Update 2023-12-19:
Videos: Food at Griffis Fish Camp on the Suwannee River with Seminole Pumpkin 2023-12-09
Naturalist C.B. Adams spoke at
Campfire Cooking at Griffis Fish Camp and Suwannee River paddle.
He brought bring props and artifacts, including a Seminole pumpkin and a flintlock musket.
This was Friday evening, December 8, 2023, before we
paddled from Stephen C. Foster State Park down the Suwannee River through the Sill back to Griffis Fish Camp
on Saturday.
C.B. Adams speaks around the campfire at Griffis Fish Camp 2023-12-08
He told many stories, such as about a man and a bear,
about a woman fighting a lion off her child,
and about the Seminole pumpkins that the Native Americans
used to feed themselves while hiding out in the Okefenokee Swamp.
He brought such a pumpkin, which he says he saw in pictures somebody took
after a WWALS Banks Lake Full Moon paddle.
For what happened to this pumpkin after Chris gave it to Shirley Kokidko, stay tuned.
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