While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Aspinet. A sachem of
Nauset on C. Cod, Mass. He was
known to the Plymouth colonists as early as 1621, and is noted chiefly for his
unwavering friendship for the English. He kindly treated and re turned to his
parents a white boy who had lost his way in the woods and was found by some of
Aspinet s people. In the winter of 1622, when Thomas \Yes-ton s men saw famine
staring them in the face, and the Plymouth people were but little better off,
Aspinet and his people came to their relief with corn and beans. It was his firm
stand in favor of peace with the colonists, and his self-restraint when provoked
almost beyond forbearance by Standish s hasty temper, that pre served the
friendly relations of the surrounding Indians" with the Plymouth colony during
its early years. He was, however, finally driven into the swamps by threats of
attacks by the English, and died in his unhealthful hiding place probably in
1623. (C. T.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
