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Default Speaking of boats...

On May 17, 4:33 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Apparently the indians were fighting over fishing rights in the lake
from both sides long ago and they made an agreement:
"You fish on your side, I fish on my side, no one fishes the middle".
That's what the indian name of the lake means, or so I was told. Looks
very nice, I have never been there.


It's a fable - the name is Nipmuc for neutral fishing grounds or
something like that.


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Well, I can still spell it, 40 years later