Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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THE CRIMSON AND GRAY JAMES DENNISON- -THE HARDY PIONEER l'leanor Barr 39 He settled flrst In Medfteld That hardy pioneer But soon he pushed out westward And landed ox er here He had no frtend to gutde htm Or help htm when tn fear Of lndtan and tomahawk When he knew them near He had no house to lne tn But rn a cave he lay He ttlled the soul and cleared the land Worked hard from day to day He butlt a home and brought has wlfe Across untraveled ways They traveled stealthtly by night And tourneyed many days Twas tn hrs barn the fnrst whlte schoo Around these parts was known From thts small spot has Southbrldge sprung And are ter has rt grown As for the one who ftrst trod ground Where Southbrtdoe dear does lle Hts name wall ltve for centurtes Aw ntver wtll tt due THE LEG ND Ol l.ArsE MASHAPAUG nald man John Thompson has ltvcd an Mashap ug Connec ttcut for seventx lnc ye trs 'I he other day whale on Tl 1 met htm and we talked over old trwes fu w were atscusslng the stones of ole Nashaooua tn t lr me ab ut x a old lndtans s w and talked tt f Q I Tl ey ere st the w of Qt that tht wo o twcm tw f regted tut ld lncltans Nl1O must wav een at le st mnhty tears ld cane up to my house c Q c led for cmeth ng t e Then they to mc of the Legend of Lake Moshe :wus c were wa rtors In t fona lc t w 1 t ls u f w Mashapa Lake closc by tne hc waters of he une b ug Rtver Althotgh once a power ul Je our t n d der arte for trtbe loxed the r food and rexel more than warfare and hunting cnd they did not fear the Great Sptrrt Our beauttful queen Nohemo dtd not rule our people as a wtse queen should but led them an thetr feasttng fvlany ttmes had Nohemo vsstted the strange prophetess N hentus on the top of the ptne clad mountain many questions Nohemo had asked her about the future of our people but Nahentts only answered The Great Sptrtt tells me that has onger ts growtng He will show our wtcked people tnat hts anger ts not fruttless but rtpe and full of potson We are drtfttng down th stream of life and at the end we will due lf we contxnue our feasttng When a whnte swan shall come smkmg from the sky above A 4 you and fall, dying, ct your feet, vengeance will be s vlft and mighty' But Flohemo heeded not the worntnos of Nahcntts and tn October when the forest x as tr dtfferent colors she held a feast for our people wtth slnglng and games Maharnft and l were mere boys We feastea wtth the others but as the chantlng began we had to leave because the Great Splrtt ltstens only to grown warriors and squaws We wancle ed unto the forest and cltmbed above the valley untll the figures faded an d only the light of the fires and the chantxng of the people could be seen and heard Then as Nohemo was srngtng the sky grew dark and thunder rumbled nn the dns tan e cnd the wtnd roared through the forest As the storm Increased and the sky darkened our wtcked people heard Nahentls chanting from the crag tn the mountatn above them O mv people she sold O Nohemo too far cown stream have you floated Then came a sharp crash of thunder and throuah the pane boughs lluttered a btrd of snowy olumage The rocks began to tremble and the ground to heave and open As Nohemo looked skyward she thought of Nahentts andthe warntng of the whtte swan and she clasped her hands In angutsh because of the wrona she had done The rt ountotn ant nts p p e sank am g o ang e xa y w :aan a torrents of water whtch coxered excngtl Ina exccot old Nahcntts who stood wt ummut whtrh ts now an tslan tue Lakt oraxn g tt the Great Spur: Thus was Mashanaua Lake fotmea And en tct tic fisherman t sunset O ten Cce cs the ltr-ht shrnes throufah the water c rtsc tw toms an a eve o Nahentts who was O9 years old when we Qglnw th r r ear hrna for wer x rctea ws Jtetn 'lr-lE IND AN Rtcl ard Aucotn K scoa blaff 1 ,to and tt .mc cork nes tn a duslfen ace Rex cl the secret of nts race W tw war pau t smecred oer has fc e an chest Wwe sec l m le td the rlan e of death This Brave wa fearless nrt the ftqht He stroxe and fought wtth all has mrght But now he s rn a reservatton Worl ung at an occupatvon That bends hls back the weary toll Of laborrng long wtth worthless soul Once the terror of th plalns of old Now meek and humble and controlled Hts dreams of yore have faded away, And left htm alone tn sad dlsmay Z 1 K X , . . . 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ml gi 5 QQIQJLIQQCS s--,.S.S as INDIAN HISTORY or THIS SECTION or MASSACHUSETTS TOWN WAS DISCOV RED IN FALL OF I633 Eleanor Rowett 39 Thnrteen years after the PIlgrImS landed at Ply mouth Rock a party of traders headed by John Old ham famed for hts commercIal dealIngs wIth the Dutch Settlers In New Amsterdam and persons In VIFQIWIO started to tour through the terrItory habIted by the Nlpmuck lndIans In order to spy out the habIts of the Dutch and to see the country l the xear l633 four men arrIved at the lndIan town called by the lmpmucks Tantusque and were gnv en a frIend'y welcome ThIs town was located In what IS now part of Sturbrudge and Southbrldge When they were to return home they were gIven lumps of black lead gIven them by chIetS of