Category: Mohican

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LOUDONVILLE – Flxible Owners International, a group that supports Flexible bus enthusiasts around the world, had a Flxible Bus Rally in Loudonville that included a bus rally on Saturday, part of a five-day event.  

Saturday’s bus parade included a disc jockey and announcer, public voting for bus awards, 50/50 raffle and a two-hour viewing of the Flxible buses in downtown Loudonville. The buses were parked in the middle of Main Street while the street was blocked off during this time.

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Flxible was founded by Hugo Young in Loudonville in 1912 as a manufacturer of motorcycle side cars, and closed in 1996. Bus manufacture started there in the 1920s. After the Flxible closure, the plant was used as a bus parts manufacturer and rehabilitation center by MCI Inc. until 2015.

Since 1990, the Flxible Bus Rally in Loudonville has usually taken place every two years. And since 1992, it was taken place at Mohican Adventures Campground.

The rally and parade were open to all Flxible bus conversions, RVs and campers. Owners weren’t required to allow the public to enter their buses during the time in downtown Loudonville on Saturday but were encouraged to let folks take a step inside their vehicles. And an announcer gave narratives of each bus in the parade.

A number of events besides the bus parade were scheduled for Flexible Owners International members during the six days of the event that started Wednesday and wrapped up Sunday, including a swap meet, panel discussion and live musical entertainment.

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GIANFRANCO CALLIGARICH’S Last Summer in the City is a slim masterpiece about a young man who moves to Rome, fails at journalism, fails at love, and ultimately fails at life. Leo Gazzara counts among literature’s great losers, an unforgettable forgettable, and Last Summer is one of those delicious minor works, enmeshed in a particular place and a particular time, that only rarely escape the confines of a national literature and onto the commercial lists of varsity American publishers. FSG’s new edition, beautifully translated by Howard Curtis, is just one of a number of new translations of Calligarich currently in the works. This new rediscovery, bigger than any before, marks the writer’s definitive entrance onto the stage of world literature.

Despite its initial success upon publication (at Natalia Ginzburg’s insistence) in 1973, Calligarich’s novel has long traveled under the radar as a cult classic, and it’s easy to see why. It’s the opposite of a winner — in fact, the book is about a total loser, a near-perfect example of that Italian type, the sfigato. Leo, in that uncomfortable territory around his 30th year, moves from his native Milan down to Rome. There he works for a “medical-literary” paper until its aristocratic patron goes bankrupt, and Leo’s meetings with the old count lose their remaining veneer of professionalism and become roving conversations about the frivolous things — horses and romance and social hijinks — that still delight the titled gentry. Leo is himself a self-styled aristocrat, though born into the wrong class: when asked where he would like to have been born, he replies, “In Vienna before the end of the empire.” He turns down a new job writing copy for a pharmaceutical trade paper because it sounds like too much work. He decides to wait for something else, “[l]ike an aristocrat…

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The canoe draws the eye at the center of the room, a long tapering organic shape ribbed like a whale, with the warm patina of old wood. Above it, the shape of a wave crosses a banner in a web of blue lines — like a three-dimensional digital model, or a weaving.

Past and future come together in Mu-he-con-ne-ok, the Mohican people, people of the waters that are never still, at the Berkshire Museum. Come in and stand quietly, and you will hear their stories in their own voices.

From the Stockbridge-Munsee Nation, Eunice Stick and Sheila Powless, Dorothy and Bruce Davids, Betty Putnam Scheil and Clarence Chicks talk about their experiences over the generations. They talk about young people leaving to work in the city, the cost of education and the resources it can bring — the challenges of learning forestry and preserving birch trees or running for office within the Tribal Council.

Photo by Kate Abbott

A wooden canoe rests at the center of Mu-he-con-ne-ok, the Mohican people, people of the waters that are never still, an exhibit curated by Heather Breugl, director of cultural affairs for the Stockbridge Munsee community of the Mohican nation, at the Berkshire Museum.

It’s powerful to hear them here, in their traditional homeland, said Heather Breugl,…

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Police have launched an appeal to try and trace a missing man from Muirkirk.

Murray Tanner, 48, was last seen at his home address in the Lapraik Avenue area around 11pm on Monday night.

There is growing concern for his welfare.

He is described as being 6ft 1in tall, well built, with fair blonde hair in a Mohican style.

At the time he went missing it is thought he was wearing a teal-coloured North Face jacket.

Police say that when he left his home address, Murray was driving a Silver Vauxhall Crosslander VRM with registration plates SD70 PUO.

Sergeant Mark Wason, of Cumnock police station, said: “Murray has now been missing for a couple of days and we are becoming increasingly concerned for his welfare and are keen to find him as soon as possible.

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“This is very out of character for him and I would urge anyone who may have seen either Murray or the silver Vauxhall Crosslander VRM, to contact us. Similarly, if Murray is reading this, let us know you are safe and well.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101, quoting 3850 of 24 August, 2021.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

PERRYSVILLE — The Mohican Fire Tower is 80-feet tall and was constructed in 1934.

At the time it was built, the Mohican Fire Tower had an average visibility of 10 miles in all directions. This allowed the towerman to keep an eye on approximately 200,000 acres of land.

