#Neponset

[theirmarks]

Charles Josiah Wompatuck. Charles Josias. Signum.

Massachusett, with ties to Mattakeeset, Neponset and Wessagusset communities, in the areas south of the place today called “Boston, Massachusetts.” Sachem by 1671. Died after 1695. The mark seen here made on a deed for land from so-called Boston, south to present day Roxbury, Massachusetts, and included Deer Island. 

Kin: his father, Josiah Wompatuck, Sachem at Mattakeesett. Grandfather, Chicatabut, Sachem at Wessagusset. Great-uncle, Cutshamequin, Sachem at Neponset.

Translated from the Algonquian, wompatuck means “white deer” in English. 

This document is referred to as a quitclaim deed for the peninsula of Boston, Massachusetts. Signed March 19, 1684. Seen at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

[maritamorgado]

Jeffrey Dean Morgan on backstage the movie "Neponset Circle"

[mbta-unofficial]

Map of New England after the Bakerite wars of 2307-2319.

Charlie Baker, 9th of his name, declared war on the Dunkin-General-hospitals dynasty in boston from his stronghold in Milton MA. This was the first outbreak in hostilities in the region for more than 600 years, since the coup which politically separated the region from their lords in South Anglia, then England. He declared war after the dynasty refused to place him on the ballot, a variety of local democratic ticket. However, his stronghold on the neponset river was quickly breached, forcing a tactical retreat to allied lands in the south. This act which pulled all local eyes to boston, however, prompted a number of local independence movements culminating in a major redrawing of the political and cultural borders of the region. New Hamshire was among the first to arrest the massachusetts diplomats in the region and declare war, hoping to score territory in the north. However, an unpopular peasant levee left them dealing with morale issues as the Massachusetts army quickly advanced and laid siege to the city of manchester. The siege lasted for almost two years, during which time it was renamed Manchingrad after the famous Russian city of stalingrad which resisted teutonic assault for years in the early 20th century and was the turning point in the second war of american supremacy. Over time, the entire region adopted the name manchganistan in reference to the famously unconquerable region between russia and india. Springfield MA, which had long depended on Connecticut for trade along the connecticut river, and Pittsfield which had long allied with Albany, quietly seceded without military intervention as the massachusetts forces were directed north.

In order to support its war effort, however, the nation of massachusetts began a protracted campaign of plundering coastal regions as far north as nova scotia, as well as taking the harbors of portland and portsmouth as naval bases to control the north atlantic. Their southern reach was curtailed by a treaty with New York City, which had in past centuries expanded considerably and separated from Neue York, the french speaking region dominated by torontonian influence. However, both parties began to squeeze connecticut for their mutual military advantage. In 2314 a Marquis of rhode island was designated with the objective to move the front as far into connecticut territory as possible, and this permanent mobile border still exists to this day.

[gotankgo]

«Boston area - 9-15-71 - Devil Rider had what I think was the most promotion for any Brad Gritner flick outside of the Southern Drive In circuit for the obvious reason for being a Biker movie. It was still the same low-low-budget level of any of his other movies (Flesh Feast, Blood Freak included) and it's co-feature Naked Angels must have looked like an epic by comparison. In Boston, it was at the Center (Loew's) plus the expected Drive In roll call including the Meadow Glen (Medford), Neponset, Weymouth Twin, and many others.

It should have been the other way around, as Angels was AIP and far better, but at least Gritner history has this cool ad to go with it.»

[aardvark-123]

Rumours of a haunting in the Neponset area bring Piper Wright on the trail of a supernatural story. She ropes in MacCready the hired sniper and Facian Longfellow, a Sole Survivor who, despite his prowess in battle, has sworn never to kill.

In the wilderness, they find not a ghost but a lost child, and a gang of ruthless mercenaries who want him for themselves. Luckily, there's a lot Facian, his 10 Charisma and Intimidation perk can do without technically killing anything...

"Facian Longfellow and the Ghost of Neponset Park" is an explosive adventure story in Fallout 4's delightful comic-book style, featuring terrible, shocking violence and attempted child slavery. Think of it as the "pilot episode" for possible further Facian adventures. Read it on Archive of our Own TODAY! if you fancy.

[pussyandpetrichor]

Moswetuset Hummock

Today, I went for a walk and saw the above plaque. My partner and I read it and said to each other that something doesn't feel right about that. Namely, the last bit: With Chickatawbut Governor Winthrop made a treaty which was never broken. Was it possible? Yes, depending on the terms of the treaty it would have been possible for us to live in the world we do and also not have broken one specific treaty, but the lack of specifics concerned me. As such, when I got home, I decided to verify the information.

First step was fairly simple: who are these people. I knew them both basically, but was initially confused as I knew Chickatawbut as Sac'hem not Sagamore, but apparently these are regional dialects of the same word, so clarified well enough. And John Winthrop was the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony which was, at the time, separate from the Plymouth colony established about 10 years prior up the Cape. The Massachusett tribe at Ponkapoag, modern descendants of Chickataubut's Neponset band, spell his name thusly and refer to him as Sac'hem, and moving forward in this post I will do the same.

The treaty between Sac'hem Chickataubut and Governor Winthrop was harder to verify. Many sources I attempted to use cited the very plaque I was reading for information about the treaty.

