Category: Mohican

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

LOUDONVILLE — Thousands of wooded acres greet visitors to the Mohican region. Mohican State Park’s wild landscape offers truly stunning views from both land and water.

Clear Fork Gorge, Lyon’s Falls, and the Mohican State Scenic River are just a few of the must-sees for adventurers. Overnight accommodations include a modern full-service lodge, large family campground with pool, deluxe vacation cabins, and a primitive camping area with stream-side sites.

Nearby Pleasant Hill Lake, which is managed by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, offers boating with no horsepower limits. A portion of the lake is no-wake speed, enjoyed by paddlers and anglers alike.

HISTORY

The Mohican State Park area was once the hunting grounds of the Delaware Native Americans, whose more famous warriors included Janacake, Bill Montour, Thomas Lyon, and James Smith. Smith was the first white man to come to this area after he was captured by the Native Americans and later adopted into their tribe. Several Delaware villages were also located in the Mohican vicinity.

European settlers began arriving at the turn of the 19th century, but settlement did not increase until the Native Americans were driven from the area after the War of 1812. John Chapman, immortalized as Johnny Appleseed, frequented the region during the 1800s, caring for his apple tree nurseries.

His name and the date, carved into the wall of Lyons Falls, were an attraction for years. Unfortunately, the etchings have been worn away over time.

Prior to 1949, most of the area that comprises the present state park was part of Mohican State Forest. The forest lands were administered by the Ohio Division of Forestry. In 1949, when the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) was created, Mohican and several other state parks were developed from existing…

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The Plainfield-based Student Conservation Association (SCA), part of AmeriCorps and Massachusetts Service Alliance, has returned to the Cold River stretch of the Mohican-Mohawk hiking trail. A joint effort last November, with the Berkshire Natural Resources Council and the Manice Education Center, reopened the trail, which had been strewn with blowdowns. Now the task is to improve the treadway, including bog bridges.

The Cold River, which drains numerous ponds in Savoy, flows 12.6 miles until it joins the Deerfield River, just east of Mohawk Trail State Forest. Motorists heading east down Route 2 from the junction with South County Road in Drury, follow Manning Brook until it joins the Cold. Its valley includes many large and ancient trees.

The trail begins at a new parking area, just to the north of South County Road, off of Route 2 by Brown’s Garage. The trail makes a leisurely, then steeper descent to the banks of the Cold, for a 3-mile round trip. For some hikers it’s perverse to start out down and finish heading up, but variety is good.

This segment is in Florida State Forest, an entity that is generally included with Savoy Mountain State Forest on maps. From the trailhead, a brief walk leads to an intersection. For Wheeler Brook and Mohawk Trail State Forest, go straight, as the sign indicates. As yet there is no sign for your route. Turn right to cross Route 2 very carefully, follow the shoulder uphill a bit for an easier step over the guardrail at the white blazes. Cross a footbridge.

Cross another. SCA built these bridges 12 years ago as part of new trail construction. A sign gives you 1 1/2 miles to the Cold and 5 1/3 miles to Savoy Campground. SCA has smashed rock now to create stone chips to harden the surface of this…

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Singer Robbie Williams has revealed his new haircut online, with his wife joking that he’s starting to have a ‘hair life crisis’.

The Staffordshire-born singer and former Take That member has gone for a mohican, a style which he first tried rocking more than 20 years ago.

Robbie’s wife’ Ayda Field-Williams took to Instagram to share a video of her husband’s new haircut to fans.

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The 47-year-old singer was snapped laying on his bed as Ayda gave her followers a close up look at Robbie’s interesting new look.

The Rock DJ and Angels singer is no stranger to the mohican having sported the hairstyle at the start of his career.

“Robbie Williams, sporting a new look I see, talk me through it,” the mum-of-four is heard saying before Robbie admits: “I’m losing my hair. I’m thinning.

“So I thought I’d lean into it, rather than fighting it.’

Explaining further, the Take That star said: “The first step was just to do a number one all over, […] I thought, that looked okay

“So while you were out I thought I’d just do a mohican because I thought you’d say no.”

Ayda then joked that her other half looked like the cartoon character, Pepe Le Pew.

Williams last rocked a mohawk 20 years ago (Image: Ayda Field-Williams/Instagram)

She wrote alongside her post: “@robbiewilliams In a hair life crises … #newhaircut #lastofthemohicans AWxx”

But fans didn’t seem to mind it.

“He kinda suits it tho,” one said.

Another commented: “Lol, I kinda like it.”

“Anything suits you Rob, You’re just Robbie Anything goes,” a third gushed.

