A FEW WEEKS AGO I VISITED JACK LONDON STATE PARK. IT WAS A RELATIVELY COOL DAY AND I BROUGHT MY BACKPACK SO I COULD HIKE TO THE UPPER LAKE WHERE LONDON USED TO SWIM AND ENTERTAIN HIS GUESTS, AS WELL AS TO THE WOLF HOUSE. I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THE PARK HAD A LIVING HISTORY DAY THAT DAY. I HADN'T BEEN TO THE PARK IN ABOUT 3 YEARS AND THEY HAD LONDON'S COTTAGE ALL FIXED UP WITH BEDS, DRESSERS, PICTURES, AND UTENSILS, AS WELL AS BOOKS AND HISTORIC TYPEWRITERS. IT IS VERY WELL FURNISHED AND THE INFORMATION IS EASY TO READ.
THEY HAD A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES GOING ON THERE THAT DAY. ONE MAN WAS GIVING KIDS AND ADULTS WAGON RIDES PULLED BY TWO LARGE HORSES. AND THEY HAD ONE MAN SHOEING A LARGE STALLION. A WELDER MAKING HORSESHOES, AND A COUPLE OF SMALL ENGINES THAT OPERATED PUMPS OF SOME SORT. THERE WAS A WOMAN SPINNING WOOL. OTHER PEOPLE HAD FOOD BOOTHS. AND ONE MAN WAS PLOWING THE FIELD WITH TWO HORSES AND AN OLD FASHIONED PLOW WHICH SEEMED TO WORK WELL. THERE WERE PROBABLY ABOUT ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE AT THE TIME I WAS THERE AND VERY FEW CAME TO THE WOLF HOUSE - MOST PEOPLE WERE OCCUPIED BY THE HISTORIC ACTIVITIES NEAR THE COTTAGE AND LARGE BARN.
I SWEATED A BIT HIKING UP TO THE LAKE AS WELL AS HIKING TO JACK LONDON'S WOLF HOUSE. IT WAS A GOOD DAY VIEWING THE VALLEY OF THE MOON AS THEIR WAS LITTLE TRAFFIC. RELATIVELY
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