As I write the second in my two-part update about wonderful developments in Portage Park District, I admit that during a recent tour of Kame Esker Bog Park in Brimfield Township, I wondered about Kame and Esker.

Christine Craycroft, executive director of Portage Park District, graciously explained during a recent foundation board of trustees event that the name refers to the remains of a glacial event during the last Ice Age when the glaciers moved south from Canada, bringing with them huge deposits of sand and gravel the glaciers had scraped off the surface of Canada.

“That is why Portage County is so rich in sand and gravel,” Craycroft said.

Kames, she said, are mounds of glacial sands and gravel deposits, and eskers are ridges of sand and gravel deposits formed as the glaciers melted

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