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Holy Land’ Zoo Celebrates 20 Years Sedona Gardens of St VACATION/TRAVEL SUPPLEMENT Photos by Patricia Happel Cornwell Above, clockwise, American lotuses, members of the water lily family, line the banks of the lake at Lincoln State Park opposite the boat rental house. Kelly Kuchenbrod of Evansville, Ind., a volunteer at O’Bannon Woods State Park, demonstrates how wool yarn is created with a traditional spinning wheel. This log cabin is the hub of the pioneer farmstead at Lincoln State Park, and is located about 50 feet from the bronzed foundation and hearth of the cabin where the Lincoln family lived from 1816 until 1830. A white-tailed fawn stares at tourists from the edge of the woods in Harmonie State Park. See related story, page 2B. Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo courtesy Al Brown Photo courtesy Photo courtesy San Diego Zoo Desert beauty Kentucky’s ‘Holy Land’ Zoo celebrates 20 years Sedona Gardens of St. John Vianney are breathtaking, Bardstown played key role in growth of U.S. Church, page 6B. Koalas get summer vacation at Indianapolis Zoo, page 16B. page 5B. Page design by Ann Sternberg Page 2B Vacation/Travel Supplement The Criterion Friday, May 23, 2008 History and harmony O’Bannon, Lincoln and Harmonie state parks offer lots of fun activities for everyone The restored home By Patricia Happel Cornwell Special to The Criterion of Union Army Col. William Jones SOUTHERN INDIANA—Indiana has 24 state parks, “In wildness is lies within the but many Hoosiers may not know that tucked away in the preservation boundaries of the southwest corner are three beautiful parks: of the world.” Lincoln State Park. He O’Bannon Woods, Lincoln and Harmonie. is remembered as the You can reach these parks by State Road 62 from first employer of New Albany or I-65 south to I-265 west then I-64 west. — Henry David young Abraham But if you take the interstates, you miss seeing Thoreau Lincoln, who was a Possum Junction, Little Pigeon Creek and Frog Pond clerk at his store. Road. I prefer the “back way” past swallowtail butterflies feeding on Joe Pye Weed, fields of corn and cattle, hilltop farmhouses, small towns, the bell towers Eighty miles of horse of Saint Meinrad Archabbey and sycamores lining trails loop through the park Little Blue River. and state forest, and two Department of Natural Resources park fees are $4 per horsemen’s camps are car on Monday through Thursday, $5 per car on available, one with Friday through Sunday and on holidays, and $7 for electricity. Lincoln State Park has cabins, campsites, a non-residents. A $36 annual pass for Hoosiers covers Wildflower gardens grace the approach to the nature swimming pool, nature center, hiking trails, a small admission to all the state parks. An annual pass for a center, where year-round activities range from children’s wetland and the Sarah Lincoln Woods Nature Preserve. non-resident with an out-of-state license plate costs $46. programs on creepy, crawly things to canoe trips and guided Lincoln Lake has a boathouse and paddleboats. I Properties are open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. for day cave exploration. was fascinated by stands of American lotuses on the users. The area west of Corydon is on Central Time so A short walk through a butterfly garden behind the center water with unreal and very photogenic six-inch yellow Lincoln and Harmonie state parks are an hour “behind” brings you to the 1830s-era farmstead, the hub of living blooms. Indianapolis. These parks do not have lodges. Campsite history demonstrations enacted on several weekends during History fans will want to visit the gravesite of and cabin fees vary by location. the summer. We watched costumed volunteers ply such Abraham Lincoln’s sister, Sarah Lincoln-Grigsby, and pioneer skills as blacksmithing, woodworking and spinning. the reconstructed brick farmhouse of William Jones, What makes O’Bannon Woods unique, however, is its Lincoln’s first employer. 