Outdoor Survival Skills
The Ancient Ways of the Cherokee
and How We Can Use Them Today
 Mark Warren, owner of Medicine Bow Wilderness
 School in Dahlonega has been teaching the survival
 skills of the Cherokee for more than 45 years.
 
 Mark believes today's society can — and should —
 learn some valuable lessons and skills from the
 Cherokee people who inhabited the southeastern
 part of the United States hundreds of years before
 European explorers ever landed on its shores.
 
 He will be discussing how some of the most 
 common native plants and trees were used by the
 Cherokee for food, medicine, shelter and fire and   
 he will bring along a few live specimens of these 
 plants as well as some crafts. 
Mark has packed 40+ years of teaching and  knowledge about the Cherokee way of life into a four-volume series of books titled "The Secrets of the Forest," which he said he wrote with three purposes in mind: "To provide clear instructions in primitive survival skills for anyone wanting to better his/her self-sufficiency in the wilderness . . . by learning the old Indian ways of living comfortably in the forest; to offer parents, teachers, Scout leaders and outdoor educators a guide to engage their students in nature . . . at a time when our young ones so desperately need this connection, as does nature itself; [and] to win over a new generation of environmental advocates who will look after this world.
 
 
Sharon Forks Library
Tuesday, October 23
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
 
Post Road Library
Sunday, November 25
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
 
Sharon Forks Library
2820 Old Atlanta Road
Cumming, Georgia 30041
770-781-9840
http://www.forsythpl.org/