The December LNPA newsletter came out, with a link to what they’ve been up to including a new ethnobotany book that our Lenape teacher has created. The Lenape class is on hiatus for a while for various reasons, so in its’ place I wrote a short story. This hasn’t […]
Today is Indigenous People’s Day, and there’s many events today and throughout the month. Our Lenape language teacher, who teaches classes nearly every evening to keep the language alive is even busier this month as everyone wants speakers for events and there are very few of the Lenape […]
It’s been a while since the last Lenape post. Since then, the Lenape Nation of PA (the group that I’m learning Lenape with) has increased its efforts to get recognition from the state of Pennsylvania. They spent a day in Harrisburg meeting with legislators recently. Now, they’re organizing […]
This week the DelCo Times has a story about Plush Mills turning 15. Weirdly I came across this in one of the other papers the DelCo Times conglomerate owns, here’s a link. I thought it might be interesting to look back at Plush Mills and those 15 years […]
One of the students in my Lenape class suggested writing Haiku’s in Lenape. Here’s my first effort, Nkata machi aShekw ahpu wikewaminkAhas. Ntalemi I should want to go homeBut in my house isA crow. I am afraid. We have also been learning subjunctive, conjunctive and subordinate forms of […]
The article earlier this week made me notice how infrequent I see stories like the ones I quoted in the news today. A little local story of no great note to the world at large but complete with quotes from those involved who cared passionately about it. I […]
I haven’t had much time for historical research lately, but I happened to stop at the bench by the memorial in Houston Park for Heather-Lyn Manzi. From the June 28, 2004 DelCo Times, A memorial honoring a young Nether Providence Athletic Association (NPAA) soccer player who died in […]
WHYY had a nice piece this week marking the 100th birthday of the Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley, The company was founded as a collective by Jasper Deeter, an actor and director who left New York when he felt the city’s theater scene was becoming too commercial. In […]
Its been a while since the last entry in this series, but this week I started looking into Smedley Park, the township’s largest park. Smedley Park was established as a small park known as “The Hemlocks” in 1937 from two tracts of land before soon being named Smedley […]
My class is closing in on two years of Lenape study, and we’re starting to reach the edges of what’s readily available on the Lenape Talking Dictionary. We’ve been working on subjunctives recently and the two linguistics professors in our class are starting to have to research some […]
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