Thursday, May 19, 2011 - Warren PA
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Shout Out, Red-tailed Hawk, Dugway Recreation Area, North Platte River, Sinclair WY, May 1, 2011
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Warren PA
Walmart Supercenter Store #3429, 2901 Market St, Warren, PA 16365 - (814) 723-2640
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband 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.