when you open your hand, they are filled with good things...
Thursday, June 14, 2007
You'll never guess....
what I found at http://www.savantartist.com/
We'll never forget your George... thanks for making the trip memorable and sharing your art with us...
We'll never forget your George... thanks for making the trip memorable and sharing your art with us...
Monday, June 11, 2007
Girl Scout Jamboree Awards
Most likely to mistake herself for a bear - Claire Hardin
Most likely to evangelize the Appalachian trail - Diane McAliley
Most creative acorn gathering technique - Susan Dennis
Most likely to score a record deal while hiking the AT - Diane McAliley
Most likely to play in Bluff Mountain Music Fest - Natalie Smith
Weaponless bear hunter/next Brad Pitt in legends of the fall - Claire Hardin
Best Nude Bodyroll - Melissa Walker
Most likely to pole dance at the campsite - Tina
Most likely to calculate the exact date of your death - George
Least likely to follow suit in WOAC initiation - Claire, Katie B, Melissa, Kate, Natalie and Diane
Most likely to get arrested - Katie Bartlett
Best Prowler - Natalie Smith
Most likely to jump off of a cliff - Kate McIntosh, Claire Hardin, Susan Dennis, Katie Bartlett
Most like to get runover by a truck - Natalie Smith
Most likely to get sun-scorched & Most likely to go the distance - Tarles
Most likely to mistake herself for a bear - Claire Hardin
Resident Mountaineering Culinary Artist - Kate Mc
Most likely to vanish into the wild - Katie B
Most outdoorsy/Most likely to honeymoon on the AT/Most likely to appear on the next cover of National Geographic - Natalie Smith
Most likely to forego Mr. Right for Mr. Ed - Diane Mc
Best Mountain Hair - Melissa Walker
Most likely to evangelize the Appalachian trail - Diane McAliley
Most creative acorn gathering technique - Susan Dennis
Most likely to score a record deal while hiking the AT - Diane McAliley
Most likely to play in Bluff Mountain Music Fest - Natalie Smith
Weaponless bear hunter/next Brad Pitt in legends of the fall - Claire Hardin
Best Nude Bodyroll - Melissa Walker
Most likely to pole dance at the campsite - Tina
Most likely to calculate the exact date of your death - George
Least likely to follow suit in WOAC initiation - Claire, Katie B, Melissa, Kate, Natalie and Diane
Most likely to get arrested - Katie Bartlett
Best Prowler - Natalie Smith
Most likely to jump off of a cliff - Kate McIntosh, Claire Hardin, Susan Dennis, Katie Bartlett
Most like to get runover by a truck - Natalie Smith
Most likely to get sun-scorched & Most likely to go the distance - Tarles
Most likely to mistake herself for a bear - Claire Hardin
Resident Mountaineering Culinary Artist - Kate Mc
Most likely to vanish into the wild - Katie B
Most outdoorsy/Most likely to honeymoon on the AT/Most likely to appear on the next cover of National Geographic - Natalie Smith
Most likely to forego Mr. Right for Mr. Ed - Diane Mc
Best Mountain Hair - Melissa Walker
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Coming Soon...
Hey all you WOAC NUTS out there! What a great trip to Max Patch! We have so many photos, quotes, and awards to share. Keep checking for updates. Also, feel free to publish posts and/or comment on the WOAC blog.
Psalm 104:28 "HE opens HIS hands and satisfies us with good things."
Psalm 104:28 "HE opens HIS hands and satisfies us with good things."
Friday, June 1, 2007
max patch bald
Here are some links for our upcoming trip:
http://www.pbase.com/waterfallrich/max_patch
http://www.localhikes.com/Hikes/at_davenport_gap_0000.asp
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g60742-c5256/Asheville:North-Carolina:The.Circle.Route.To.Max.Patch.Bald.html
http://www.pbase.com/waterfallrich/max_patch
http://www.localhikes.com/Hikes/at_davenport_gap_0000.asp
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g60742-c5256/Asheville:North-Carolina:The.Circle.Route.To.Max.Patch.Bald.html
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Niki, do you think she is Cherokee?
Civil War nurse? Liason between the white man and the Cherokee? Bluegrass music pioneeress? Tennessee's first female governor passing legislation offering dental care to hillbillies and hiawathas? Inventor of the Rubik's cube? (woops, that's a Hungarian, never mind), Corn-husking craftswoman? The Eudora Welty of Cherokee literature? The MLK of the Cherokee nation? Why yes, Niki, she was a Cherokee, and a peace-loving one. Don't let Five-Killer throw you off.
