Several from Church Take Annual Spring Trek into Woods to See Wildflowers
One of the new annual traditions of the community is to visit the Old Cemetery and site of the original pre-1800 church in the early spring of March.
On a fairly warm Sunday afternoon this year, 14 people made the trip. They started by touring the old graveyard to pay their respects to the former members of the church and community and to show their children and grandchildren the graves of their ancestors from as many as nine generations ago.
They then wandered down the hill to the creek to look for the Trout Lilies or Dogtooth Violets that bloom along the wooded hillside and near the path along the creek. Of course, there was also time to play in the creek and to examine feathers, rocks, and other treasures hidden in the leaves or being washed by the creek.
After walking along the creek as far as where the spring where the grandparents in the crowd used to walk to get water for the little country school that they and their parents and grandparents before them attended and pausing at the old tree where school children from years before that had carved their initials, the crowd headed back up the hill and back to their 21st century lives.
