CLARK'S ELIOAK FARM

10500 Clarksville Pike (Route 108) * Ellicott City * Maryland * 21042

410-730-4049     *     clarkselioakfarm@hotmail.com

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The PETTING FARM is open March 31 to November 4, 2012

About the Author

Martha Anne Clark, the owner of Clark's Elioak Farm, is delighted to have written her first children's book, "Trusty the Tractor."   Published in October 2010, the book was conceived as Martha was driving the little tractor while baling hay in the summer of 2009.  Trusty had left the petting farm for the day to help pull hay wagons full of hay to the barn.  You could just feel that he loved doing new jobs on the farm.  Martha wondered what would happen he was given the chance to do the most important job on the farm, pulling the hay baler.  Could he do it?  Then she thought what a nice children's book that would make. . . .

Martha comes from a long line of family members who have written interesting contributions to local history.  Her father, James Clark Jr. wrote a memoir,

"Jim Clark: Soldier, Farmer, Legislator," which tells his story of growing up in Howard County, serving in World War II and the Maryland State Legislature, and his life-long passion for farming and love of the land.

Her grandmother, Alda Hopkins Clark, wrote an entertaining account of her fox hunting experiences called "Hold Hard." 

Several generations earlier, her great-great-great grandmother, Martha Ellicott Tyson wrote several interesting histories, including a fascinating description of the visit of Little Turtle and several other Indian chiefs to her home in 1807 when she was twelve years old.  She also wrote "A Sketch of the Life of Benjamin Banneker" (who was a friend of her father, George Ellicott), and a brief account of

"The Settlement of Ellicott's Mills."  We'll have to see what comes next!!