Hard Times Come Again No More Traditional Cache
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Hard Times Come Again No More
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You are looking for a cammoed, sandwich-size Tupperware style container just outside of Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White Springs, FL. Admission is $4.00 per vehicle. $1 if you walk or bike in; open 8 a.m. to sunset.
Every year I spend several weeks at Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park as coordinator of their Elderhostel program. I’ve always loved the hiking and paddling in this area, but the history of the region and Stephen Foster were new to me when I started this gig. This cache is part of the Stephen Foster series…five caches in or near the park named for Stephen Foster songs.
This cache is hidden at the Seminole Indian area just outside the entrance to the park. The native Timucuan Indians considered the sulphur springs on the north bank of the Suwannee to be sacred, and the sick and infirm from all tribes were permitted to frequent the springs as a place of permanent truce. Later, the Seminole Indians who settled in the area shared the natives’ reverence for the spring.
The Seminoles were driven from the land and relocated west on the “Trail of Tears,” but many escaped the relocation and disappeared into the woods and Everglades in South Florida. Every year, though, they return to White Springs during the Florida Folk Festival in May to occupy their traditional land. They built and maintain the chickee structures you will see at this location.
“Hard Times Come Again No More” is my favorite Foster song. I thought it was appropriate to reflect the sad history of the treatment of the Seminole tribe, and the hope that hard times like those are in the past for these native people.
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