By Lambe Lamis 
I bear in mind participating in on the hill aspect at the rear of my Grandparents home, and getting holes in the gullies that ended up dug by my father and his bothers, or quite possibly 1 of my older cousins. I even dug a couple of myself, far more like ditches covered with boards and filth for a hid-out.
There is a unusual enjoyment in having dirty, and lined with mud, not acquiring to stress about keeping thoroughly clean. A excellent pal of mine cherished to wear white overalls, which of class did not keep on being white incredibly long in the cave. There is also anything about crawling all over that looks enjoyable.
Getting to know a cave can be really a reward. When you are ready to discover your way, and even share with some others about wherever, and how you got to a distinctive put.
Inquire any individual who caves, why they go into caves, and they will struggle to come up with an answer. They may explain to you what they do in caves but not why they do it. Immediately after a long time of just checking out known caves, I started off exploring for more factors to enter the dim holes in the floor. Mapping sparked my fascination. We would discuss about mapping and developing laptop or computer programs to plot the caves as we rode again and forth to the caves in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. I slowly designed a program to plot and attract the cave passages, to start with on an Apple computer system we had at perform and then improved it utilizing Visual Simple on my personalized pc at dwelling. I even marketed copies at caving functions, but now I give it absent on my website web-site.
Caves were often utilised as social accumulating spots. Massive Dan Cave, also known as Deaton’s Cave, in Ga has a lengthy, and shady past. A prehistoric Turtle Sculpted from stone was explore in the 1950’s when anyone to start with tried to convert the cave into a recreation place. Just after a several dances they had a shooting and it was shut. The cave property was sold by the Deaton spouse and children.
Ray Landrum procured the cave in 1950 for $500. Landrum built a dance hall in the entrance of the cave in the late 1960’s. Bands performed on the concrete platform and square dances were being held on the ground underneath. Landrum made a creating at the cavern entrance out of emptied beer cans. He also made a memento shop at the cave and a home higher than the entrance. A fire burned the entrance down and Mr. Landrum moved absent. The spring was also enclosed by Mr. Landrum, and was offered in 1970 for $50,000.
Deaton’s Cave was no question employed as a shelter by early Indians in the region the concrete dance flooring need to include many treasures from the past. The site of the cave earlier mentioned the Euharlee, (Indian title for “she laughs as she operates”) river provided drinking water and fish. Deaton’s Cave is now also currently being referred to as Euharlee Creek Cave. Deaton’s cave was a single of my initial mapping jobs when I was studying how to develop cave maps.