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The Traveller The Traveller "The attention of a traveller, should be particularly attuned, in the first place, to the Various works of Nature ..." Newsletter of the Bartram Trail Conference I Fall 2004 President's Notes off, as flax or dry seeds whirl'd aloft & floating in the Air" (Report to Fothergill, APS Transactions 33 :2, 162-3.). As I sat in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, under darkening skies and menacing winds waiting for The power lines surged to life five days later, and Hurricane Ivan to visit in mid-September,I was then the damage reports came in. From Florida, Charlotte Porter wrote that one of the previous storms, prompted to re-read Bernard Romans's account of the Frances, had "absolutely trashed" Alachua County and 1772 hurricane that hit Mobile, Alabama. This she compared the damage to Bartram's description of naturally lead me to consider Bartram. Before the Mobile following the 1772 hurricane. Later, Carolyn power went out, I was able to dash off a quick note to the Bartram Trail electronic mail group and ask my Whitmer reported massive damage around her home in the Pensacola region. The reports of damage continued, fellow BTC members if they could recall any references including e-mails relating to downed trees and ruined to hurricanes by Bartram. From Philadelphia - so very far from the raging winds - came a reply from Nancy bridges on the Georgia portion of the Bartram trail. Fortunately, we all survived the ordeal and volunteers Hoffmann, now co-editing a new collection of Bar- have taken on the task of clearing the trail. I now can tram's manuscripts. She had on her desk a copy of the reflect on what a wonderful thing it is to have a circle APS Transactions, containing Bartram's 1773-1774 of friends scattered along Bartram's route, thinking report to Dr. Fothergill, with an account of the hurri- about the past and each other as the threatening winds cane as he approached Beresford Plantation. She noted roared down upon us. In such times, Bartram serves to that the hurricane was mentioned in Travels too. She reaffirm the close link we have to nature and to each sent her best wishes for dodging damage. other. Then came more replies from Alabama and Georgia, reminding me that the famous dogwood grove continued on page 2 Bartram encountered in Alabama may have resulted when a high canopy of longleaf pines was destroyed by Florida Studies Program, U. South Florida St. a hurricane or tornado leaving the understory of dog- Petersburg, to sponsor The Traveller,2004-05 woods undamaged and thriving. Naturalist John Hall mused that it would be interesting to identify blown- Thanks to the Florida Studies Program, U. down areas following Ivan and monitor them for resur- South Florida St. Petersburg, for sponsoring The rection of understory species. John urged me to hang Traveller for the 2004-05 academic year. This on tight, as did Brad Sanders of Georgia. Then, as arrangement, made possible through the those of us in hurricane country expect and dread - the generosity of co-directors Gary Mormino and power went out. Raymond Arsenault, allows the Bartram Trail And as the terrible dark beauty of Ivan's power Conference to expand still further its efforts to enveloped me, I sat on my front porch and watched my preserve the environmental and cultural legacy hickory tree lean with the wind to its death and I read of the American Southeast. Learn more about Bartram's account of his own hurricane experience: "I the Florida Studies Program (offering a Master beheld with astonishment and Terror the strength & of Liberal Arts) which brings together courses in fury of this Storm, the crash & wrenching of trees in history, economics, geography, political science, the Woods a little way off of me. Trees twisted offby anthropology, and literature at their web-site: the top & others split to the ground, vast splinters flying like javilen in the air, the tops of the tough www.stpt.usf.edulcoas!florida_studies! yielding hicory bent down into the water, but what is incredeble,I beheld the invinceble sturdy live Oak, almost inflexeble limbs, as thick as large Trees, twisted www.bartramtrail.corn 2 40s, setting back the mosquitoes. I encourage everyone to keep in touch between "On the happier side, the William Bartram marker newsletters and conferences. One way to do so is to stood the storms at the walkout ramp off 441. The visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bartramtraiUjoin Bartram Trail in the Chattahoochee National Forest in and join our Yahoo e-group and post messages to a Georgia, which is maintained by the Forest Service, is community of Bartram lovers. And don't forget to send in poor condition after Ivan. According to reports from news and articles to our newsletter editor for inclusion various hikers, the