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proserpinaem · 9 months

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Back on my hyperfixation shenanigans so I have not slept and here's a list of what I consider to be the prettiest beetles, butterflies and moths, damselflies, and grasshoppers and crickets that inhabit Colorado and Kentucky according to insectidentification.org :

COLORADO

Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis)

Fifteen-spotted lady beetle (Anatis labiculata)

Golden tortoise beetle (Charidotella sexpunctata)

Knapweed root weevil (Cyphocleonus achates)

Longhorn beetle (Semanotus amethystinus)

Dogbane Leaf Beetle (Chrysochus auratus)

European Ground Beetle (Carabus nemoralis)

Golden Net-wing Beetle (Dictyoptera aurora)?

Margined Blister Beetle (Epicauta funebris)

May Beetle - P. lanceolata (Phyllophaga lanceolata)

Mottled Tortoise Beetle (Deloyala guttata)

Pleasing Fungus Beetle (Gibbifer californicus)

Poplar Borer Beetle (Saperda calcarata)

Shining Leaf Chafer - Anomala spp. (Anomala spp.)

Signate Lady Beetle (Hyperaspis signata)

American Lappet Moth (Phyllodesma americana)

Cinnabar Moth (Tyria jacobaeae)

Common Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus communis)

Glover's Silkmoth (Hyalophora columbia gloveri)

Great Ash Sphinx Moth (Sphinx chersis)

Autumn Meadowhawk (Sympetrum vicinum)

Black Saddlebags Skimmer (Tramea lacerata)

Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca spp.)

Obscure Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca obscura)

Sooty Longwing Katydid (Capnobotes fulginosus)

KENTUCKY

Andrew's Snail-eating Beetle (Scaphinotus andrewsii)

Black Firefly (Lucidota atra)

Calligrapha Beetle (Calligrapha spp)

Eastern Hercules Beetle (Dynastes tityus)

Emerald Euphoria Beetle (Euphoria fulgida)

Glowworm (Phengodes spp.)

Goldsmith Beetle (Cotalpa lanigera)

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle: Chalcophora (Chalcophora fortis)

Notched-mouth Ground Beetle (Dicaelus purpuratus)

One-spotted Tiger Beetle (Apterodela unipuncata)

Rainbow Darkling Beetle (Tarpela micans)

Rainbow Scarab Beetle (Phanaeus vindex)

Six-spotted Tiger Beetle (Cicindela sexguttata)

Southern Sculptured Pine Borer Beetle (Chalcophora georgiana)

Stag Beetle (Lucanus capreolus)

Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle (Chilocorus stigma)

Vietinghoff's Ground Beetle (Carabus vietinghoffii)

Abbott's Sphinx Moth (Sphecodina abbottii)

American Ermine Moth (Yponomeuta multipunctella)

Arched Hooktip (Drepana arcuata)

American Bird's-Wing Moth (Dypterygia rozmani)

Arcigera Flower Moth (Schinia arcigera)

Attentive Crocus Moth (Xanthotype attenuaria)

Basswood Leafroller (Pantographa limata)

Beautiful Wood-Nymph (Eudryas grata)

Black-waved Flannel Moth (Megalopyge crispata)

Blackberry Looper (Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria

Blinded Sphinx Moth (Paonias excaecata)

Bluish Spring Moth (Lomographa semiclarata

Buck Moth (Hemileuca maia)

Carmine Snout Moth (Peoria approximella)

Carrot Seed Moth (Sitochroa palealis)

Cecropia Silk Moth (Hyalophora cecropia)

Changeable Grass-Veneer (Fissicrambus mutabilis)

Colorful Zale (Zale minerea)

Common Lytrosis Moth (Lytrosis unitaria)

Confused Eusarca (Eusarca confusaria)

Cross-lined Wave (Timandra amaturaria)

Curve-toothed Geometer (Eutrapela clemataria)

Dark-banded Geometer (Ecliptopera atricolorata)

Deep Yellow Euchlaena (Euchlaena amoenaria)

Diaphania costata (Diaphania costata

Dimorphic Macalla (Epipaschia superatalis)

Dot-lined White (Artace cribrarius)

Dotted Gray (Glena cribrataria)

