We drove south through the mountains of West Virginia and on to North Carolina’s Piedmont region. Piedmont means foot of the mountains. The part of North Carolina we stayed in was a beautiful area, nice and green, and the weather was even warmer then it had been in Ohio. The visit to North Carolina was our first and I was excited about speaking and singing and drawing pictures and telling wildlife stories to the children there.
   At McLeansville Elementary the 400 students were so responsive I felt like I’d been there before.
   They were all good gobblers and helped me gobble in my “Talkin Turkey” song. The library had a beautiful powerpoint presentation using info and graphics from my web site. We had a great lunch and a wonderful day.
   The Canterbury school in Greensboro had made a study of owls for the walls and used Crinkleroot’s 25 more animals to do their own facts and pictures. We walked on their green lawns and were even given a tour of their pond trail. At Caterbury the students learned that if you study one animal, you learn about many others in the process.
   We visited the Piedmont Environmental Center on our day off and hiked the hilly woods where Deanna heard a hen turkey clucking. We also spent times at City Park watching the fishing boats.