Nancy Ward, indian woman and inspiration to WOAC charter members
Nanye-hi ("One Who Goes About"), known in English as Nancy Ward (c. 1738–1822 or 1824) was a ghighua, or "beloved woman" of the Cherokee nation, which meant that she was allowed to sit in councils and to make decisions, along with the other Beloved Women, on pardons. She believed in peaceful coexistence with white people.
Beloved Woman
Ward was born in the Cherokee town of Chota, a member of the Wolf Clan. Her mother, whose actual name is not known, has been called Tame Doe in novels. Her father was probably part Leni Lenape. Her first husband was the Cherokee man Kingfisher. Nanye-hi and Kingfisher fought side by side at the Battle of Taliwa against the Creeks in 1755. When he was killed, she took up his rifle and led the Cherokee to victory. This was the action which, at the age of 18, gave her the title of Ghighua.
Nancy Ward first married Kingfisher, who was killed in Battle with the Creeks. They had two children Catherine and Fivekiller. Nancy married second Bryant Ward and their child was Elizabeth Ward. Nancy Ward is buried in Benton, Polk County TN beside her son Fivekiller. See Emmett Star's book, History and Legends of the Cherokee People for a complete listing of Nancy's descendants.
[edit] Changes to Cherokee society
As a Ghighua, Nanye-hi had the power to spare captives. In 1780, following a Cherokee attack on a white settlement on the Watauga River, she used that power to spare a Mrs. William (Lydia Russell) Bean, whom she took into her house and nursed back to health from injuries suffered in the battle. Mrs. Bean taught Nanye-hi how to weave, revolutionizing the Cherokee garments, which at the time were a combination of hides and cloth bought from traders. But this weaving revolution also changed the roles of women in the Cherokee society, as they took on the weaving and left men to do the planting, which had traditionally been a woman's job.
Mrs. Bean also rescued two of her dairy cows from the settlement, and brought them to Nanye-hi. Nanye-hi learned to raise the cattle and to eat dairy products, which would sustain the Cherokee when hunting was bad.
The combination of weaving and raising of animals turned the Cherokee from a communal agricultural society into a society very similar to that of their European-American neighbors, with family plots and the need for ever-more labor. Thus the Cherokee began buying and selling slaves. Nanye-hi was the first Cherokee to own black slaves.
Around the same time Sequoyah introduced the first written language for the tribe. A complete Bible was first printed in the 1830's, hence the Cherokee were considered one of the 'Five Civilized Tribes'.
[edit] Later life
Nanye-hi objected to the sale of Cherokee lands to whites, but her objections were largely ignored. In 1808 and again in 1817, the Women's Council came out in opposition to the sale of more and more land.
Nanye-hi became a sort of ambassador between the Cherokee and the whites, learning the art of diplomacy from her maternal uncle, the influential chief Attakullakulla ("Little Carpenter"). In 1781, when the Cherokee met with an American delegation led by John Sevier to discuss American settlements along the Little Pigeon River, Nanye-hi expressed surprise that there were no women negotiators among the Americans. Sevier was equally appalled that such important work should be given to a woman. Nanye-hi told him, "You know that women are always looked upon as nothing; but we are your mothers; you are our sons. Our cry is all for peace; let it continue. This peace must last forever. Let your women's son's be ours; our sons be yours. Let your women hear our words." An American observer said that her speech was very moving.
It was some time during this era that Americans began calling her Nancy. She married a trader named Bryant Ward, and became known as Nancy Ward. When the area around Chota was ceded to American settlers, she opened an inn on the Womankiller Ford of the Ocoee River, in eastern Tennessee.
[edit] Death, burial and remembrance
According to her son, Fivekiller, Nancy was buried in her home town of Chota, but there is some evidence that she is actually buried in Benton, Tennessee. There is a marker in Benton which marks the site of her supposed burial. Polk County, Tennessee, where Benton is located, is trying to raise money to create a Nancy Ward Museum. The Polk County Historical and Genealogical Society currently maintains a Nancy Ward Room in their genealogy library until such a time as the museum is created.
A Tennessee chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is named for her. She is the last woman to receive the title of Beloved Woman until the late 20th century.
A statue of Nancy Ward, carved by James Abraham Walker, stood in a cemetery in Grainger County, Tennessee for about 70 years. [1] It was stolen in 1983. In January 2006, the missing statue resurfaced as a significant work of American folk art when it was exhibited at the American Antiques Show held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. [2] The statue is currently in the possession of an antiques dealer who resides near Augusta, Maine. Efforts to return the statue to Tennessee are currently ongoing. It is widely believed that the sculptor had originally intended the carving to be placed at Nancy Ward's gravesite.
The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, Tennessee holds an annual Nancy Ward Cherokee Heritage Days celebration in her honor.
Nancy Ward is not only remembered as an important figure to the Cherokee people but is also considered an early pioneer for women in American politics as she advocated for a woman's voice during a turbulent period in her tribe's history.
