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!
Machapunga
('bad dust'; from matchi 'bad', pungo 'dust' (Heckewelder),
or perhaps 'much dust,' from massa 'great', in allusion to the
sandy soil of the district). An Algonquian tribe formerly living in Hyde
county, north east N. C. In 1701 they numbered only about 30 warriors, or
perhaps 100 souls, and lived in a single village called Mattamuskeet. They
took part in the Tuscarora war of 1711-12 and at its conclusion the
remnant, together with the Coree, were settled
on a tract on Mattamuskeet lake, where the two tribes occupied one
village.