A fourth added: “New…

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‘I’m losing my hair, I’m thinning’: Robbie Williams shows off his new mohican – 23 years after he first modelled the hairstyle

By Ella Hodson For Mailonline

Published: 04:39 EDT, 27 July 2021 | Updated: 05:16 EDT, 27 July 2021

Robbie Williams showcased his new mohican, 23 years after her first got one in a new video on his wife’ Ayda Field’s Instagram on Monday. 

The singer, 47, who has never been one to shy away from daring hairstyles, opted for this throwback look as a way of ‘not fighting’ his thinning hair.  

In the video, he can be seen lying on his bed, looking up at his wife off camera who seemed shocked at his new look.  

New ‘do: Robbie Williams, 47, showcased his new mohican, 23 years after her first got one (pictured, right in 1998)  in a new video on his wife’s, Ayda Field Williams’, Instagram on Monday

She said, off camera, in the video: ‘Robbie Williams, sporting a new look I see, talk me through it.’

To which the former Take That member replied: ‘I’m losing my hair. I’m thinning. So I thought I’d lean into it, rather…

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Robbie Williams has shunned the idea of having a second hair transplant and has returned to a style he first adopted 23 years ago

He’s had a “thatch”, and has tried artificial hair powder.

But now Robbie Williams is having a “hair life crisis” he is steering himself away from a second hair transplant. Instead it’s become the last resort of the Mohican.

The former Take That star first opted for the single striped style back in 1998 when he was just 24 – and has revived the look behind wife Ayda Field’s back.

Which is fortunate, as she reckons he looks like Pepe Le Pew…

The 47-year-old explains: “I’m losing my hair, I’m thinning and I thought instead of fighting against it I should just lean into it.

“The first step was doing a number one all over and to see how that looked. I thought that was OK.

“Then I thought while Ayda was out, I’d just shave a Mohican. This is what has happened.”

Last year, he tried hair filling powder, but said he was considering going under the knife again.

Robbie had his first hair transplant in 2013, which he admits he didn’t really need.

“I’ve lived in LA for a long time and they say, ‘If you sit in a barber’s shop long enough you’ll get a hair cut,’” he said at the time.

“Well, if you live in Los Angeles long enough you’ll get some surgery.”

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LAKEVILLE — Farming looks easy with your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles away from a cornfield said President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and that same sentiment holds true today. But unlike the farmers in Eisenhower’s time, today’s farmers are able to use high-tech tools to help make their decision-making just a little bit easier.

That’s why Ashland Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) is hosting the fifth of its new Conservation Chats field day events on Precise Solutions in cooperation with Holmes SWCD. The event will take place August 25 at Fairview Farms, outside of Lakeville at 12970 Township Road 474.

“In-season prevision modeling is a great tool for farmers to accurately manage and measure their nutrient applications and input,” said Erica White, Ashland SWCD technician and Jerome Fork watershed coordinator. “These tools are not only making our farmers more profitable by becoming more efficient with their inputs, but they are also making a significant impact to improve our water quality.”

To help make that transition, Ashland SWCD has offered 100 percent cost-share to producers in the Mohican River watershed for the last two years in a partnership with Sunrise Cooperative, Land O’Lakes/Winfield United, Yara International, Ohio Farm Bureau and the Caring for Our Watersheds student competition.

Earlier this year, West Holmes High School sophomore Garrett Houin won first place in Ohio’s Caring for Our Watersheds student competition, and by becoming a state finalist was able to bring cost-share dollars from the program directly to the Mohican River watershed to help implement modeling tools.

He worked hand-in-hand with White and Ashland SWCD staff to develop his proposal. In his research, Houin discovered that nutrient runoff from farm fields and bacteria from failing septic systems and livestock manure are the biggest threats to water quality in the main stem of the Mohican River…

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A goal of two archaeological digs conducted this summer by the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians is to find evidence from the 1700s, when the tribe lived in a Christian community with white colonists. But the first of the digs in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, has turned up artifacts and other features that could be much older.

Beneath a 19th-century bell tower, archaeological teams measured, dug and sifted in a quest for the exact location of the community’s first meetinghouse, built in the 18th century.

“I think you can start to see it right in here,” said archaeologist Nathan Allison as he scraped some dirt away with his trowel. Allison also serves as the tribe’s historic preservation officer.

“Yeah, it looks like an edge right in there,” said Ann Morton, the archaeologist leading this dig.

Sifting through dirt, looking for artifacts at an archaeological dig in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (Nancy Eve Cohen/NEPM)

This might be a typical archaeological moment, full of uncertainty — and hope.

“It could be a builder’s trench for a larger building,” Morton said. “And the only larger building that we know about in this area is the meetinghouse.”

A builder’s trench is dug when a foundation is made.

