Comments on: The Last of the Chippewa Mail Runners

By: Dan from Madison

Dan from Madison — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:49:29 +0000

Mitch – not saying that they wouldn’t use the tools we have now if they were available to them. I just can’t wrap my head around NOT having the tools, and living such a tough existence.

By the way, good on you for getting exercise, I am a zealot when it comes to staying in shape.

By: Dan from Madison

Dan from Madison — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:21:24 +0000

Bgates – good one.

By: bgates

bgates — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:43:35 +0000

The bugs must have been literally insane in the summer.

Poor bugs. Were they unable to distinguish between right and wrong, or just between literal and figurative?

By: Mitch Townsend

Mitch Townsend — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:25:51 +0000

Hate to say it, but we walk the dog 4 miles every day in good weather. In bad weather, she walks the dog and I stay home to tease the cats. 65 miles seems a bit excessive, but then we have a car. I doubt Mr. Dennis would have left his car in the driveway, if he had had a car. Or a driveway.

We do what we have to. However, we try not to do more that we have to. No doubt our neolithic forebears would have been contemptuous of our pitiful efforts at flint-knapping, but that will not stop me from using nice sharp German steel knives in the kitchen. They would have used them, too, given the opportunity.

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:10:21 +0000

By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.