657 Comments for The Enchanted Forest

thanks motts, great site you have here very stunning and surreal

The Tea Cups and Tea Pot (seen in the distance) have now been totally restored and are now at their new home at Clark's Elioak Farm.

Any decent lens cloth sold at a camera store fixes the problem well. If smearing occurs, I use a lens cleaning fluid I keep on me, it has come in handy a few times in these dusty and dirty places.

just wondering what type of cloth you would use to remove the water from the lens without smear?

Anyone interested in The Enchanted Forest...
There is going to be a spot done on Maryland Public Television, (MPT), on their show, "Art Works This Week". It will air, this Wed., Sept. 20th, 2006, @ 7:30pm.
It is a short segment about The E. F. and the pieces that have been moved over to Clark's Elioak Farm and restored.

I am pretty sure that this park was used in the movie Cry Baby .

I WAS RIGHT! :-O

The witches house in Hanzel and Greta!
Oh my God! Hold on to your kids everyone!

i like the angle on this one...

This looks more like Baba Jaga's house than anything candy and happy. :D

Sadly this tower has collapsed.
When it collaped, it took the lower, smaller turret at the bottom of this pic, with it. It collapsed sometime last year (2005) There are only about 3-4 towers left now.

You're right BEAVIS, he does look bad, but take heart, - I have heard that when they tried to get him out the first time, and couldn't, they had Mr. Mark Cline, (he does this type of thig for a living, and is excellent at it), go in and take measurements, because they thought they would have to have a replica made.
So, with the measurements, and all the pictures they can gather, they will be able to fix him back up! Clark's Elioak Farm is always looking for photos, especially for restoration. They will gladly scan anyones pics of The E. F. so they can restore these precious treasures!
(Motts has the link to their website at the intro. of this E.F. series of pics. You can contact them through that)
So glad you got to go BEAVIS!

IT WAS GREAT TO SEE ALL THE FIGURES AT CLARKS!! I MISSED THE MAIN CELEBRATION, THAT WAS ON SATURDAY. WILLIE THE WHALE IS IN BAD SHAPE THOUGH...

Donna~ I know what you mean!
The Enchanted Forest, when it was opened, was the first and for some the ONLY thing they'd ever get to see that was like Disneyland.
Hope you get the farm and see it soon!

If you have memories of this place, it is hard for alot of people to see the EF favorites displayed in ways that are new to us, and now, in a totally different location.
But, it is wonderful to see them again, then to see it's love for creativity all decay behind a locked gate.
A BIG thank you to Kimco, for allowing these treasures to be removed off their property. Being the third owners, they weren't the ones who brought the EF to this fate.
They've given permission to the farm to allow things to be removed, at the farm's expense.
So now a new storyteller, has picked up and re-opened a wonderful old book that many thought had been closed forever, locked up, put away, never to be seen or heard from again.
That book has been dusted off, opened again, and now new chapters are being told.
This is the kind of thing that jump starts a child's imagination, and makes them want to learn how to read or read even more. It did that for me, in 1967.
It also inspires those who see it.
To maybe try drawing, painting, make up stories of their very own, or try using a camera to show others how they view the world through their eyes.
It's not just for kids to enjoy, many adults enjoyed the Enchanted Forest's creativity too!
This new scenery, and it's original figures and houses may look alittle different from the classic book of stories told from the original Enchanted Forest, but these are stories and rhymes that should have never ended.
These are stories and rhymes that were and ARE meant to live on, and now they do, at Clark's Farm. : )

BEAVIS -
Did you get to go to the Birthday Celebration?
How was it?