Drab Prominent (Misogada unicolor)

Eight-spotted Forester Moth (Alypia octomaculata)

Elder Shoot Borer (Achatodes zeae)

Explicit Arches (Lacinipolia explicata)

Eyed Paectes Moth (Paectes oculatrix)

Falcate Orangetip (Anthocharis midea) (female)

Fall Webworm (Hyphantria cunea)

False Crocus Geometer (Xanthotype urticaria

Fervid Plagodis (Plagodis fervidaria)

Fig Sphinx (Pachylia ficus)

Friendly Probole Moth (Probole amicaria)

Giant Leopard Moth (Hypercompe scribonia)

Goldcap Moss-eater Moth (Epimartyria auricrinella)

Gray-edged Hypena (Hypena madefactalis)

Green Arches (Anaplectoides prasina)

Hag Moth (Phobetron pithecium

Hibiscus Leaf Caterpillar Moth (Rusicada privata)

Imperial Moth (Eacles imperialis)

Lesser Maple Spanworm Moth (Speranza pustularia

Luna Moth (Actias luna)

Melissa Blue Butterfly (Plebejus melissa spp.)

Modest Sphinx Moth (Pachysphinx modesta)

Morbid Owlet Moth (Chytolita morbidalis)

Orange-patched Smoky Moth (Pyromorpha dimidiata)

Pale Beauty (Campaea perlata)

Pale Lichen Moth (Crambidia pallida)

Pale Metarranthis (Metarranthis indeclinata)

Pandorus Sphinx Moth (Eumorpha pandorus)

Parthenice Tiger Moth (Apantesis parthenice)

Pearly Wood-Nymph Moth (Eudryas unio)

Pero Moth (Pero spp.)

Pink-patched Looper (Eosphoropteryx thyatyroides)

Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor)

Pistachio Emerald Moth (Hethemia pistasciaria)

Plebeian Sphinx Moth (Paratrea plebeja) (Caterpillar)

Primrose Moth (Schinia florida)

Promiscuous Angle Moth (Macaria promiscuata)

Raspberry Pyrausta (Pyrausta signatalis)

Rustic Sphinx Moth (Manduca rustica)

Saddleback Caterpillar Moth (Acharia stimulea)

Saddled Yellowhorn (Colocasia flavicornis)

Salt-and-pepper Looper Moth (Syngrapha rectangula)

Satin Moth (Leucoma salicis)

Scarlet-winged Lichen Moth (Hypoprepia miniata)

Schlaeger's Fruitworm Moth (Antaeotricha schlaegeri)

Showy Emerald Moth (Dichorda iridaria)

Small Bird Dropping Moth (Ponometia erastrioides)

Snowy Urola (Urola nivalis)

Sorghum Webworm Moth (Nola cereella)

Southern Flannel Moth (Megalopyge opercularis)

Southern Longhorn Moth (Adela caeruleella)

Southern Pine Sphinx (Lapara coniferarum)

Southern Tussock Moth (Dasychira meridionalis)

The Badwing (Dyspteris abortivaria)

Unspotted Looper Moth (Allagrapha aerea)

Venerable Dart Moth (Agrotis venerabilis

Vine Sphinx Moth (Eumorpha vitis)

Walnut Sphinx Moth (Amorpha juglandis)

Wavy-lined Emerald Moth (Synchlora aerata)

Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer Moth (Harrisina metallica)

White Flannel Moth (Norape ovina)

White Slant-line Moth (Tetracis cachexiata)

White-fringed Emerald Moth (Nemoria mimosaria)

Yucca Moth (Tegeticula, Greya, and Prodoxus spp.)

Carolina Locust (Dissosteira carolina)

Eastern Shieldback Katydid (Atlanticus spp.)

Slender Meadow Katydid (Conocephalus fasciatus)

True Katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia)

Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata)

Midland Clubtail (Gomphurus fraternus)

Red Saddlebags (Tramea onusta)

Seepage Dancer (Argia bipunctulata)

#hyperfixation #em'ry macaire #rambles #insects #Colorado #Kentucky

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trinoxtrinox · 2 years

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Danny's guardian

Ectoberhaunt 2022, Side Chaos. Prompt: Wraith

Summary:

Wraith: The word has no certain etymology. J. R. R. Tolkien favored a link with writhe. Also compared are Scots warth and Old Norse vǫrðr (“watcher, guardian”), whence Icelandic vörður (“guard”). See also wray/bewray, from Middle English wreien. Perhaps from wrath as a wraith is a vengeful spirit.

