitations of French the Mobile-Tensaw delta. Native plants sion impaired. settlers who stayed after the British con- were resuming their domination of the Major Farmar’s plantation was located quest of their colony, and “many curious fields left uncultivated after their use near the present Stockton, on the east vegetable productions.” Perhaps none of by Indians or Spanish or French plant- bank of the Tensaw River and America’s his discoveries was as spectacular as the ers. Here the observant explorer spotted, second largest river delta. Formed by the evening primrose, which still blooms in among abandoned orchards of fig and confluence of the and Tombig- the Tensaw. peach trees, “many curious vegetable pro- bee Rivers, which combine to form the This fall, the Conference ductions,” including the Wax tree, canes, Mobile River, the delta is home to 67 rare, will revisit Bartram’s Tensaw journey. The “Cypress trees of astonishing magnitude,” imperiled, threatened, or endangered spe- 2007 Bartram Trail Conference Bien- and “stately columns of the Magnolia cies. Roots of its trees and plants drink nial meeting will be held October 26–28, grandiflora.” from the waters of about 100,000 miles 2007, at the beautiful new Five Rivers His trek up the delta of the Mobile and of streams and rivers in Alabama, Geor- Center, the launch point for the Bartram Tensaw rivers was an afterthought. On gia, , and , capturing Canoe Trail. Five Rivers is the gateway his trip to Baton Rouge on the Missis- rich soils from mountains and fields hun- to the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, the sippi, he had traveled to the Mobile area dreds of miles away. The estuary spreads second largest river delta system in the with a band of traders and “adventurers.” over a fifty-mile-long, ten-mile-wide area continental U.S. and Alabama’s largest Delayed in finding a boat to Manchac, he of marsh, cypress-tupelo swamp, and bot- federally designated National Natural took a detour into the delta of the Mobile tomland. Landmark. The eighty-acre site features and Tensaw rivers. He “set off from Mo- The restoration of nature that he saw, seven newly constructed state-of-the- bile up the river in a trading boat, and was interrupted for almost two hundred years, art buildings, including a visitor center, a landed at Taensa bluff, the seat of Major has now returned to the land. In the years Nature Center Complex, an exhibit hall, Farmar… to spend some days in his fam- following Bartram’s excursion, farming and, of course, Bartram Landing, the ter- ily.” In “a light canoe” he continued his and timber harvesting dominated the minus of the Bartram Canoe Trail. Come voyage up the river. delta. But in the 1950s various Alabama and meet old friends, make new ones, While the Mobile-Tensaw was a rich agencies began to acquire land along the feast on great southern foods, explore botanical experience for Bartram, it also river system. By 2000, the state and fed- the Bartram Canoe Trail, see historic left him with a life-changing affliction. It eral governments owned about 100,000 sites and hear the latest scholarship on was during this journey in the summer of acres. The state of Alabama sets aside a William Bartram. Our sponsors for the 1775 that he contracted the mysterious continued on page 2 continued on page 3

