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Join us at the Native American Bark Lodge Sleep Over and learn these Fire lessons on your own.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Education/Inidan Village Manager, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum. Fire in the tradition bark lodges of the Eastern woodland indian were necessary for warmth, light to work by and cooking. It is the hearth by which the people gathered to share the day's events and socialize. If the fire was not prepared correctly and smoked excessively no one would want to be near it or in the lodge. You would have to understand the details to making an inside fire work for you rather than against you.

Using the traditional bark lodges in the Indian village at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum we have learned a few of these necessary lessons about bark lodge fires.

I have heard that many MAPS kids have thought about moving to the wild wooded areas to live the WILD life... doing what they have learned in all the nature camps and MAPS Meets they have been attended.

As you know, your parents are funny about this kind of thing (the running away part) so I thought I'd send you a copy of a letter I sent a few years back to a couple of MAPS kids who want to do just that.

The names have been changed, but you can put yours in the Dear so-and-so block. But, I am now sharing my secret with you all.