second footbridge, going north from in our next newsletter. And if you haven't renewed your Russell bridge on Hwy 28, was washed out. Shortly BTC membership, please do so now. And by all means, after that, there is a very large section of downfall, mark your calendar for our next conference, scheduled possibly caused by a tornado, that will require for Augusta in October 2005. We'll have all the details mechanical means to clear. South from Warwoman in the next issue of The Traveller. Dell, the footbridge was destroyed by falling tree and there are dangerous areas along the trail where passage Kathryn Holland Braund is almost impossible due to wash-out and fallen trees. BTe President For an updated condition report, contact the USDA Forest Service, Tallulah Ranger District. " Hurricane Damage on Bartram Trail Living with Franklinia The recent spate of hurricanes has dealt a blow to several Bartram sites, notably the Alachua Savanna The thought that Franklinia alatamaha would find a (today's Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park) and the permanent place in my life was unimaginable when I Georgia portion of the Bartram hiking traiL Hurricanes began researching the history of Mead Garden, located Frances and Jeanne were the culprits in Florida, while in urban Winter Park, Florida. None of us on the 45 Ivan was responsible for damage in Alabama and member Friends of Mead Garden (FMG) Board had Georgia. At both locations, the hiking trails sustained ever heard of the Franklin tree. And we had no idea that damage from tree falls and debris, and part of the trail it is prominent in the history of the Garden, a 55 acre at Paynes Prairie remains submerged. From Gaine- green space being rejuvenated by a partnership between sville, Charlotte Porter writes: the Friends and the City of Winter Park The swamp that became Mead Garden was dis- "William would weep. Hurricanes and severe covered and developed by two men connected with storms have caused great damage to trees, especially Rollins College, six blocks away. Jack Connery had the grand oaks, in the beautiful mesic hammock sur- been a student curator of Rollins Museum of Natural rounding Paynes Prairie. Many water oaks split. Other History and worked for Theodore Mead, a renowned large live oaks fell over as roots gave way in the wet hybridizer of orchids, amaryllis, hemerocallis, and ground; many cedar trees have lost branches and their fancy leaf caladiums. Connery had inherited this Jarge tops; pine trees are leaning and crashed. The town of collection and needed a place to house it. Dr. Edwin Cross Creek was hard hit and lost many old trees, par- Grover, professor of books, became Vice President of ticularly along the road. Water levels are high in the the College, and needed an outdoor laboratory where prairie basin, forcing wildlife to move across local students could do research in the natural world. roads, but I am told the fishing is good in nearby lakes. In 1937 the two men hacked their way into a I am seeing many roadkills, notably foxes, and tree morass of deep peat, spiky palmettos and twisted vines refuse pilled up on roadways in rural areas around the next to a well traveled street. They realized this swamp- prairie makes for limited visibility, especially at night. jungle could be developed into an urban oasis that Walkways everywhere are covered with sticks, acorns, would meet their needs. The imaginative explorers and other forest litter, and, as it is rather dry now, we persuaded generous owners to donate contiguous par- may get unwanted fires. As for water quality, unfor- cels of land. With WPA grants and private contri- tunately, the city of Gainesville has diverted untested butions' Mead Garden began to take shape. storm water into the Alachua Sink There is much To commemorate William Bartram's 200th standing flood water in nearby Marion County, and birthday, Rollins College held a celebration on Feb- waters passing through Orange Lake smell rather ripe, ruary 9, 1939. Rollins planted a four foot Franklin tree to say the least, but the higher lake level may lead to in Mead Garden rather than on the campus ... the the return of birds to rookeries abandoned in recent growing conditions seemed closer to those of south drought years. Right now, our temperatures are cold Georgia where John and William Bartram had dis- www.bartramtrail.com 3 Park, may have ended hopes of finding Mead Garden's covered the wild tree. Mead Garden became a prime Franklinia. However, Mead Garden is prepared. The attraction for local residents and tourists, and the lone Winter Park Garden Club, which sits in the center of Franklinia was promoted as a gorgeous flowering tree. Mead Garden and maintains close ties, ordered two From a recent picture of a bloom, FMG members saplings months ago.
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