1850 hay press, a three-story baling mechanism that is its The Jones home is accessible by foot trail for own barn. Restored in 2000, it is one of only eight surviving serious adult hikers, but it’s a long walk and part of the hay presses in the country and the only one that is still route is along the busy road. The best option is to drive operational. The barn originally also housed cattle, hay and there via Highway 162 by going west two miles to Photos by Patricia Happel Cornwell farm equipment. Gentryville. My husband, John, and I joined a crowd one Saturday to The 1,500-seat outdoor Lincoln Amphitheatre was watch the press work. Operating it requires three attendants built to offer concerts and other entertainment plus a strong draft animal, such as an ox, to turn a wooden throughout the year, but there are no programs “sweep” at the bottom of the building. scheduled this year. Indiana Department of Natural During several weekends a year, “Lion,” a 2,000-pound, Resources personnel expect to reopen it with a new 12-year-old Durham Shorthorn ox earns his hay when he is “Lincoln Drama” in 2009. yoked to the sweep, a horizontal wooden beam, and a Across Highway 162, the Lincoln Boyhood volunteer leads him in a circle. This raises a 500-pound National Memorial will gratify history buffs. Its weight from the second floor to the third level via pulleys as half-moon museum is faced with bas-relief sculptures helpers fork hay into a second-floor compartment. When the and Lincoln quotations. There is no fee to visit the weight falls, it compresses the hay into a 300-pound square memorial. The grave of Lincoln’s mother, Nancy bale. It takes 15 minutes to make one bale. Hanks, is on the property, which is also the site of a Samuel Hewitt of Switzerland County invented the press working 1820s-era pioneer farm. in 1843 to facilitate transportation of hay to urban areas via On the afternoon that we visited the farmstead, barges on the Ohio River. It improved on the earlier goldfinches were harvesting seeds from sunflowers, a “jump press,” so named because men actually jumped on the dove cooed in a tree overhead, and a costumed woman hay to compress it. By the 20th century, steam-powered swept out the cabin. In the barnyard, a man fed a cow, balers made hay presses obsolete. sheep and chickens. Another man did leatherwork in a O’Bannon Woods partially borders the Ohio River and nearby shed. In the summer, Indiana Department of has small-boat access to the Blue River. Natural Resources personnel enact daily Leavenworth and Corydon are close enough to provide demonstrations of pioneer trades. lodging and dining alternatives. Thomas Lincoln, Abe’s father, moved his family to Also nearby are the Corydon First State Capitol, what is now Spencer County in 1816, the year that Wyandotte Caves, Marengo Cave and Squire Boone Caverns. Indiana became a state. Costumed volunteers ready Lion, a Durham Shorthorn ox, for a In 1934, archaeologists uncovered remnants of the demonstration of the restored 1850 hay press at O’Bannon Lincoln State Park cabin where the future president lived for 14 formative Woods State Park. Highway 162 years as a boy and teenager. The bronzed hearth and 15476 N. County Road 300 E. foundation of the simple home can be seen up close O’Bannon Woods Lincoln City, IN 47552 See PARKS, page 11B 812-937-4710 State Park “A culture is Established in Spencer County in 1932 7234 Old Forest Road S.W. no better 1,747 acres Corydon, IN 47112 than its 3 hours or 195 miles from Indianapolis 812-738-8232 1¾ hours or 80 miles from New Albany Established in Harrison woods.” Where to go to Mass: County in 2004 St. Nicholas Church 2,000 acres — W. H. Auden State Road 245 2½ hours or 150 miles from Santa Claus, IN 47579 Indianapolis 812-937-2380 40 minutes or 30 miles from Mass times: 4 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. Sunday New Albany Where to go to Mass: Everybody loves a bargain, especially on vacation, so my St. Joseph Church husband, John, and I were pleased to discover a “twofer” in 312 E. High St. Spencer County. Corydon, IN 47112 Turning west at the junction of State Road 245 and 812-738-2742 State Road 162, we discovered the Lincoln Boyhood Mass times: 6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. Sunday National Memorial directly across the road from Lincoln State Park. O’Bannon Woods is a state park within a state forest. The route to both sites goes past Holiday World in Its 2,000 acres are surrounded by the 24,000-acre Santa Claus so those with kids may be compelled to stop Harrison-Crawford State Forest, a nature preserve. there. If you do, the only hotel is Santa’s Lodge across from Originally called Wyandotte Woods State Recreation the amusement park. Area, it was renamed in 2004 to honor the late Gov. Frank For adults, Christmas Lake Golf Course is nearby. There O’Bannon, a Corydon native. is no lodging in Lincoln City so a visit to the park and A circuitous maze of boxwood hedges eventually leads to a Like most state parks, it offers picnic areas, memorial requires an overnight stay either at Santa’s Lodge, tiny stone chapel in the historic Harmonist Labyrinth on campgrounds, cabins, hiking trails, a swimming pool and in a campsite or cabin at the park, or at one of two hotels Route 69 just south of New Harmony. It symbolizes the nature center.
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