2a Hendy Woods State Park

Assignment 2a
Create a blog post with corresponding titles. BLOG POST TITLE EXAMPLE"2a Lake Tahoe", "2b MOLAA" "2c Manhattan Beach Volleyball."
Analyze your trip by "cutting and pasting" the info below into your blog post, then answer each one. For those of you new to blogging, feel free to change the text colors and format in your blog in the area where you paste your work. The icon looks like a small palette with a T on it. Just select the text you want, then choose a color. Feel free to play with the other tools in that area):
Contains a title using the format listed above .25 points
Contains the sources you used with links to these sources .25 points
Contains a brief paragraph how it connects to your study of humanities. 1 point
Contains the following "analytical elements":
Observation: What did you choose? What do you see or hear or feel or think of in the choice you made? What is the subject of the work? If you chose a 'thing' what is the work made of and what techniques (colors, lines, shapes, textures)does the creator use? Be specific in your description. If you chose a place, be specific in your description of what you see or hear. Talk to your reader as though they cannot see the item but somehow must draw a painting of what you see or hear. 1 point
Interpretation: What is your choice about? Give specific examples to support this statement in 2 sentences; do so in a way that teaches us something about your choice. Make Paulo Freire proud! .75 point
Judgment: What led you to your choice? What do you think or feel about this choice? Why do you feel this way? Support your thoughts with specific observations. .5 point
Questioning: What else would you like to know about this choice? When completing the question section, lead your audience into the question by stating a fact you do know, yet you still have the related question. This way, both your audience and you will have an educational experience. Example: I learned that John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath was based on his personal experience working with farm workers. I would like to know if the characters he used in that book are fictitious or are they people he met? .5 point
5. Using your classmates work from last week, tell us one thing you learned from 1 student. Is this one thing some common experience you share or some experience that is completely different than what you experienced? Is this one thing related to our class theoretical foundation and if so, how? Is that one thing related to historical or cultural context of this country or a different one? Link that persons blog to this entry (eg cut paste that blog entry here) . .5 point
SUBMIT YOUR BLOG post link in your LOGIN area:
Each link (eg 2a, 2b, 2c) must go in corresponding areas of our login, which means these are all different. Cut and paste the link each post gives you; you'll see this in your browser. (this helps students to go directly to your entry for this component instead of having the scroll around and look for this specific post within your growing blog. Notice how when you click on 2a for my blog post it has a different URL (fancy word for web address or web link) than my 1a blog post). .25 points
Each component is worth 5 percent of your total semester grade. This overall project 2 is worth 15% of your total semester grade.

1. Title: 2a Hendy Woods State Park

2. Links: http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=438
http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=25170

3. Brief Paragraph: Hendy woods state park was named after Joshua P. Hendy who in the late 1800's first claimed the beautiful woods as his own. He found something within the peace and quiet of these moss encrusted groves that made him vow that neither saw nor ax would ever lay bare the inner bark of these giants, and true to his word he was, for as long as the land was his the trees were never harmed.
This piece of history is majestic. How it connects me to the study of humanities is the interesting history to the story and what transpired after Joshua P. Hendy died. California was in need of lumber and after Joshua P. Hendy died the woody groves were sold. Down came the giant trees in the outlying areas and off to the mills they were hauled. Timber was cut and removed from all sides of the big groves, but never was an order given to attack the giants standing there. Hendy Woods was sold to the people of California in August of 1958, to become one of our finest state parks.

4a. Observation: The park features two virgin redwood groves; Big Hendy with a self-guided discovery trail and Little Hendy. The Navarro River runs the length of the park. Located in the middle of the Anderson Valley wine district, this park is warmer and less foggy than redwood parks along the coast. The park is well known for a fallen redwood stump that was home for a man known locally as the Hendy Woods Hermit. Location/Directions: The park is eight miles northwest of Boonville, a half-mile south of Highway 128 on Philo-Greenwood Road. The park is located on one of the scenic by-ways, the Greenwood Road, in southwestern Mendocino County just off State Highway 128. Although it is less than a three hour drive from the San Francisco Bay Area it is as though in another world. One passes from the hustle and bustle of a modern metropolitan center into a majestically silent primeval forest of Coast Redwood.

4b. Interpretation: My interpretation is that Hendy woods is a magical place. It serves as a place to explore grandiose nature which is guided by pathways and one of a kind trees. A famous attraction is one of the Hendy Hermit, in which an actual hut is still found and viewed today at the state park. This place is where I took my family for a vacation last summer and it was so outstanding that we will be revisiting this mystical place again and again.

4c. Judgement: I was led to this choice because I love nature and exploring new places. I am adventurous and love the outdoors. I have parents in their 60's and a son who is 7 years old and I am in my early 40's. I was looking for a place we could all vacation and be one with nature. Just as expected we all stayed busy for 5 days at this majestically natural habitat of trees and woods. I feel connected and at one with nature when I am at Hendy Woods. I feel like the air is good, the views are spectacular and the smell is invigorating. I fell this way because of the surrounding nature.

4d. Questioning: What I learned at Hendy Woods is that the trails are the most incredible attraction at Hendy Woods State Park. It's great to visit for a day trip or a quick overnight visit. No matter what, you too can experience this beautiful country.
What you can do is: Drive inland a bit from the forever-foggy Mendocino County Coast and you’ll find sunny meadows, a pastoral valley of apple orchards, vineyards and farm houses, plus tall redwoods that escaped the logger’s ax. Hendy Woods, a twenty mile drive from the coast, is warmer, and has an altogether different vibe than the other coastal redwood parks. The land now comprising the state park was purchased a century ago by foundry owner Joshua P. Hendy, who later sold his land to the Masonite Corporation; the corporation, in cooperation with the Save-the-Redwoods League, donated 405 acres to the state parks system in 1958. It is a must see so go out and it experience it and see for yourself.

5. Classmates work: I read Katy's blog on Yosemite. Our interests seemed common due to both of us researching and blogging about the beautiful sites and places to visit that are natural wonders. As Katy states about Yosemite, "It is a worldly phenomenon and a geological treasure, a place that many different cultures have come to visit this area, all seeing and understanding the same thing, nature's beauty". Both of our sites, Hendy Woods and Yosemite are natural wonders of the world that are both historical and majestic in nature.
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