Words & Fragments: Quonset. Canoe. Skunk. -Maug, -Paug.
Thoughts into being, words.
— Moo Dog Press (@moodogpress.com) July 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Go. Frittering a gift away? Write.
Their Kindred Earth (newly published book on left, a sleeper) “gathers images of Black Connecticut's historic sites by celebrated photographer William Earle Williams. A series of texts illuminate how these sites connect to the larger national and international narrative of Black American history.“
— Moo Dog Press (@moodogpress.com) July 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Hello.
Jerry Augustine and his book “Combat, Suffering and Renewed Passion in Life • Milton A. Toratti” with many photographs by the author. All proceeds from the sale of his go to support Greater Middletown Military Museum. Tku to Betty, his wife, for mentioning that. #localauthors #BookWalk
— Moo Dog Press (@moodogpress.com) July 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
(Yes, see the word “book” is missing–that was written while in Old Wethersfield that day. Human.)
Time and stories. Ten years ahead; maybe 20. Writers peeling off from legacy media, starting their own ventures.
#GoogleZero is definitely a concern people are talking about. Platform dependence is a problem for MANY reasons. If you are in NYC in August, come out to #ProtocolsForPublishers where we will be discussing this and more —frontier technologists working together with newsrooms 💪
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— Chad Kohalyk (@chadkoh.com) July 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
For places, words are clues. Look closer. Connecticut.
“From the names of states, cities, and towns to the names of rivers, lakes, mountains, and deserts, the contributions of Native American languages are omnipresent, and too many to catalog here.
“For a sampling, the following are names of tribes that have been applied to places, including states (Illinois, Delaware, Massachusett, Iowa, Kansas, Alabama, Missouri), cities and towns (Miami, Montauk, Mobile, Biloxi, Cheyenne, Natchez, Wichita, Spokan, Walla Walla, Yuma), rivers and lakes (Erie, Huron, Missouri), and mountains and deserts (Apalachee, Teton, Mohave, Shasta).
“More place names come from other indigenous words. Connecticut, which names both a state and a river, comes from an Algonquian word meaning “land on the long tidal river,” and the state of Wyoming gets its name from a Delaware word meaning “land of vast plains.”