the trIbe and also some crops The lead drew quute a lot of attentlon In Boston and John WInthrop Jr son of Governor WInthrop was one of the fIrst whIte men to explore these hIlls Southbndge was then called Honest Town the reason IS not known In I 196 the boundanes of the Town were determIned and In l8OO the petItIon to be a separate colony and lI'ICllVldUOl relIgIous communlty was sIgned THE TANTIUSQUES Eleanor Haynes 39 The most common trube of lndIans who lIved In thxs SECTION were the TOIWTIUSCILIGS The TantIusaue J Ilage was sItuated on the shore of Cedar pond At present the Stur' rIdge FaIr Grounds cover the orIgInal SITE Whnle makIng the race track an lndIan storehouse was found lDl.IFl9Cl In the ground ln the storehouse were found deposIts of blank blades placed there for he purpose of softenung untIl they were needed to be made Into arrowheads spears or knlves ThIs col IectIon IS sand to be IU the Southbrxdge Museum Another specImen of lndIan tools found near the Tant usaue vIllage was a whole scalpIng knIfe Many stone Implements and arrows used by the natwes have been found near The Common In Sturbndge The Tanhusque vIllage was very well sItuated on the south shore of Cedar pond The wIgwams extend ed from the knoll back of the grandstond to the lake I-ood was easuly procured both from the fISl'tII'IQ and huntIng In the rear by woods Sevcral acres of easIly tIlled corn land we e near at hand EARLY INDIAN LORE OF WOQCESTEP COUNTY LouIse Gregowe 39 The orIgInaI source of the uInebaug RIver IS a pon I called oy the lnd ans Quassuck lt IS sItuated In the southwesterly part of he regIon whIch IS now Called LeodmIne pond Th valley of tne QuInebaug Rwer furnIshes the openmg through whIch passes what IS called In the early town records the great road One who IS In Oxford Dudley or Woodstock and desIreS to drIve to SprIngfIeld by the most dIrect coun try road wIll go through thIS valley the way along whIch the road of the whlte man and the path of the lndIan has run from tame ImmemorIal One Important lndIan path from southeastern Massachusetts was called the Path to Nrpmuck Great Pond NIpmuck great pond IS understood to be the 'tne wIth the long name In Webster and the lndIan VlllGQC was northwest or the pond or on the Oxford sxde Another lndIan path entered Southbndge over Le banon HIII then In a dIrect course It passed over Den Ison hIII to Qumebaug RIVQV below the shuttle factory crossIng the old fordway the e Into Sturbndge rIsIng and followIng the rIdge of FIske HIII to the north end of the some where It unIted wIth the path from Ox ord The unIted paths before reachlng the Old Fordway at Tcnhusaue struck off a branch northeasterly to the lndIan VIllOQ9 of Quobagud flVS or SIX mIles dIs tant on the shore of Poclunk pond ThIs branch IS fol lowed by a publIc hIghway called New Boston Road All the paths convergxng from the east and south east were Llnlled before reachlng the Old Fordway and so contlnued to the sIte of FIskdale vIllage The course was then to the north end of the old pond now covered by the Long Pond reservoIr then to north end of LIt he Alum pond In BrImfIeld and on to Quabaug Old Fort SIl'LIGl'6d In BrImfIeld north of Sherman s pond on what IS called lndIan I-lIll The ll'ICllOI'IS had theIr small cluster of wIgwams on suItabIe ground at the outlet of nearly every one of the natural ponds that are the sources of the Qume baug RIVEF The lndIan paths In theIr westward course passed over FIske Hull and down the slope to the valley of the l-antusque brool The fordway near Sturbndge com mon IS lIkely to have been used for the southeastern path from Wabboquasset or Woodstock Another three fourths of a mIle further up the brook where the PIstol pond dam has been buIlt was used by the Oxford path WEBSTER LAKE AIIce I-long ll I abscntnundedly left the LlICIl of thc I'CIClIO tuned on pouuea Into the room lt was an lndIan tune called The Song of the Lake and qulte a pretty tune Whrle gethng It clearer I recalled the ancIent legend of the Lake lt IS an lndIan legend and has been handed down from g neratIon to generatIon Any way It all comc beck to me that th Lake In the song IS VVebster Lake and that the lndIans called It Chau gogg goggrf nchauaoggagoggch ubunagungamaug rathe ar odd or d long n me hut thIs IS the meanIng One day an lndIan chlef decIdcd he would go fIshIng I-le to k ferythma he needed and started for the Lake arrIyIng there at precIsely the same tIme an other chIef dIa They bo h wanted to fIsn In the mld dle of the Lake Tc avoId a battle of trIbes one chlef ttnallf so d to the other Chaugoggagoggmanchaug oggagoggch ubunagungamaug whIch means You fIsh on your sIde l ll fIsh on my sxde and no one wIII rIsh In the mIddle So each chlef took one sIde of the Lake and the dlspute was avoIded Frcm then on the lndIans called the Lake Chau gogg gogqmanchaugoggagoggchaubunagungamaug Many people cannot pronounce the word although It IS not at all complxcated lf you wIsh to glImpse the lake whIch causes so much trouble In pronunclatlon It Is found In Webster Massachusetts, o lIttle town about ten mlles from Southbrldge I 'I ' - I , , . , I ' I ' , . 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