Gracias por aver publicado nuestras tradiciones, estoy tan orgullosa de nuestras tradiciones es una vendicion q nuestros padres nos ensenaron y ahora nosotros podercelo ensenar a nuestros hijos, gracias. - Rocio medrano

Through the years of traveling Hwy 704 I've seen several folks gathering Watercress from the creek.

I cannot address the water quality issue except to say that Sinking Creek drains 4 or 5 square miles of Adair County's Largest Sinkhole Plain which contains several homes and businesses all of which are, hopefully, on septic systems. I would not be afraid to consume plants from the creek as long as they were processed with the correct amount of heat to kill any pathogens that might be harmful.

I suppose if we could see how much of the food we buy at the grocery was grown, processed and packaged we probably would consider our Sinkhole Plain and Sinking Creek fairly sterile ecosystems. - Billy Joe Fudge

When death impersonal has taken lives,
unbounded sorrow stops at self-set pale
and only what sad heart allows arrives
to beat upon sustaining comfort frail.

No foreordained concluding life event,
however young or old the lost may be,
can take away desire that love prevent
fulfillment of unstoppable decree.

With thanks remember doing all the good
that opportunity gave chance to do
and undertake to see whatever should
call forth glad generosity anew.

Fear not some waiting specter in the land
but cherish own redeeming near at hand.

-Robert Stone, 16 December 2012

Would the water quality be good enough that the watercress would be edible? --Charles Marshburn

What we give others
that they too can give away
keeps legacy live.