The recent surprise announcement that the only opposition to the current “Chief Conductor” on the proposed “Choo Choo Express” in the next mayoral race and future in our booming municipality has on ...

In Bill Bryson's "Made in America", the claim is made that the origin of "neck" is the Algonquian word "naiack" meaning "point, corner", Algonquian being the name for a North American native ...

If the lost colonists followed this path and assimilated quickly into Carolina Algonquian society, as many historians believe, they may have left evidence in the form of DNA in their descendants.

The spacious property located at 9 Algonquian Drive in Natick was sold on April 1, 2024 for $1,300,000, or $587 per square ...

Not surprisingly, the English word skunk has stinky origins. The New England Algonquian people named this small mammal after the words “fox” and “to urinate.” Both foxes and animal urine ...

"A portion of skeletal remains" were found on Narrumson Road in Wall Township where a foundation was being dug on March 12, ...

Another challenge was having our actors deliver lines in the Algonquian language. Though it has been extinct for more than 200 years, linguists have been hard at work trying to reconstruct it.

According to one of my favorite reference books, “The Placenames of Maryland, Their Origin and Meaning,” by Hammill Kenny, the Algonquian name Catoctin could be interpreted as “Speckled Mountain.” ...

Political maps of North America before the colonial period left a lot to be desired. A blogger decided to make better ones, including of the Chesapeake Bay area.

The name of June’s full moon originates from the Native American Algonquian tribes that lived in the northeastern region of the U.S. The name “Strawberry Moon”, marks the time of the season ...

You've heard of Wally the Green Monster and the Phillie Phanatic, but what about the Connecticut Sun's mascot?

Since 2008, he has worked with Algonquian language communities on language documentation and revitalization. He helped create an authoritative, community-driven dictionary of Forest County Potawatomi ...