This weekend will be our next-to-last public tour for the Spring season, so we hope to have a great turnout this weekend. The hike will be on Sunday, March 21st at 2:00 p.m. in the Frankfurt Drive Cul-de-sac. Bring your family, friends, and four-legged pals out with you and enjoy a great afternoon in the place that will be your future Red Mountain Park. I can’t wait to see you there!
For more details, please visit our Friends. http://www.friendsofredmountainpark.org/wp/park-tours/
We would like to thank Action Environmental for donating some of their time and attention toward the Mt. Olive cemetery this week. Jeff Newman captured a great photo of the team after they finished clearing a large portion of the land–their job was to get rid of the privet on the property, and what a great job they did.
So this week’s blog goes out to the folks at Action–thank you from Red Mountain Park!
Action Environmental Volunteers
Birmingham Southern. Miles. UAB. Lawson State. Samford. Montevallo.
I am impressed with the overwhelming opportunities this area provides through these institutions. I am excited about the relationships the park project will create with each of these institutions and some of these relationships have already taken their roots–for example, UAB with our oral history project. There are other departments within different schools that we are continuing to reach out to: history, athletics, digital community studies, technology, engineering….
I plan to make the most of these incredible local resources and to also offer back benefit for their purposes. It’s another great way to continue to build this community into the park.
The park staff has grown with the addition of a part time maintenance position. Jeff Newman has been hired to work on maintaining our park trails–he has done an incredible job creating the trails that allow for our monthly public tours. He’s had a cold past couple of days out on the property, but did seem to make the most of the weather in building a helper for cutting down some privet..(see photo)
Look for Jeff’s bio soon on the staff page!
the new RMP maintenance (snow)man
Paul Stokes came to pay us a visit all the way from Texarkana, Texas. He grew up in the Ishkooda mining camp and has incredible memories of his life as a Red Mountain camp kid. We were able to listen to his stories and pick his brain about life on the mountain. If was a fun-filled, educational weekend and we are grateful for his visit.
Since his visit last week, we have begun to make contact with more camp kids that Paul knew and look forward to the other stories that are soon to head our way.
Paul looks at the No. 13 entrance where his father sometimes worked.
We capture Paul's description of how the park looked back in its heyday.
Paul tells us the story of watching the skip cars fly from the slope up the the tipple at No. 13.
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