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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 240: My grandmother, Lorna ...
Description: Chapter 1In Which Lorna Is Born into the Huber Family, of Chacallit, New YorkMY GRANDMOTHER, Lorna Huber, was born in Chacallit, New York, fifty miles or so northwest of Albany, in the valley of the Whatsit River, a tributary of the Mohawk. The name of the town has a curious etymology. The first English settlers arrived around 1680, some fifty years after William Oughtred developed the first calculating instrument that could be called a slide rule. These settlers knew the Mohawk name for the place, which meant, loosely, “place where many fur-bearing animals ca...