1 Mobile-Tensaw Delta, continued from Page 1 Finding the Fort and Bartram, Too portion of the interest collected from off- shore oil leases for deposit into the Forever Mike Cordle Wild Land Trust, and funnels a significant portion of these funds into projects in the don’t think I can walk that far, delta. Mike.” Biologists, bird watchers, and outdoor “I“Sure you can, Mother. Now I brought enthusiasts consider the Mobile-Tensaw you on this trip to see everything. I want Delta a treasure. The Alabama legislature to see what that historical marker says, and designated the Bartram Canoe trail in I can’t just leave you in the car. Let’s go.” 1976. In 2000, the Department of Conser- My mother couldn’t walk very well. She vation and Natural Resources began plan- had had both knees and both hips replaced, ning, building, and marking multiple but when I said “go” she usually tried to do and officially opened them to the public in her best and keep walking. So it was on Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson State Historic Site 2003. In 2004, they installed floating plat- that Sunday afternoon at Fort Toulouse, forms for camping. About 200 miles of ca- near Wetumpka, Alabama, that we started wonder who he was and why he is so im- noe trails now wind their way through the our journey together across uneven ground portant? bayous and rivers, skirting islands where to see a historical marker that lay ahead. “I’ve seen a brief reference to him in the crowns of grand cypresses preside over The sky was blue and the weather was very the history book, Mother, but I’m not abundant shrubs and wildflowers. Ospreys inviting that spring day. Mother and I had sure what’s so important about him. I’ll and swallow-tailed kites soar over slow- set out from Jasper earlier that morning find out, though. Now, aren’t you glad you moving rivers; vireos and other songbirds on a quest to find the legendary fort. walked this far?” flit among the branches of oaks. In the fall of 1991, I had begun teaching “Oh yes. It is very beautiful out here,” The 2007 Bartram Trail Conference Alabama History at Walker High School. she replied. “Alabama has lots of beauti- will meet on the edge of the Tensaw River, Sadly, however, I found that there were ful sites if only everyone knew about them. some twenty miles south of “the seat of no materials for use in the classroom. As This is one of the neatest places we’ve ever Major Farmar,” and will give considerable I prepared to teach the course that year visited. There’s a big variety of plants and attention to the delta and its role in Bar- I read the textbook with great interest, trees around here.” tram’s explorations. A conference high- and I wanted to see those sites for my- Thus, my search to find the “real Wil- light will be a canoe trip through waters ❀ self. I knew that teaching kids about those liam Bartram” began. I would spend the traveled by Bartram. places would be a lot easier if I had some next 16 years continuing the search that slides and firsthand knowledge of the would take us all over Alabama, Georgia First in a Series places mentioned in the book. So, away we and north Florida, and through many went to visit and learn about the period of books, articles and adventures. his article is first in a series of stories French Alabama. My mother’s journey along the Bartram sent to The Traveller by members who Fort Toulouse was just as I had pictured Trail ended in September of 1996. I’m haveT searched out and explored sites that it—an old wooden fort with bastions set pretty sure Bartram himself was waiting Bartram described. at the confluence of the Coosa and Tal- for her at the end of her trail to welcome In future editions of The Traveller we will lapoosa Rivers. The lay to her to a new kind of arboretum. My search continue to feature articles, written by the south of the fort and all around the continued, however. Although I no longer members of the Bartram Trail Conference, fort was the natural vegetation of the area. teach history, the book Cold Mountain re- on their “discoveries” along the trail. We Spanish moss hung from the trees and all newed my interest a couple of years ago, invite you to send us an article, about 700 words long, on a site that you visited. forms of plant life sprang from the soil in and in the fall of 2006 I traveled to Au- • every direction. The nature trail lay ahead burn to attend the Bartram Seminar and How did you find it? • Who was on the journey? and spiraled its way into the looming for- to continue my journey along the Bar- • What did you see? est north and east of the fort. tram Trail. I now incorporate an excerpt • What did you learn? It was a beautiful experience. She and from his journals and notes about his life A team of Bartram Trail Conference mem- I ate a picnic lunch there on the grounds in the curriculum for tenth grade Honors bers will select articles for printing in The of the fort, and we toured the little mu- English and the works of Henry David Traveller. seum built to shelter the story of the fort Thoreau. So, like my mother, I just keep Send your story to The Traveller editor Jim along with a few artifacts and other items walking and try to push my students just a Kautz by email at [email protected] of interest in the . We little farther, step by step, toward another ❀ or to 204 Weatherstone Pkwy. Marietta, walked up to the sign and read all about marker along the Bartram Trail. Georgia. Deadline for submissions to the William Bartram, the Naturalist who had Mike Cordle Spring edition is January 31. explored this area during the years relevant 3411 Old Birmingham Hwy. to the American Revolutionary period. Jasper, Alabama 35501 “William Bartram!” Mother said, “I

