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Irishgirl
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I live in Reedsburg, home of the "Beavers" football team and the High School mascot...we get to shout "go beavers". We are known as the "beavers" and we do get some snickers from time to time.
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Monadnock Guide
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Posted - August 25 2009 : 07:30:55 AM
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| I certainly hope you have a bumper sticker with "Go Beavers" ... ;) |
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Wilderness Woman
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Posted - August 25 2009 : 12:38:42 PM
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OK. I'm sorry, Mary, but I just gotta do it. I have a "Beaver" story to tell. I can't hold off any longer. [WW chuckles with glee in anticipation.]
As many of you know, I am from the state of Oregon. I lived in Salem, the capitol city, as a young adult. Near to Salem is the lovely little town of Corvallis, which is the home to Oregon State University. Nice college town. The mascot of OSU is... you guessed it... the Beaver. It is also their team name. They are the Oregon State Beavers.
One day, my first husband and I had gone over to Corvallis for some long-forgotten reason. We walked into a small grocery/convenience store. While there, I walked over to the magazine racks and began to browse. Knowing full well I was in the home town of the Oregon State Beavers, I spotted a magazine that was quite simply titled, "Beavers." I reached down and picked it up. I don't recall what was on the cover, but it certainly did NOT prepare me for what met my eyes when I opened it up. It was most definitely not about the football team, nor was it about the delightful creatures with the big, flat tail and the two big front teeth. (OK, guys... don't even think about saying it!)
With a very red face, I put the magazine back very quickly. |
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Monadnock Guide
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Posted - August 25 2009 : 1:14:34 PM
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| Gawd, - my typing finger is shaking, ... where I could take that! ;) |
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Wilderness Woman
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Posted - August 25 2009 : 2:08:37 PM
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Hey!! You control that finger!!  |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - August 25 2009 : 3:43:17 PM
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| I imagine that General Webb could have appreciated that magazine. |
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Irishgirl
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Posted - August 25 2009 : 6:37:06 PM
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Great story WW thanks for sharing  I can just see you   |
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BookwormMG
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Posted - August 25 2009 : 8:47:19 PM
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| In terms of number of comments received, this may be the most successful post I've ever written. There's a thought! |
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blackfootblood
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Posted - August 25 2009 : 10:13:45 PM
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OMG!! WW, I've never meant you but I can picture your face!! That is too too funny!!  |
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain!"
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richfed
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Posted - August 26 2009 : 07:06:35 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by BookwormMG
The September issue of National Geographic has a cover article entitled "Before New York: Rediscovering the Wilderness of 1609." For the past ten years or so the Wildlife Conservation Society has conducted what they call the Mannahatta Project, an effort to envision what Manhattan Island would have looked like when Henry Hudson first laid eyes on it. ("Mannahatta" is Lenape for "island of many hills.")
Key to this effort is the "British Headquarters Map," printed in 1782 or 1783, more than ten feet long and three feet wide, and drawn by British military cartographers during the Revolution. Because its purpose was to assist Brisith officers in planning a defense of the island, the map is unusually detailed, including not only topographic features such as hills and streams, but also farms, orchards, and roads. Thus, the HQ map can be overlaid on a map of present-day Manhattan, and you can see what Times Square, for instance, used to be (a red maple swamp). Once the features of the landscape were laid out, the plants and animals that would likely have been part of a particular habitat could be added -- turkey, elk, black bears, and beavers, to name a few.
The author adds that in the winter of 2007, to the amazement of ecologists, a beaver appeared on a riverbank in the Bronx Zoo, where it proceeded to build a lodge. Apparently the Bronx River has been cleaned up considerably! I guess we could even say that Mannahatta hasn't been entirely "trapped out."
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Wilderness Woman
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Posted - August 26 2009 : 10:46:09 AM
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Originally posted by blackfootblood
OMG!! WW, I've never met you but I can picture your face!! That is too too funny!!
Interestingly, if that had happened to me at the age I am now, I wouldn't have been nearly as embarrassed. But, I was in my mid-twenties and newly married, back in the early 70s, when things were not nearly as...... open.... (MG! I'm warning you!! )... as they are now. Quite frankly, I was pretty horrified.
Sorry, Rich. I know you were trying to get this back on track.
Mary, Success comes in may disguises. Enjoy it! |
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Monadnock Guide
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Posted - August 26 2009 : 11:45:40 AM
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| I have no doubt WW, - I'm sure you didn't sleep for days. ;) |
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