Fire towers were once crucial to spotting forest fires.

Ohio Department of Natural Resources

Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, fire wardens and foresters used wildfire lookout towers to spot blazes on Ohio lands. Ohio’s fire towers were staffed by lookouts and equipped with binoculars, maps, a radio, telephone, and an alidade – a device used to pinpoint a wildfire location.

Aerial surveillance of wildfires by aircraft began in the 1940s, and Ohio’s fire towers were slowly phased out. The last tower was closed in 1978.

While monitoring from fire towers is a thing of the past, they remain a proud symbol of forest conservation and a monument to the people who worked to preserve our natural resources.

When weather conditions allow, visitors can climb the stairs of the tower at their own risk. From the top of the tower, the Mohican Fire Tower provides a magnificent 360-degree view of the surrounding forests and hills.

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the only residence in the US designed by ai weiwei becomes the base for the ‘forge project’, an initiative that supports indigenous leaders and communities working in the arts, food sovereignty, language revitalization, and more. originally called ‘tsai residence’, the house in upstate new york was realized by ai weiwei in collaboration with HHF architects in 2008, with a guest house addition in 2011. sold for $4.9 million earlier this year, the 3 bedroom dwelling is now known as ‘forge house’ and it will host a range of programs, serving as a forum for events and exhibitions, and as a workspace and home for four new forge project fellows.

image by alon koppel

forge house is situated in the hudson valley on unceded, traditional, and ancestral lands of an indigenous community called the muh-he-con-ne-ok. forge project encompasses four main elements: the fellowship program; a farming and ecological education program in partnership with sky high farms to combat food insecurity in the region; a lending collection of artworks from indigenous and hudson valley artists, which is on rotating view at forge project by appointment; and an alliance with the gochman family foundation, which provides direct monetary support to community organizations in the region.

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the ai weiwei-designed house welcomes four inaugural forge project fellows: architect and founder of studio:indigenous chris t cornelius (oneida), artist and filmmaker sky hopinka (ho-chunk nation/pechanga band of luiseño indians), ecologist and researcher jasmine neosh (menominee), and language preservation activist and mohican language teacher brock schreiber (stockbridge-munsee band of…

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Columbus police detectives have arrested suspects in four homicides in the city, as well as a suspect in a homicide in Westerville, in the last week. 

On Tuesday night, Coshocton County Sheriff’s Special Response Team deputies assisted Columbus police in arresting 19-year-old Talent Bradley, of Coshocton, at a home on the 700 block of Elm Street there. Bradley, who was taken into custody without incident, has been charged in connection to two separate homicides. 

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Detectives have accused Bradley of stabbing 63-year-old Randy Gwirtz to death inside Gwirtz’s home on the 1400 block of Fahlander Drive South, located in Columbus’ Woodward Park neighborhood off of Karl Road. Gwirtz was found on June 7 after relatives said they had not been able to get in touch with him for several days. 

Bradley is also accused of killing 62-year-old Robert Goodrich on May 27 inside Goodrich’s home on the 600 block of Mohican Way near Cherrington Elementary School in Westerville. 

Both men are believed to have been stabbed to death on May 26, according to Westerville police.

Court records show Bradley was identified by Columbus police homicide detectives who were able to trace a vehicle registered to Bradley that was seen on surveillance video near Goodrich’s home, as well as cellphone records that indicated Bradley had searched for Gwirtz’s address prior to his death.

Westerville police also said Bradley met both men through the dating app Grindr.

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Bradley is currently being held in the Coshocton County jail and will be extradited back to Franklin County.

Columbus homicide detectives have also arrested 27-year-old Brittany Weldon, of the Near East Side, in connection with the July 2 shooting death of 49-year-old Eric…

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STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. – Members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Community are conducting an archaeological dig on the banks of the Housatonic River, their ancestral home. 

What You Need To Know

• The Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Community is leading an archeology dig in Stockbridge

• They’re looking for the site of a 1783 ox roast organized by George Washington

•  Land seizures and forced removals caused the tribe to relocate to Wisconsin in the 1800s

• Projects like these allow current members to stay connected to their ancestral lands

“Our time in Stockbridge is a huge part of our history,” said tribal historic preservation manager, Bonney Hartley. “It’s part of our ancient history, but also in the 18th century, it was a colonial town, called ‘Indiantown’. It was founded specifically for our people, so direct ancestors of mine and everyone in our tribe today all come back to our time in Stockbridge.”

They’re looking for evidence of a 1783 ox roast, organized by George Washington to thank members of the tribe for their service in the Revolutionary War.

“We’re hoping to find evidence of possibly the ox roast feast itself,” said Hartley. “So for example, evidence of the cooking materials for the ox, which was described as like a 1,100-pound ox that was brought here, or where the spit or where the other kinds of cooking implements were.”

Monday was the first day of digging at the site, and they haven’t found anything yet. However, thanks to previous surveys, archaeologist Nathan Allison is pretty sure they’re going to make a discovery.

“We’ve identified a number of anomalies to ground-truth, or excavate, and see what we see under there,” said Allison. “So a number of those things were metallic objects like large iron objects, or burned features, which might…

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