2 Return to Cowee Jim Kautz “…we were surprised by a sudden very loud and shrill whoop, uttered at once by a com- pany of young fellows…,” William Bartram, describing part of a celebration in the council-house on the mound of Cowee, (Travels, XXX). n April 23, 2007, the “Warriors of AniKituhwa,” a band of Odancers, brought the whoop back to the land. And the sound returned from the hills above the . “An echo,” I thought. “The hills are welcoming them back.” Daniel “Sonny” Ledford, leader of the Warriors, amended my European-nur- tured, quasi-scientific sentiment. “We are taught,” said the burly dancer gently, “that those are the voices of the ancient ones calling back.” with James and his heirs to arrange a sale people who stayed back east after the Re- The ancient voices had reason tore- of the property, increasingly valuable in a moval. “The Creator,” he said, “wanted the joice. The dancers were celebrating the rapidly developing, attractive valley, and Eastern Cherokee to stay behind to make return of the Cowee mound and its sur- to ensure its conservation. The LTLT put sure the tribe’s homeland remained pro- rounding 71 acres to the Eastern Band of up some of the funds and turned to the tected. Today, the prophecy has been ful- the Cherokees. Clean Water Manage- filled. We are not just reclaiming property. Bartram made Cowee his base for ex- ment Trust Fund for a grant to cover a We are, in fact, rebuilding the tribe.” ploring “The Cherokee Mountains” in portion of the land’s cost, based on the Carlson said the land would continue southwestern North Carolina in 1775. preservation of a half-mile of riverfront. to be managed as it is now, for habitat His descriptions of the town and its peo- The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians protection and in regards to agricultural ple give us insights into the landscape of financed the remainder of the purchase. history. He emphasized that the Chero- the important Cherokee capital city and At April’s celebration across the river kee have agreed that the site of the settle- ❀ its large council-house that stood on “an from the mound, more than one hundred ment will not be commercialized. ancient artificial mount of earth.” And his people, many of them arriving from the keen, sympathetic observations of the cer- town of Cherokee in buses, heard Prin- President’s Notes, continued from page 1 emony in the council-house help us un- cipal Chief Michell Hicks of the Eastern meeting will be the Alabama Department derstand the life of the Cherokee people Band and Paul Carlson of the Land Trust of Conservation and Natural Resources, near the end of their tenure on the land. speak of the importance of acquiring the the Baldwin County Department of Ar- About fifteen months after Bartram’s tract. “This property is not just about a chives and History, and the Alabama Mu- visit, Revolutionary forces burned the mound,” said Hicks. “It is about a way of seum of Natural History. I hope to see you ❀ town. In the 1820s, a decade before life. This used to be the New York City of there. Cherokees were removed from the area the Cherokee people.” Kathryn Braund, President by force, the rich bottomland became the The tribe has no plans to develop the Bartram Trail Conference property of the Hall family. The Halls held property, he said. It will be managed un- onto the land, operating a successful farm, der a conservation easement and will one until the death of Katherine Hall Porter day offer interpretive signs, environmental The Traveller is the newsletter of in 2002. After her husband James Porter education programs, and a park. the Bartram Trail Conference. inherited the property, he said that the Tom Belt, a Cherokee language in- Cherokee people should own the land. structor at Western Carolina University, Jim Kautz, Editor The Land Trust for the Little Tennes- also addressed the group. Belt, a member Brad Sanders, Publisher see (LTLT), a conservation organization of the Cherokee Nation, said he grew up Zelda White, Editorial Assistan based in Franklin, North Carolina, worked in Oklahoma hearing stories about the

3 William Bartram Rain Garden Progress on the Nature Park he Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy, located in the Phinizy SwampT near Augusta, reports significant activity over the past year at the William Bartram Rain Garden. Dana Putnam, the Academy’s Pub- lic Relations and Event Coordinator, says that, as part of the DSM Chemicals Torch Dreams Project, DSM Chemicals employees and their families gathered in the fall to build hummocks, raised hills within the Rain Garden that will create habitat for trees and animals. The hum- mock project was completed with the help of a crane. During the past winter, DSM Chemicals used funds from the Torch Dreams project to begin construction of a boardwalk around the Rain Garden. In January, members of the Columbia County Rotary Club volunteered their time to assist with this construction. In the coming months, more boardwalks will be completed around the Rain Garden as a result of grant funds received from will demonstrate ecological uses of reten- sibilities at Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, the Lowe’s Charitable and Educational tion ponds, create safe educational oppor- and educate visitors about America’s first Foundation. tunities for Academy field trips and kids’ naturalist, William Bartram, and his trav- ❀ The William Bartram Rain Garden clubs, provide additional recreational pos- els through the Augusta area.