Vǫrðr: In Norse mythology, a vǫrðr (Old Norse: [ˈwɔrðz̠], pl. varðir [ˈwɑrðez̠] or verðir [ˈwerðez̠] — "warden," "watcher" or "caretaker") is a warden spirit, believed to follow from birth to death the soul (hugr) of every person.

Concent Warning: Death, but then again, it's Danny's death that gets mentioned, does it really count?

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In the backyard of Fentonworks resided a tree, it wasn’t the tallest tree of them all, standing at 70 feet tall, with a white trunk filled and patches of light brown, no knots present in any part of it’s bark and branches twisting and going up and down, side to side, leaving all the leaves to give the tree as a whole a dome shape stretched to the top, leaves which are more often than not dark green, with some of them that haven’t fully grown yet being light green. Its roots spread deep underground, with all of them being thick as well.

This American Basswood has been in this lot for quite a while, with it being 85 years old, and despite it not being the strongest tree, it has managed to stand tall and proud all the time, no matter the weather nor the condition of the place.

From the roots of the tree rose a light, which was tinted green and barely illuminated its surroundings. From said light eventually a baby was formed, one that remained invisible all the time for the human eye. Said ghost floated away from its tree and eventually came upon a window, from which it remained a respectful distance away as it saw the baby whose appearance it was copying sleep peacefully.

“Another night safe from the dangers of that house.” the ghost spoke, smiling softly as he said so, only to frown upon thinking something else, “Or at least for now.”

He began floating away from the house and back to the tree it resided in, leaning himself against its bark as it had done plenty of nights before. “Oh if only I could spare him of his fate.”

“You know you can’t.” another voice joined him, as he felt a medallion slip onto his neck and landing softly on his small chest, said medallion occupying the totality of his torso. Beside him floated calmly a ghost with pale blue skin, purple cloak covering his face and the sound of clocks chiming from both his wrist and chest, both of which showcased a variety of watches from different time periods.

“I know Clockwork, that doesn’t mean that I have to like it,” the ghost who was faint to the sight thus far showed himself, showing that he was indeed a carbon copy of the bay in the room before, however instead of having his black hair or blue eyes, he had white hair and neon green eyes; not to mention that their skin was darker than the human counterpart, “it’s always sad to see a young human pass away, and even though he’ll survive, a part of him will still die.”

“That’s why you’re his Vǫrðr, you’ll be able to help him and protect him once the time comes.”

“In this time and age the correct word is Wraith and you know it.”

“Yes, however due to Dungeons and Dragons, your kind has gained an unfair stigma, one that I wish would have never started to begin with, but alas, it is unwise to change history and avoid those negative connotations to bleed in to begin with.”

“Anyways, have you only come here to stop me from trying to do something stupid or is there another reason?”

“Perspective as always Phantom.” At this the master of time, who now resembled an infant much like the Wraith in front of him, lowered himself until he was touching the roots with his own tail. “You know that young Daniel’s future is full of hardships, and those will make your job of protecting him difficult as well; what I came here for is to give you a warning, and something else as well that will help you once the time comes.”

At this Phantom stilled, looking straight in the only good eye Clockwork had. “... I’m listening.”

“Not so young Vǫrðr, the warning you’ll need to heed and remember is that soon this tree won’t be safe for you…” watching how the face of the young wraith paled, Clowork changed into his elder form and continued, “... the Fenton’s defenses might be lax and weak right now, but eventually by the time young Danny reaches the age of 10 the backyard will be within the range of detection of the security system.”

“B-but that’s not going to be healthy for me, being forced to be far from my tree when Danny is in his home where I won’t be able to protect him even then. How will I be able to accomplish my purpose when that happens?” a quivering voice was heard when Phantom opened his mouth, and even though he regained a semblance of control by the end of it, some tears could still be seen on the rim of his eyes.

