To even the most ardent golfer, the status of the game in Cecil County seems bleak. Over the past two years, the county has lost two of its five links as the economy takes a toll on golf course management.
The Birchbark House (by Louise Erdrich) 271 pages. The Birchbark House is a book about an Ojibwa girl, set on an island in 1847. You will learn about the Ojibwa, their customs, beliefs, foods, responses to the rhythm of the seasons and more through young Omakayas and her family.
Tanbark is the bark of certain species of tree. It is traditionally used for tanning hides into leather. Bark mills are horse- or oxen-driven or water powered edge mills and were used in earlier times to shred the tanbark to derive tannins for the leather industry. A barker was a person who stripped bark from trees to supply bark mills.