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Castine to consider Negro Island name change CASTINE Voters headed to the May 8 Town Meeting will decide if they want to initiate the process of changing the name of Negro Island. The island has borne the name for hundreds of years and is actually two small islands connected by a sandbar in the mouth of the Bagaduce River off Castine. Upper Negro Island is in private hands while Lower Negro Island is owned by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust. The area is popular with kayakers and Lower Negro Island has a short hiking loop and a campsite. It’s not clear how the island got its name, but the local lore that it was part of the Underground Railroad is a myth, said Lisa Simpson Lutts, the executive director of the Castine Historical Society. ....
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Originally published on January 8, 2021 2:49 pm Three geographic features in Jackson County that were once called Dead Indian Mountain, Creek, and Soda Springs are now officially renamed after the Native Latgawa people. Senior researcher with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Jennifer Runyon, says she hopes the new names will inspire people to research the Rogue Valley’s history. “By putting these names on the map and having people maybe seeing these for the first time, we’d like to think they would question that name,” Runyon says. “Do some research. Find out, what does it mean? And they would learn about that tribe that was essentially wiped off the landscape. Names tell stories, retain histories.” ....
(1996) Like most B-movie stars, actress Raven Quinn (Debbie Rochon) has her share of possessive fans. But her neighbor Wayne (Grant Kramer) takes it to a whole new level by donning a Santa suit and taking a gardening claw to anyone else vying for her attention. Killer Claus Content: Wayne does most of his killing in a Santa suit, but in the one case of this movie overdoing it, he also wears a black ski-mask. The ski mask becomes the focal point of the get-up, which diminishes the Santa aspect. Yuletide Terror Quotient: Writer/Director John A. Russo co-wrote The Night of the Living Dead with George R. Romero, but there’s absolutely none of that creativity on display in ....
Why Do So Many Places In Texas Have ‘Negro’ In Their Name, Despite A Law Against It? Texas lawmakers voted to remove the word “Negro” from geographic features in 1991. But a federal board blocked the proposed name changes, and since then, almost none of them have been changed. December 14, 2020, 7:36 AM A map of Texas is displayed on a parking spot at the Old Glory Memorial in El Paso, Texas, last year. Editor’s note: This is a story about the pervasive nature of racial insensitivity in America and how it persists to this day, and contains terms some might find offensive. ....