[Magdalen] Speaking of unfortunate names

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 18:29:19 UTC 2016


Actually, Lynn, I didn't know about the made up ones!  I do know there are some mighty strange town names: Bad Axe, Hell, Paradise,  Grawn (I think that's in MI.)

On June 1, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

in re Ontonagon... Grace, you may or may not know that MI is filled with 
both real and made up Indian named towns... ; (

Lynn

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From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 12:55 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Speaking of unfortunate names

> I'm guessing a Native American tribe?
>
>> On Jun 1, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen 
>> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/1/2016 11:51:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> And  speaking of high schools with weird names, there is, or was, a rural
>> high  school "up nort" somewhere in Wisconsin called Ondossagon. There 
>> isn't
>> a  town by that name, so I'm not quite sure where it is. One year back
>> before  they divided the state high school basketball tournament into
>> classes by  size, the "cinderella" team happened to be the one from
>> Ondossagon, leading  one of the sportswriters in Madison to quip, "Just 
>> what
>> kind of geometric  figure is
>> There is Ontonagon, Michigan, on Lake Superior not far from the
>> Wisconsin line.
>>
>> I understand the school song for Ontonagon High School is "Ontonagon"
>> inserted in "On Wisconsin" for those words, and using the On  Wisconsin
>> tune and the rest of the Wisconsin text.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Strang..
>>
>>
>>
>> 


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