2017 Aug 26, Saturday, Humming Bird Tagging, Jesse Owens Park Danville, Alabama and Oakville Indian Museum

Each of us, for a bag of sugar, watched the catching and tagging of Hummingbirds.

A Tagged Hummingbird 

Tagging a Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are captured and fitted with a numbered band; if they are recaptured, their age can be determined.

When we left that morning, he had already tagged thirty Hummingbirds.

The tagging took place at the home of a Master Gardener, so we enjoyed a pleasant stroll through her many gardens. 

Our next stop was at the Farmers Market in Killen Park. 
There, we sampled watermelons, chocolate cake, sausage, strawberry jelly, and Mini tomatoes. 
We registered to win a fifty-dollar gift certificate.

It was getting close to dinner, so we stopped at Killen's Subway for lunch, where we both ordered 
a six-inch meatball sub-sandwich, chips, and Coke.

Next, we rode to the Jesse Owens Museum, cabin, and park in Cullman. 

Jesse Owens Statue

• James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history."

Jesse Owens Stats

Jessee Owens Timeline

Our next stop was the Oakville Indian Mount Museum. There, we saw thousands of Indian Arrowheads, clothing, hides, books, stuffed wolves, bears, & buffalo. 

Sequoyah 1776-1843
A mixed-blood Cherokee is the only known person in history to develop an alphabet or syllabary. Sequoyah's father was Nathaniel Gist. His mother, Wurich, was a sister to Cherokee Chief Doublehead, who controlled the Lawrence County area from 1790 to his death in 1806. As a young boy, Sequoyah, known as George Gist, moved with his mother to Wills Town in DeKalb County, Al. Sequoyah wrote the Cherokee Alphabet from 1809 to 1821. Sequoyah helped negotiate the 1816 Turkey Town Treaty, which gave up Cherokee claims to Lawrence County and led to the Cherokees' move to Arkansas in 1818. His need and curiosity for writing prompted a desire to help educate his people in the Cherokee writing system. Sequoyah died in Mexico in 1843.

Pottery 

Cherokee Dress 

Sequoyah 1776-1843

Pipes, Tools, and Arrowheads 

 My sister-in-law and I had a busy day: watching the tagging of hummingbirds, visiting the farmer's market, having lunch at the subway, and taking a trip to Cullman to visit Jesse Owens Park and Oakville Indian Museum.