or ten in a morning, and four or five in him, or he flies away directly for two or the afternoon. Their food is chiefly ber- three hundred yards, before he settles on on ries and seeds of the country; their flesh the ground. There is something very re- is white, and choice food. I believe they markable in what we call their thumping, the Ruffed Grouse breed but once a year, in the spring, and which they do with their wings, by clap- hatch twelve or fourteen at a brood, which n 1750, John Bartram described the ping them against their sides, as the hunt- keep in a company towards the following Ruffed grouse in a letter to Peter Col- ers say. They stand upon an old fallen tree, spring. Many have attempted to raise the Ilinson. Tom Hallock recently uncovered that has lain many years on the ground, young ones, and to tame them; but to no the text in a book that is housed in the where they begin their strokes gradually, purpose. When hatched under a hen, they Francis Harper Collection at the Spencer at about two seconds of time distant from escape into the woods soon after they are Library, University of Kansas. one another, and repeat them quicker and hatched, where they either find means to quicker, until they make a noise like thun- ❀ subsist, or perish.” “The Ruffed Heath-cock, or der at a distance; which continues, from Grous… also called the pheasant.” the beginning, about a minute; then ceas- “The Ruffed Heath-cock, or Grous... also 1 eth for about five or six or eight minutes, called the pheasant.” John Bartram to Pe- John Bartram before it begins again. The sound is heard ter Collinson, July 15, 1750.” Reprinted in “He is a fine bird when his gaiety is dis- near half a mile, by which means they George Edwards, Gleanings of Natural History, played, that is, when he spreads his tail like are discovered by the hunters, and many Exhibiting Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, of them are killed. I have shot many of Plants, &c. Most of which have not, till now, been that of a turkey-cock, and erects a circle of either Figured or Described. With Descriptions of feathers round his neck like a ruff, walking them in this position; but never saw them seventy different subjects, Designed, Engraved, very stately with an even pace, and making thump, they mostly seeing me first, and and Coloured after Nature, on fifty Copper-Plate a noise something like a turkey; at which so left off. They commonly exercise in Prints. (London: Royal College of Physicians, time the hunter must fire immediately at thumping spring and fall, at about nine 1758). Volume 1 [of 3]. Pp. 79–81)

4 he Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University re- centlyT displayed an exhibit on William Bartram’s Journey at the Bartram. “Bartram’s Journey: the 1775 Journey of William Bartram to Western Mountain Heritage Center North Carolina” traced the life of Bar- tram and his keen observation of not only plant life, but of the people and places he encountered throughout his travels in the southeastern . The exhibit was created as part of a col- laboration between the Mountain Heri- tage Center, the Highland Biological Sta- tion, and the Cashiers Historical Society. Coinciding with the exhibit was a three- day symposium sponsored by The Ca- shiers Historical Society, which explored the travels of Bartram to Western North Carolina. At the same time, the nearby Highlands Biological Station’s “William Bartram Trail” made its debut. The trail features, in an appealing mountain set- ting, some 30 mountain and piedmont species with Bartram connections. “Bartram’s Journey” was on display at the Mountain Heritage Center on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina from May 30 through August 20, 2007. For more information, call 828–227–7129 or see ❀ www.wcu.edu/mhc.

Readers Can Help the Project he subject is leaves. Leaves from the Franklinia alata- maha. TCharlotte Porter, a longtime, faithful member and leader of the Bartram Trail Conference, is in search of leaves from the Franklinia alatamaha. She writes, “For an ongoing botanical analysis of phy- logenetics of the Franklin Tree, I would welcome fresh specimens of the leaves. If you can procure leaves and wish to partake in the study, please email me for easy instructions. No experience required!” Some members already have sent specimens. Anyone having leaves to contribute should contact Charlotte at [email protected], or at Charlotte M. Porter, Ph.D. P. O. 117800, Dickinson Hall, , Gainesville, FL 32611–7800 To learn moare about Franklinia alatamaha visit Historic Bartram Garden’s web site, http://www.bartramsgarden.org/franklinia/

5 “Speritous Liquors” Advertisement… What Would Billy Do? What’s wrong with this picture?

