#algonkian

Algonkian Golf Course – Sterling, VA

Over the weekend, I got a chance to play a round at Algonkian Golf Course in Sterling, VA. It was a challenging course, with the tips playing at almost 7,000 yards. I’m not a long enough hitter to play from the tips, so I played up on the white tees, but that still played to 6,592 yards.

Algonkian Golf Course is an 18-hole, par-72 course and is a relatively flat and forgiving course. They have…

Simple possessions are placed in the grave of a deceased relative in this re-creation of a Caborn-Welborn burial set amid thatched wattle-and-daub houses overlooking the Ohio River. Research suggests that the Caborn-Welborn people were Shawnee, speakers of Algonkian languages living in groups located throughout the Southeast, and that the settlement depicted in this painting belongs to the Caborn-Welborn phase (about 1450-1650) of the late Mississippian period.

Alone- adjective- separate , apart or isolated from others

I am alone, in a motel (motel, not hotel, definitely motel) room. It is a pleasant enough room, a decent view of the pool and gardens, a cute little porch outside to sit on, but still it is a motel with bad carpeting and brown the predominant color. I am alone in this room, about to work on my assignments, study what I have been told to study, re-read material I have printed and bound, because I…

IMPROVISE- verb- to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation

I am preparing for a writer’s conference, one where I will have to take my big red suitcase- I always love it when I need my big red suitcase, it means I am going to be gone for at least four days. The smaller black suitcase can only accommodate a three-day travel, unless it’s somewhere tropical, where flirty light dresses and swimsuits are what are required. I am traveling to San Francisco, and…

These stamps celebrating the Algonkian [Algonquin] people were issued on this date in 1973.  Though they share their name with Algonquin Provincial Park (and also should not be confused with the Algonquian language and its speakers), the majority of the Algonquin First Nations live in Quebec, with a total population throughout Canada of roughly 11,000.  In 2007, two Algonquin co-chiefs were arrested for leading a peaceful blockade on their sacred lands of an operation by Frontenac Ventures Corporation north of Kingston.  Frontenac Ventures then sued the Algonquins to the tune of $77 million in civil damages.  Charming.