The English colonists claim in histories that they paid Chickataubut for the land now known as Dorchester to his satisfaction, but the Massachusett have a different interpretation. Based on the conists' continued pursuit of land ownership as of at least 1666, the Massachusetts claim that it was not understood by either side of the deal that land was purchased in perpetuity and instead describe a tributary system as one might expect of a feudal lord. That is to say, it was understood by both the colonists and the natives that the land was owned/controlled by Chickataubut and that they were doing the equivalent of paying rent, rather than purchasing the land outright.

As such, I think it is invalid to claim that the treaty was never broken because, while I cannot find a written text of the treaty, it very much appears that the terms as they were understood are no longer in place.

Above is a link to a text used as citation by the Massachusett tribe on the previously linked article, included because it has some of the relevant information in its first chapter.

[namira]

Does anyone remember that time ball lightning in like 2004 when happened at the Neponset playground...

[mourning-again-in-america]

How do I describe what I like about Chicago? It all comes to me as a mix of scenes, watching the storefronts switch from Guatemalan to Korean to Yemeni walking east to west along Lawrence, seeing the flows of crowds of college students leaving and entering the bars on Lincoln Ave, waiting for the last Metra train of the night in a 24-hour diner right next to the tracks--and these are hardly idiosyncratic experiences in any real city (author's note: I'm not sure if either SF, DC, or Seattle are real cities)

Some of it must be a matter of familiarity -- the streets of cities west of the Rockies are all too damn wide, while all the streets in cities on the East Coast are either too damn tiny or are near-freeways. Some of it comes from the comfort of the building heights -- there's not much for suburban single family housing on the north side, especially as you get near the lake; even the more suburban areas are more likely to be 3-4 story walk-ups. Even though I live a good few miles north of city center, I'm still in a mid-rise apartment building and can see several such buildings out my window.

Some of it is certainly food -- I've not had a proper gyro (where the edges of the meat are crisp and crackly and the inside is thick and wet and spiced) outside of here and it's certainly much easier to find a restaurant that'll serve a half-pound of decent meat here than in Boston, Seattle or SF (also, Chicago's meat foods, like the Polish sausage or Italian beef knock any local meat-between-bread meal out of the park, go suck on your cheesesteaks, Philly). And there feels like there's more options for different cuisines here than anywhere not-NYC -- I really like being able to have a Cuban place and a Serbian place and a Kazakh place and a Nepalese place within a few miles! This isn't even for a lack of good American food -- the burgers here are a significant notch above the Bay, the fried chicken and barbecue are the best you'll get in a Northern city, and I even found a hole-in-the-wall breakfast place that opens at 7am and serves a five egg omelette with bacon and cheese, side of potatoes and rye for under $15!

Some of it has to do with the ease of walking around, people like to make Chicago out to be a dangerous city, and it is dangerous, in the way cities are and suburbs are not, but things feel far more demarcated than they ever were in Boston or the East Bay. I know the local hotspots from just reading reddit (Hermosa, Cragin, Lawndale, largely, for a north-sider, southside is more complicated but I can round it off to "anywhere >1mi from the river and not Hyde Park" and be done with it). In Boston, none of it made any goddamn sense, even just walking up Neponset/Dorchester Ave from Quincy -- things were certainly fine in North Quincy, got sus as I crossed the river, got worse and worse as I went north until I hit the Indochinese district just a bit south of UMass -- and then somehow things get worse again as I approach Andrew, but north of Andrew is completely fine?!! What gives? At least on Chicago I know that outside of the Milwaukee Ave sitch, things generally get worse as you go west and south. Simple as. East Bay, nobody seemed to talk about it, or assumed that if there was ever a problem, the problem was with YOU. So I got some weird signals west of MLK (except for the area near Tamaleria Azteca and Al-Maida, those places are goated), couldn't pick up any new info, there wasn't anything around I was interested in seeing, so I just gave up and learned the areas on Telegraph as well as I could.

A large part of it has to do with the night-scene--there's food-places open after 10pm here, that aren't even bars! What a wild world, coming from Boston and the Bay! More than that, they're often even open after midnight in the hotter areas--what bounty being able to choose if I want pizza, tacos, or a Polish around 1am on a night-walk!

I don't know why I like it here, but I do.

[mbta-unofficial]

This fails to make greater boston its own state based on the charles, mystic and neponset basins and is therefore invalid

Also you know those fuckers west of springfield would leave us for west CT to form greater Housatonia in a second, not to mention how pretentious VT would be about being connected to the seaway

Where are my petty new england micronationalisms goddamnit

US state borders but they are based off rivers and mountains

[monkeyssalad-blog]

John Joseph Enneking «Autumn Morning, Neponset», 1891 by Art Therapy by Julianna Via Flickr: Oil on canvas; 55.9x76.2 cm. {22x30in}

[maritamorgado]

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[usaccidents]

MONTEREY COUNTY, CA (November 5, 2024) — A man died in a head-on accident near Monte Road and Neponset Road.

[cindyzelman]

Childless Cat Lady: Growing Old with Timmy

In 2011, my mother and I walked into a PetSmart in Attleboro, Massachusetts and were met with quite a few pairs of cats sharing pet carriers: mothers and daughters mostly, sisters in one case, and in a final pairing, two separate cat carriers one with a mother and the other with her son. The Neponset Valley Humane Society brought the pairs to us because we’d requested two cats to adopt after the…

[sunnysundiego]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Cliffs 'NEPONSET' Women's Bootie Faux Suede Lace Up Boots Plaid Cuff Detail, 8.5.

[breakrockbrewing]

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