Big Bone Lick

Free your linguistics and free your mind!  The band “Big Bone Lick” takes its name from an ancient mammoth burial site in Kentucky — Big Bone Lick State Park.  Here you find mammoth bones buried in concentric circles.  This supports the fact that Indigenous peoples have been thriving in North America for tens of thousands of years, if not more.  The band’s hope is to raise consciousness about the survival of native cultures, cultivating respect and preservation, all while rocking out!

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Wim and Hanlie are two “very ordinary South Africans” who felt obliged to go traveling “so that we would have something to talk about.”  They wrote in their blog that they are currently camped at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky “and as I’m writing this it is storming like you can’t believe.  The new tent is holding out well, the lightning is making almost permanent light outside, the wind is blowing bubbles to all sides of the tent and the rain is pouring down like there’s no tomorrow.  We heard all our (unwashed) dishes being blown from the table outside but they’ll have to wait for the morning.  I wonder if the bikes have been blown over yet.”

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Jane’s Saddlebag in Northern Kentucky is hosting a day camp for children this summer.

Nancy Jordan Blackmore, author of the popular children’s book The Story of Big Bone Lick, will be “Grandma” for the week as your child takes a step back in time and learns to appreciate life in a natural farm setting.

Children will enjoy hands-on experience with horses, goats, cow, miniature donkey, llamas, and other farm animals.  Plus they will learn the fascinating history of the giant ice age animals who once called this area home, tales of the Indian tribes who occupied Northern Kentucky, and so much more.

Each child will also receive his or her very own autographed copy of The Story of Big Bone Lick to take home as a memento of this treasured childhood experience.  Each day will be filled with a life-learning experience, a calming nature to be secure and safe around animals, and incredible new adventures. 

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