Category: Features

The Wave Beneath My Fins

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh It must have been cold in the deep waters Never having the sunshine on your fins You were content to let me swim on top You always swam in my shadow Yes, I was the one with all the glory While you were the one swimming so strong A streamlined…

Full Beaver Moon or Frost Moon

Christine Reding November aptly named for beavers lodging for winter Heating rocks wrapped in leather skins for warming Daily provisions being secured are decreasingly thinner Existing on berries, butternuts, acorns, walnuts forming A rich surplus of earth’s maple syrup tapped and dripping Hunting with banner stones weighted when thrusting a spear Soapstone nets sink below…

U.S. Marines—Flag and Seal, Song, and Motto

Ross Dunfee Flag and Seal: Marines used the Grand Union flag, and possibly the Gadsden flag (yellow flag with a “Don’t Tread on Me” rattlesnake), during the assault on New Providence Island, The Bahamas, on March 3, 1776. During the 1830s and 1840s, the flag consisted of a gold fringed white field centered with an eagle…