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Midterm break 2022: Staycation ideas

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Post date March 7, 2022
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The 2022 midterm break at Capital is upon us; if you have not made any travel plans, there are still many ways you can spice up your week. If you are staying local for spring break, consider these close-to-home options to make your time off memorable.

If you are looking to take a road trip, Hocking Hills is only about an hour’s drive from Columbus. At Hocking Hills, you can go camping, rent out a cabin, or just take a day trip. The state park features waterfalls, hiking trails, rock formations and caves. It is an ideal place to enjoy nature or rent out a cabin with friends.

Take a road trip to Hocking Hills. Photo taken by Ava Boldizar.

Another similar road trip option is Mohican, which is a little over an hour’s drive from Columbus. Mohican is another option for those wanting to explore the outdoors, go hiking and/or rent a cabin.

If you are wanting to stick closer to home, consider visiting Franklin Park Conservatory right here in Columbus. There is lots to see, with the conservatory featuring exotic plants, art exhibits and a butterfly garden.

Visit the Franklin Park Conservatory. Photo taken by Ava Boldizar.

Otherworld is another must-see attraction in Columbus. Otherworld is an immersive art installation, with “over 40 scenes filled with large-scale art and mixed reality playgrounds,” according to their website. Visitors are free to explore and interact with the art, making Otherworld a one-of-a-kind experience.

Penn & Beech Candle Co., previously known as The Candle Lab, allows visitors to make their own candle. You browse through the available scents, pick your favorites, then an employee will help you create a scent…

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Book a Getaway in the Trees at the Mohicans

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Post date March 6, 2022
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Two new ODNR officers assigned to Mohican State Park

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Post date March 4, 2022
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Tribute to Sonny Ramadin Last of W.I. “Mohicans”

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Post date March 2, 2022
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SONNY RAMADIN in his later years.

by Renwick Rose

GLOWING TRIBUTES are flowing from all over the world to the great West Indies spin bowler of the epic era of the 1950s, Sonny Ramadin of Trinidad and Tobago who passed away over the weekend.

Sonny Ramadin(left) and Alfred Valentine

He was literally the last of the figurative Caribbean cricket “Mohicans”. All of the other members of the West Indies’ historic series win over England, in England in 1950 are already deceased.

That win, the West Indies’ first ever on English soil paved the way for the rise to the top for Caribbean cricket and it took doubtful umpiring decisions on two tours of Australia (1951/52 and 1960/61) and what became known as a “padathon” by two English batsmen in 1957 to delay the inevitable triumph of Caribbean cricket on a global stage.

Sonny Ramadin was an integral part of both the triumph and the rise to glory. A raw 20-year-old with only two first-class matches to his credit, he and fellow spinner, Alfred Valentine of Jamaica, a left-arm spinner to complement Ramadin’s right arm ‘mystery spin’, turning both ways, he joined his equally inexperienced spinning destroyer to engineer the complete humiliation of England, in its own backyard and give the West Indies a 3-1 series victory.

Most satisfying of all was the unforgettable defeat of the team of the colonial power at the acclaimed “headquarters of cricket”, the Lord’s cricket ground, in the second test, June 1950. It used to be said that England preferred to lose a battleship than a Test…

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U.S. Interior Survey of ‘Derogatory’ Site Names Lists One in Berkshires

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Post date February 26, 2022
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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The U.S. Board of Geographic Names released alternative names on Tuesday for more than 660 natural landmarks that still use the term “squaw,” considered an ethnic and misogynistic slur.

Of those, only six are in Massachusetts and one in Berkshire County.

But the name of Squaw Peak in the Monument Mountain Reservation, listed by Interior, was already changed last year by the Trustees of Reservations.

The Trustees worked with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohicans to rename the summit “Peeskawso Peak,” which they say means “virtuous woman” in the Mohican language, and the trail leading up to it Mohican Monument Trail, rather than Indian Monument Trail.

The name changes were announced in April 2021, along with changes to the narrative of the mountain that had focused on the famous picnic of authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville in 1850. The signage now includes more on the history of the indigenous people who had lived there first.

This altered framing was repeated throughout the Trustees’ 120 conservation and historic sites as part of an internal review process.

BGN offers four possible alternatives of naming for each site and the ones for Peeskawso Peak are bit — head scratching. Three are for bodies of water — Agawam Lake, Agawam Brook, and Konkapot Brook — and one for the mountain gap, Brookside Col. All four of the names already exist as geographic sites in Berkshire County, with the exception of Agawam Lake in New York State.

The reasoning, according to the declaration of U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, was to offer “candidate replacement names drawn from a list of nearby associative topographic features, the names…

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“Welcoming Seeds Home” Webinar

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Post date February 25, 2022
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As part of their education program, The Seed Savers Exchange recently hosted a webinar series about seed rematriation. The SSE is a non-profit organization that connects farmers. The SSE also collects, stores and regenerates heirloom seeds, distributes seeds via a catalog and website and educates gardeners.

Seed rematriation, as the SSE handout accompanying the series states, “addresses the desire for Indigenous communities to actively reclaim their ancestral seeds and traditions.”

