In the middle of January it's always fun to read new postings, so here's a current one. At Trent Valley Archives (TVA) earlier in the week, we received copies of Liz Evans' cool poster with the indigenous names of all the places around the Upper Peninsula and Eastport in particular. It has wonderful explanations of the terms. I know it took Liz quite a long time to do it, but it's lovely. I'll try to take a photo so you can see what I mean.
Along with Betty Beeby's poster on Eastport history, Liz's poster will find a place of honour on my wall. These will forever remind me of the wonderful hospitality show to me and Elwood in the middle of this past December.
I have also attached a photo of a Petosky stone that Liz gave me. We each received one. I took it to my Friends Meeting the other week, it was shown to the children who attended, and the comparison with the skin of a pineapple is remarkable. Since I taught high school mathematics from 1975-2000, I am always interested in patterns in nature. In fact that's where our understanding of math has come from - observing those patterns and replicating them. It seems our very beings are patterns, but we sometimes don't take the time to figures them out.
I hope to keep posting on this blog and encourage comments as and when you can.
Staying warm for the time being,
Ruth
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