Memorial Teems with History Timucuan Village Focus of New Mural
Barker-Benfield, Simon, The Florida Times Union
Ed Watkins, a volunteer at the newly redesigned visitor center
at Fort Caroline National Memorial, is one of perhaps only a few
people in Jacksonville who knows how to make casina .
It was the caffeine-heavy "black drink" of the Timucuan Indians,
made from yaupon holly leaves.
To a recent visitor, the stuff smelled a little like hay, and
tasted awful.
"It can get pretty bitter, especially if you cook it down a
little too much," Watkins warns.
A new informational area on casina, including pictures of holly
leaves and a shell dipper used to drink it, is just one small
part of this …
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Article title: Memorial Teems with History Timucuan Village Focus of New Mural.
Contributors: Barker-Benfield, Simon - Author.
Newspaper title: The Florida Times Union.
Publication date: October 25, 1997.
Page number: 1.
© 2007 The Florida Times-Union.
COPYRIGHT 1997 Gale Group.
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