This webinar series covers the efforts of SSE, funded through a grant by the North Central Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Partnership.

The first webinar was hosted by Shelley Buffalo, an enrolled member of the Meskwaki Tribe and 2021 Seasonal Seed Steward for SSE. Currently, Buffalo works for the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust through the Americorp VISTA Program.

Buffalo introduced the two featured partners, Dr. Rebecca Webster and Kellie Zahn.

Dr. Webster is an enrolled citizen of the Oneida Nation and an assistant professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Zahn is the agriculture agent at the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians Community, located in Bowler, WI.

Both the Oneida Nation and the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians originally lived in the modern New York area. However, early colonists from Europe pushed the indigenous peoples out of their ancestral lands and with the loss of their ancestral lands, the ancestral seeds were also lost, too.

Dr. Webster began her presentation with an introduction to her Oneida farmstead, Ukwakhwa: Tsinu Niyukwayay’thisl, which translates as “Our foods: Where we plant things.” Starting with a humble crop of white corn in 2015, Ukwakhwa expanded to more indigenous and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Nations) varieties including corn, beans, squash, tobacco and sunflowers.

In 2017, Dr. Webster and her partner, Steve, purchased ten acres within…

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Tribal leader laments climate, mascots, election changes

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Post date February 24, 2022
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of a northeastern Wisconsin tribe delivered a list of grievances to lawmakers during state tribes’ annual legislative address Tuesday, touching on election bills, climate change, discrimination and a lack of infrastructure.

Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, delivered the State of the Tribes speech to a joint legislative session in the state Assembly chambers.

She said democracy itself is at stake, saying the tribes have seen a force that would “shatter our nation rather than share it” and that effort very nearly succeeded. She didn’t elaborate, leaving it unclear if she was referring to former President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept that Joe Biden defeated him in 2020 or the Jan. 6 insurrection at the nation’s capital.

Holsey criticized Republican-authored bills moving through the state Senate that would tweak Wisconsin election laws, saying they would make voting harder and rob people of their voices.

She then pivoted to climate change, praising Democratic Gov. Tony Evers for establishing a task force to address the issue. The tribes are especially worried about plans to reroute an Enbridge oil pipeline around the Bad River Band of Lake Superior’s reservation, she said. A spill could pollute scores of tributaries leading to the Great Lakes, poisoning drinking water for millions of people, Holsey said.

She also called for keeping protections for wolves, calling the animal a brother. A federal judge this month restored protections for wolves across much of the continental United States.

Holsey went on to complain about the use of American Indian names and likenesses…

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Tribal leader laments climate, mascots, election changes

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Post date February 23, 2022
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MADISON, Wis. — The leader of a northeastern Wisconsin tribe delivered a list of grievances to lawmakers during state tribes’ annual legislative address Tuesday, touching on election bills, climate change, discrimination and a lack of infrastructure.

Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, delivered the State of the Tribes speech to a joint legislative session in the state Assembly chambers.

Holsey criticized Republican-authored bills moving through the state Senate that would tweak Wisconsin election laws, saying they would make voting harder and rob people of their voices.

She also called for keeping protections for wolves, calling the animal a brother. A federal judge this month restored protections for wolves across much of the continental United States.

Holsey went on to complain about the use of American Indian names and likenesses in sports, calling their use “dehumanizing and objectifying.”

“Imagine the outcry if there was a team called the Colonizers,” Holsey said.

She also called for expanded internet access throughout the state, saying she’s hopeful that the federal infrastructure bill…

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Get Panoramic Potomac Views From Castle-Like Bethesda Home

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Post date February 20, 2022
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BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE, MD — This home was aptly nicknamed the “R. A. Castle,” a nod to its stony exterior and silhouette. It was built in 1883 but updated in 2013, the listing agent said.

It has panoramic views of the Potomac River and a stone terrace with space for outdoor dining. Inside there’s a wood burning fireplace, a butler’s bar in the dining room, a breakfast area and a loft.

This home has been listed on Redfin for two days. See more photos of it below.

Address: 5417 Mohican Rd, Bethesda, MD
Price: $2495000
Square feet: 4074
Bedrooms: 5
Bathrooms: 4.5
Listing Description: With panoramic views of the Potomac River and over 4,000 square feet of living space, this stately 5 bedroom, 4 and 1/2 bath, solid-stone home is known throughout Bethesda as the “R. A. Charles Castle. ” The “castle” features a large open-plan main floor flooded with natural light. There is French door access to a large stone terrace for outdoor dining. Also on the main level is a 1/2 bath, large walk-in pantry, kitchen bar seating and a beautiful wood burning fireplace. On the main floor you will appreciate the multiple seating areas and the large dining room with butler’s bar. Don’t miss the breakfast area on the enclosed former porch which is a perfect spot for morning coffee as the sun rises over the river. On the second floor are three bedrooms and two full baths including a primary bedroom with en suite that features a large walk-in steam shower, separate tub and notable solid marble double sink. The third floor consists of a large bedroom/loft, also with en suite bath. The lower level is currently a capacious family room with additional storage, wine cellar, 5th bedroom and full bath. There is a fully…