West Virginia Training Weekend
Watoga State Park • April 2008
The next weekend training program in beautiful West Virginia will be held Spring 2008. More details will be available in January 2008.
Curious about what the other training programs were like? Wonder no more; take a look at these slideshows—
And, this is our one-day mini-camp held on the Fourth of July weekend:
Watoga State Park Information
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• Watoga State Park is the largest state park in West Virginia at 10,100 acres.
• Native Americans gave the name “Watoga,” or “the river of islands,” to the Greenbrier River area because the river’s wide, shallow nature causes many sandbars and islands to be formed. The river forms several miles of the park’s boundary.
• White-tailed deer are the most commonly seen animals with racoon, wild turkey, beaver, grouse, and red and grey fox seen on occasion (not by us). We have yet to record a sighting of black bear on our visits.
• The men of the Watoga and Seebert camps of the Civilian Conservation Corps began work on the park in 1933.
• The park opened in July 1937.
Go to: Watoga State Park
Go to: West Virginia CCC History
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Pocohantas County Historical Information
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“All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973, American Novelist, Nobel Prize winner 1938)
Pearl Buck's birthplace is near the entrance to Watoga State Park. She is the author of The Good Earth and spent half her life in China and half her life in the U.S.
What's so bad about 'The Good Earth'? (literary criticism)
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Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park is the site of the last significant civil war battle in West Virginia on November 6-7, 1863. Brigadier General William W. Averell led his Union troops against a smaller force of Confederate troops under the command of Brigadier General John Echols. The intent was to disrupt the Virginia-Tennessee Railroad at Salem, Virginia.
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Kicking Paddles in the Fresh Air
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Mid-Morning Training
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Kicking Up The Hill
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Poomse Practice
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Early morning training as the sun rises
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Former President Erin Bingham
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Training in Mid-Morning
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Master Wright: jump back kick
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Our cabin: all the comforts of home
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