The first weekend event Clay asked me to attend, I thought, I'm going spend the weekend keeping track of two small children while "you bang on rocks"! Clay's response was, "no, there will be two other groups there, the Michigan Primitives and the Michigan Atlatl's". I replied, "Great! Rock bangers, Spear-Chuckers and Neanderthals. I'll bring plenty of books to keep me from absolute boredom". Before the event started, I saw people making baskets from a log and was hooked. We enjoyed weaving baskets, birch baskets, string making, blacksmithing, slings and plant identification and uses; the lost arts that we no longer "need" or appreciate in our modern society . Clay and I look back at the people we now call friends and family, most of the are the result of that first event that became the first first of many.