t’s from a historical series of prints, pub- lished in 1946 as part of an advertising Icampaign. On the carriageway in front of a three story stone house stand three well-attired men. A lean, gray-haired, bespectacled gentleman holds a trowel in one hand and extends a pair of roses to his guest with the other. Behind him, a younger man, holding pruning shears, looks on. A dark-skinned man with curly hair doffs his hat from a kneeling posi- tion. Beneath the print is the caption: “John Bartram in his botanical garden, with de Crevecoeur, French man-of-letters— Philadelphia, 1769.” Tom Hallock found the advertisement in the Harper Collection in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library of the Univer- sity of Kansas while gathering materials for a planned edition of Bartram manu- scripts. Nothing is wrong with the picture, as far as we know. It’s probably as good a likeness of the Bartrams, their garden and their home as we can get. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur did, indeed, visit Kingsessing and see freed slaves working there. The accompanying quotation from de Crevecoeur’s “Letters of an American Farmer” is also authentic.1 The picture is fine. What’s off-base is the setting of a print of the Bartrams in an ad promoting the “heritage” of a brand of whiskey. names to a whiskey product.” He cites as & let them be rigorously enforced[.] That Hallock notes that the John Bartram an example a meditation (possibly a draft there should be no Tippling houses & only frequently wrote on temperance. “In letter) that William Bartram penned on such a quantity of Speritous Liquors vended short,” he says, “John and William Bar- the back of an undated plant request: to a person, so much as be sufficient to relieve tram would have been the last to lend their him in case of any natural bodily complaint You call committes & approve Trustees &c & no more. Taverns should be under strict for the Relief of the Poor (Paupers as they Regulations & restrictions with respect to 1. Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hec- are termed by the richer[.] this is an Anual tor St. John de Crevecoeur, reprinted from vending Speritous Liquors. For it is Obvi- expenc by way of Charity & offered gener- the original ed., with a prefatory note by W. ous, that the unrestrain’d use of Speritous P. Trent and an introduction by Ludwig Lew- ally by donations, Ward & City contribu- Liquors is the cause of Poverty among the isohn. New York, Fox, Duffield, 1904. For- tions[.] Would it not be better to for a plan poor Labouring people Mechanicks” (HSP, matted and linked to xroads: Eric J. Gislason to prevent Poverty, which would be of less Bartram Papers, 4:92). 2/6/96. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/ expence & more certain[.] Let the Legisla- CREV/letter11.html ture, contemplate this Affair[.] Make Laws continued on page 7

6 Bartram Trail Conference Members oped an interest in William Bartram. Her with his family to Clarke County. He Davida Hastie quest began as she searched for informa- earned a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the tion on Major Farmer and the location University of Georgia and has completed lmost eight years ago, Sam Hodges, a of his plantation. When she found that some work towards a master’s degree there. reporter for the Mobile Press-Regis- Bartram had made Farmer’s home near A skilled graphic designer and photogra- terA, wrote, “Anyone on the hunt for infor- Stockton his base in the delta, she read pher, he teaches graphic communications mation about the Mobile-Tensaw Delta more about the explorer. By 1976, her at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens. will get used to hearing a two-word com- recognition of Bartram’s importance led In addition, he has taught himself mand: ‘See Davida.’ The reference is to the Baldwin County Historical Society to and is considered an important authority Davida Hastie, a lifelong resident of the press successfully to have the Bartram Ca- on Bartram’s plants. Stockton area, and an authority on Delta noe Trail established by Governor George Besides his constant pursuit of Bartram history and folkways.” 1 Wallace. She attended the Bartram Trail history and science, Brad conducts his- Davida Hastie was 73 then and was Conference meeting that year and has torical research, writes, and gives lectures noted as a leader of history-related proj- continued to mingle with other members and visual presentations on Bartram and ects in her area north of Mobile. So of the Conference at their gatherings over botany. He currently is researching a book important was she as a contact for ar- the past thirty years. on the travels of George Washington chaeologists, that the Journal of Alabama As with many others who hold an in- through the south in 1791. Archaeology dedicated an edition to her. terest in Bartram, Davida Hastie also pur- A visit to Brad’s home on the outskirts Other awards have come her way, includ- sues conservation causes. She was a leader of Athens includes a walk to a garage. He ing a Silver Anniversary Award in 1991 in a movement that helped protect a por- opens the door, flips a light switch, and for “Distinguished Service to the State tion of the Tensaw River from industrial displays the results of another of his pas- of Alabama.” Numerous sites in Baldwin pollution. In her 1999 interview, she said: sions: he restored to shiny, engine-roaring County have historic markers due to her They can give you all the scientific condition a red 1946 Farmall tractor. On efforts. She played a major role in estab- reasons that (the woods) are being im- the side, he raises vegetables, hikes, kay- lishing an interpretive trail at Fort Mims. proved, but it’s awfully hard to think of aks, and persistently remodels his house. A native of Stockton, Alabama, the young people growing up and not seeing What does Bartram bring to Brad’s town where she still lives, Davida’s histor- a canopied forest anywhere. I don’t think mind? “The most important thing that we ical activity began modestly. She and her so much maybe is wrong with cutting can get from reading Travels” he says, “is husband owned and operated Live Oak heavy in some places, but the technology a vision of how the landscape looked be- Lodge (now called Live Oak Landing) on we have to remove trees is removing them fore it was transformed by European style Tensaw River from 1948 until 1982. At to such a degree that something is going agriculture.” first renting cypress boats and selling bait to suffer. Sometimes progress is knowing As publisher of The Traveller, Brad and groceries to fishermen, they expanded when to stop. provides graphic design, organizes the ar- into renting parking spaces for trailers. ticles, and brings each edition into print. The fishing business couldn’t contain He has attended five biennial meetings of Brad Sanders ❀ her curiosity or energy, however. She told the Bartram Trail Conference. Hodges: rad Sanders grew up on the Bar- I wasn’t a very good student. But being tram trail. As a boy, he roamed the at Live Oak, I knew we could find pottery forestsB along a ridge southeast of Athens, Whiskey, continued from page 6 and old china, an arrowhead or two, so I unaware that it was William Bartram’s Tom also notes that in 1792 Bartram got to thinking maybe I would see who Great Ridge (“a continuous high forest; wrote to : lived here before we did, and worked on the soil fertile and broken into moderately that a little. I joined the Baldwin County elevated hills, by the many rivulets which Perhaps the Unhealthiness of the People in Historical Society, to learn a little about have their sources in it.”—Travels, 41). the lower Region of the Carolina’s & Geor- these things and talk to people who knew When he began reading Travels in gia, is more owing to the intemperate use of much more than I did. This was around 1992, Brad discovered that he had been Ardent Sperits, fermented Liquors, high sea- 1970, I reckon. At that time, a lot of el- tromping historic ground. His boyhood soned, & Flesh food &c. than to the Native derly people belonged to the Society, and escapades became a launching pad for a Air they breathe & Water which Nature I was younger, and so for that reason I got life of study. He set a goal of visiting and furnishes them with for cooling drink. the job of being president. photographing each place that Bartram A more complete discussion of Bartram’s Within a few years, Davida had devel- mentioned. This quest eventually became opinions about “sperits” will be available in Guide to William Bartram’s Travels (Fever- 1. Mobile Press-Register, January 12, 1999 Thomas Hallock and Nancy E. Hoffman, (http://www.al.com/specialreport/mobilereg- tree Press, 2002) an invaluable book for editors, “William Bartram’s Manuscripts,” those who seek the Bartram Trail. a two-volume publication (University of ister/index.ssf?delta2/a215621a.html, 30 July ❀ 2007) Brad was born in Atlanta and moved Georgia Press, forthcoming).

