Friday, May 18, 2012 - Mansfield OH
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Full Moon Rising, Caballo Lake State Park, NM, May 5, 2012
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Mansfield OH
Walmart Supercenter Store #5471, 2485 Possum Run Rd, Mansfield, OH 44903 - (419) 756-2850
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO 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.