This did not turn out to be the trench. But they did find it the next day — a straight sided, flat-bottomed trench, near where a survey shows the meetinghouse would have stood.

The 1739 meetinghouse was the place where tribal members and colonists worshipped, and where they governed the township together. The community was first known as “Indian Town,” and later Stockbridge.

Tribal Historic Preservation Manager Bonney Hartley said the meetinghouse is where sachems, or tribal leaders, advocated for her people.

“So many petitions, really eloquent letters and things… that…

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With no fanfare and few people realizing, an infamous chapter in Bay Area environmental history has closed. Or rather, sailed away.

The Cape Mohican, an 873-foot-long military cargo ship that was involved in one of the biggest oil spills in San Francisco Bay in the past half century, was towed from its longtime berth at the Port of Oakland and under the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday.

By Wednesday, it had reached Mexico, attached to a tug boat with a steel cable as thick around as a beer bottle and chugging along at 7 mph en route to the Panama Canal, then Beaumont, Texas, by Aug. 1, and probably not long after, to a final date with the shipyard in Brownsville to be broken down and recycled.

The hulking 50-year-old vessel, a gray barge carrier that stretches as long as the Transamerica Building laid on its side, saw service in the Persian Gulf War.

But its claim to fame — or infamy — occurred on Oct. 28, 1996, when a worker at a dry dock in San Francisco near Pier 70, just south of the present-day Giants’ ballpark, mistakenly opened a valve on the ship thinking he was releasing water. Instead, 96,000 gallons of heavy black bunker oil poured out. About 40,000 gallons of oil flowed into San Francisco Bay.

Windy weather and an early season rainstorm spread it quickly. The spill blackened miles of shoreline on Alcatraz and Angel Islands, drifted as far north as the Richmond San Rafael Bridge and washed up on beaches from Point Reyes National Seashore to Half Moon Bay.

“It was a horrible feeling to witness the pollution,” said Mary Jane Schramm, a volunteer at the time with the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. “You would step in an area on the…

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Police Report: Mohican Trail Garage Catches Fire While Family Out of Town. Car Thefts Continue … Lock Your Doors!

Wednesday, 14 July 2021 10:16 Last Updated: Wednesday, 14 July 2021 18:06 Published: Wednesday, 14 July 2021 10:16 Traci Dutton Ludwig Hits: 175

Fire in a garage at 2 Mohican TrailHouse fire: On July 10, a Mohican Trail house caught fire. Firefighters arrived and observed smoke pushing out from second floor eaves, with the main body of the fire appearing to be located in the garage. Police notified the homeowner who said he was out of town with his family, and no one was in the house. Firefighters used a hose line to attack the fire with water. They forced open the front door and found no one inside. They searched the house for extension and found a second-floor room above the garage to be affected by the fire. A second hose line was stretched for use fighting the fire in this area. Volunteer firefighters were dispatched for help. Greenville and Hartsdale fire departments also assisted until the fire was out. The fire investigator noted that the house was under construction, and the garage seemed to be the place where work materials were being stored. The cause of the fire could not be specifically determined. A contractor arrived on scene to board up the house during the homeowner’s absence.

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Maia Sheppard, the daughter of a Williams College professor, sifts a shovelful of dirt in search of artifacts in Stockbridge on July 6. The Mohican Tribal Historic Preservation Office is conducting archaeological digs at “Indiantown” — now known as Stockbridge — to try and locate the 1739 meetinghouse site and at the site of the ox roast that was held in the town at the end of the Revolutionary War. 

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STOCKBRIDGE — Volunteers in hiking boots and long pants dig holes marked by little orange flags among the 20th century war memorials on Main Street.

Bending over these rectangular holes, called “units,” archaeologists search the soil for evidence of the 1739 meetinghouse, an essential piece of Stockbridge’s history, which is neither publicly acknowledged in this field — aside from a small plaque on the chime tower — nor anywhere else in town.

“It’s been a longtime goal to document sites important to Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation and raise visibility of our history here, which has largely been erased in the town,” said Bonney Hartley, tribal historic preservation manager for the nation. “The town was founded for our tribe, but you don’t see that anywhere when you’re here.”

The archaeological excavation, which began Tuesday and continues this week, aims to prove the existence of the meetinghouse, and ultimately include it in the National Register of Historic Places. As of Thursday, Ann Morton, the primary investigator, said they the team had found promising, but not definitive, evidence of the meetinghouse. This evidence includes subtle soil discolorations that suggest a building’s foundations from the right time period — but not the meetinghouse itself — and wrought-iron nails.

Unlike most of the Tribal Historic Preservation Office’s projects, this one is mostly educational. It’s not to save…

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