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Bartram Trail Conference 2007 Biennial Meeting Call for Silent Auction Items

e are going to have a silent auction at the meeting in October! Here are some good ideas; items that we have and some we have seen: This is lots of fun and all proceeds will go to support the Bar- • a framed color poster of the town of as it appeared when Wtram Trail Conference. If you are not familiar with silent auctions, we Bartram visited are asking people to donate appropriate items that will attract bids at • a 1928 Birds of Florida book with color illustrations the conference. We will put the items out on a table with a bid sheet • an antediluvian shell from Bartram’s Alabama Black Belt attached to each one. During Friday evening and Saturday, folks view • a gift basket of souvenirs from Alabama the displays and record their bids on the bid sheets. At the end of the • a hand-drawn copy of one of Bartram’s drawings • various T-shirts day on Saturday, we will close the bidding and announce the winners. • a free trip to the Alabama Museum of Natural History’s famous Then the high bidders can settle up with the Treasurer and pick up their fossil locality, Shark-Tooth Creek goodies. • Indian Festival from Moundville Archaeological Park Here’s what we want you to do! • a hand-blown Williamsburg reproduction bottle We want you to donate outdoors, natural history or Bartram-related • an antique clay jug from Alabama items that our members might like to bid on. You can donate items from • a copy of Dead Towns of Alabama, now out of print your own collection, buy them specifically for donation to the BTC si- • various prints & paintings •photographs • objets d’art • lent auction, arrange to have them donated through your business or If you think you can help, or just want to talk about things, from businesses with whom you have asking-rights or even come up Contact: John Hall with some scheme of your own! These can range from relatively minor Phone: (o) 205-348-7554, (h) 205–553–1645 to fairly expensive, though substantial items tend to make more money E-mail: [email protected] for the Conference. Address: Box 870340, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

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