Tag Archive for 'iroquois'

Playing Detective for the Oneida Stone

June 4th, 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber

I just got the book, Oneida Iroquois, Folklore, Myth, and History, by Anthony Wonderley, and it is amazing! I blogged about our journey to Oneida Castle to see the mysterious Skenandoah Boulder. I’ve decided to dig a little deeper about the Oneida Stone, apparently a huge stone that mysteriously moved to central New York State […]

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Photo Hunters: Shoes

May 24th, 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber

Today’s photo hunt had me floored for a while. Get it? Floored? YUK YUK YUK YUK!!
OK, well, I was mighty stumped. Had NO IDEA what to do. I’m not a “shoe” person, either. My husband had to drag me to a shoe store recently and forced me to buy sneakers, because I only had a […]

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New York’s Mohawk Valley

March 12th, 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber

We actually saw SUNSHINE yesterday (the Mohawk Valley of Upstate New York sees sunshine about 1/3 of the year). Almost all our surface snow had melted, although the big dirty clumps of snow remain. It was actually rather pleasant, despite the mud! Today, the temperatures are back down below freezing and misty snow is falling. […]

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