There are a lot of jewels buried in the acreage that is known as Watkinsville Woods. Council members Mike Huff and Brian Brodrick did their dad gum best to transform this jewel Saturday morning with help from Cub Scouts, Boy Scout, pack leaders and many more people from the professional world like Walt Cook of Cook's Trail or Gary Grider of Athens have all put in considerable hours long before this second volunteer clearing of the park. The history of the area remains subject of much speculation as a both a religious area and a place of washing clothes with earthen dams to bolster the outdoor laundry facilities. There are still bed frames and heater boxes and other debris in the back yards of some residences connected to the park, but lots of barbed wire were yanked out of the ground this time. The tools employed for this adventure in man and woman power were amazing unto themselves, and borrowed from the bike trail making group SORBA, which has some irony since ...
