I frequent the Pennypack Park quite often where there’s a ton of natural woods and cool creeks to explore.

These places never fail to leave you thinking about natural history.
If transported back three hundred years ago, what could one see? A Native American? A colonist wondering around? Could wolves or mountain lions be found here? Did creek water shape a different path?

What if this natural environment extended not just a small ‘park’, but for miles in each direction? Would anyone come here?

A civilization begins here: How do they build shelter, could they collect rocks and construct buildings or is wood their only option? Would they be hunger-gatherers and how would/did they become agrarian?

I heard a civilization needs three things to develop: Free-time, the ability to tame animals, and good a environment for agriculture. Could one tame anything here and can anything be grown and eaten here?

With free-time, a person sees this ugly fungus growing on a dead tree and he or shes has the guts to try it.

I believe the fungi’s scientific name is Trametes versicolor, and it serves a medicinal purpose similar to aspirin.

Some neat grass ahead of the three