Beloved Woman
Ward was born in the Cherokee town of Chota, a member of the Wolf Clan. Her mother, whose actual name is not known, has been called Tame Doe in novels. Her father was probably part Leni Lenape. Her first husband was the Cherokee man Kingfisher. Nanye-hi and Kingfisher fought side by side at the Battle of Taliwa against the Creeks in 1755. When he was killed, she took up his rifle and led the Cherokee to victory. This was the action which, at the age of 18, gave her the title of Ghighua.
Nancy Ward first married Kingfisher, who was killed in Battle with the Creeks. They had two children Catherine and Fivekiller. Nancy married second Bryant Ward and their child was Elizabeth Ward. Nancy Ward is buried in Benton, Polk County TN beside her son Fivekiller. See Emmett Star's book, History and Legends of the Cherokee People for a complete listing of Nancy's descendants.
[edit] Changes to Cherokee society
As a Ghighua, Nanye-hi had the power to spare captives. In 1780, following a Cherokee attack on a white settlement on the Watauga River, she used that power to spare a Mrs. William (Lydia Russell) Bean, whom she took into her house and nursed back to health from injuries suffered in the battle. Mrs. Bean taught Nanye-hi how to weave, revolutionizing the Cherokee garments, which at the time were a combination of hides and cloth bought from traders. But this weaving revolution also changed the roles of women in the Cherokee society, as they took on the weaving and left men to do the planting, which had traditionally been a woman's job.
Mrs. Bean also rescued two of her dairy cows from the settlement, and brought them to Nanye-hi. Nanye-hi learned to raise the cattle and to eat dairy products, which would sustain the Cherokee when hunting was bad.
The combination of weaving and raising of animals turned the Cherokee from a communal agricultural society into a society very similar to that of their European-American neighbors, with family plots and the need for ever-more labor. Thus the Cherokee began buying and selling slaves. Nanye-hi was the first Cherokee to own black slaves.
Around the same time Sequoyah introduced the first written language for the tribe. A complete Bible was first printed in the 1830's, hence the Cherokee were considered one of the 'Five Civilized Tribes'.
[edit] Later life
Nanye-hi objected to the sale of Cherokee lands to whites, but her objections were largely ignored. In 1808 and again in 1817, the Women's Council came out in opposition to the sale of more and more land.
Nanye-hi became a sort of ambassador between the Cherokee and the whites, learning the art of diplomacy from her maternal uncle, the influential chief Attakullakulla ("Little Carpenter"). In 1781, when the Cherokee met with an American delegation led by John Sevier to discuss American settlements along the Little Pigeon River, Nanye-hi expressed surprise that there were no women negotiators among the Americans. Sevier was equally appalled that such important work should be given to a woman. Nanye-hi told him, "You know that women are always looked upon as nothing; but we are your mothers; you are our sons. Our cry is all for peace; let it continue. This peace must last forever. Let your women's son's be ours; our sons be yours. Let your women hear our words." An American observer said that her speech was very moving.
It was some time during this era that Americans began calling her Nancy. She married a trader named Bryant Ward, and became known as Nancy Ward. When the area around Chota was ceded to American settlers, she opened an inn on the Womankiller Ford of the Ocoee River, in eastern Tennessee.
[edit] Death, burial and remembrance
According to her son, Fivekiller, Nancy was buried in her home town of Chota, but there is some evidence that she is actually buried in Benton, Tennessee. There is a marker in Benton which marks the site of her supposed burial. Polk County, Tennessee, where Benton is located, is trying to raise money to create a Nancy Ward Museum. The Polk County Historical and Genealogical Society currently maintains a Nancy Ward Room in their genealogy library until such a time as the museum is created.
A Tennessee chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is named for her. She is the last woman to receive the title of Beloved Woman until the late 20th century.
A statue of Nancy Ward, carved by James Abraham Walker, stood in a cemetery in Grainger County, Tennessee for about 70 years. [1] It was stolen in 1983. In January 2006, the missing statue resurfaced as a significant work of American folk art when it was exhibited at the American Antiques Show held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. [2] The statue is currently in the possession of an antiques dealer who resides near Augusta, Maine. Efforts to return the statue to Tennessee are currently ongoing. It is widely believed that the sculptor had originally intended the carving to be placed at Nancy Ward's gravesite.
![[1]](http://members.tripod.com/~SmithDRay/NancyWardStatue.jpg){kind=link}
The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, Tennessee holds an annual Nancy Ward Cherokee Heritage Days celebration in her honor.
Nancy Ward is not only remembered as an important figure to the Cherokee people but is also considered an early pioneer for women in American politics as she advocated for a woman's voice during a turbulent period in her tribe's history.
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