Site #2 is approximately 1/10 mile east of Site #1 on the north side of the Interpretive Trail. From Site #1, guests will pass by the Event Lawn, after which the trail will enter a wooded area that has been cleared of dense underbrush. Site # 2 is set within a small clearing in the wooded area, surrounded by an overhead canopy of mature live oaks that create a dappled shade effect that changes through the course of the day. Site #2 feels like a “room” within these trees, with the vertical oak trunks lending a sense of structural enclosure around the site.
Site #2 is roughly half-moon shaped, with 36’ of frontage on the north side of the trail and extending back into the trees approximately 26’ at the center of the arc. The arc tapers to about 15’ as it returns to the trail, providing an approximate area of 780sf. Visibility of this site would emerge suddenly as guests round a turn in the trail, lending a sense of surprise to the viewer. When approaching from the east, views of the site would be somewhat obscured by a cluster of trees before coming into clear view.
I had reasoned this out of in my mind: there was one of two things I had a right to Liberty or Death If I could not have one I would not have the other; For no man should take me alive.
Harriet Tubman
Go to work in the morn of a new creation…until you have…reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.