“You’ll find a way Phantom, do remember where you come from when the time comes, and you’ll be able to keep yourself healthy alright.” Clockwork became an adult once more, and once the transformation was done he continued speaking. “What I’m giving you here is a gear that’ll be able to deactivate the house’s defenses, however do remember that it’s a one time use item, so don’t waste it.” That last part was said with such intensity that it caused Phantom to gulp and nod nervously as he received a gear with the initials CW etched inside it.

“The day Jack and Madelline Fenton finish the portal, and before it actually begins, you’ll need to be there present,” emphasized the Ancient, pointing with his staff to the Wraith, “if you want to properly protect your charge when the time comes, you’ll need to be next to him, and that gear will be the only thing that’ll allow you to get inside that house. It lasts for 24 hours, so that should let you do everything safe and sound and get used to the future.”

“Understood” replied Phantom, only to float down and phase said gear into the ground, next to the roots of his precious American Basswood. “Anything else before you leave?”

“Yes, this won’t be the last time we’ll meet Phantom, and I’m looking forward to the time where we find each other’s faces once more.”

“Thank you for your help Clockwork.”

“You’re welcome Phantom, goodbye.” And with that, the ghost left, taking with himself the medallion that was sitting on the torso of Phantom.

The years continued to fly by, and Phantom’s appearance changed alongside Danny Fenton’s, always being a carbon copy of himself with the differences in his hair, eyes and skin color. Eventually the day where the Fenton’s security system began reaching the backyard, Phantom became nervous and couldn’t think on what to do, until he recalled Clockwork's words and phased himself underground. Thankfully the defense system couldn’t detect anything underground, so he was safe there, but sadly he couldn’t defend Danny from anything that happened inside that house anymore; Phantom had no more option but to have faith that Danny had enough common sense to avoid dangerous objects and that Jazz would protect him whenever he could not.

Finally the time came though, where Jack and Maddie announced that they would turn on the ghost portal, and when they left the house dejected for their daily patrols. Jazz was outside at the time Danny invited Sam and Tucker inside, and Phantom knew that it was time; recovering the gear from its hiding place, he threw it at the house and, after waiting a few seconds, went inside in search of Danny. He eventually found him, but by then he was already donning his own hazmat suit. Phantom began floating beside him and put his own hand on top of his shoulder, and they both entered the portal together, even if only 1 of the 4 beings present really knew that. A flash of light, some molecules rearranged, and one fusion between a human and his Wraith later, and Danny Fenton-Phantom was created.

#Ectoberhaunt22 #EH Chaos #Day 5 #Wraith #Phantom #Clockwork #Phantom and Fenton began as different people and then fused #Fate is inevitable when you form part of a temporal cycle #Danny Fenton #Mention of death #Death #CW death #But it Danny's so does it really count?

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tapedsleeves · 2 years

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Favorite sound and favorite outfit (or a few if you have outfits for different seasons!)

Favorite sound

since I don't have a favorite outfit for different seasons (I wear the same clothes all year round, except with the addition of cardigans / sweaters from late fall to early spring: I'll do my favorite sound per season!

Spring: the sound of the bees in my mom's linden trees. My mom has 4 or 5 American Lindens (or American Basswood) - which are really really great for bees. They bloom early - from May to June - and bees *fucking love* their flowers. In the spring and early summer, these trees absolutely hum with bees (or at least my mom's do, since at least one of her trees has a hive in it).

Summer: this one has 2 - cicadas outside (I had one in my room once and it sounded like a fuckin demon) but outside they're just. I love the sound they make. the other one is the sound of someone swinging a weedeater. My mom had about 5 acres of lawn and had to weedeat all the time. Idk it became a comfort sound, I guess.

Fall: Rain! Rain rain rain. I love the sound of rain, and it rains a lot in the fall here.

Winter: the sound of Mariah Carey's -- (taken out by the bear sniper). for legal reasons, that's a joke. My actual favorite sound in the winter is the sound of snow falling or ice trucks scraping ice off the roads. Idk! Something about the peaceful silence of snow and then the just. massive engine scraping the asphalt. I just like it.

All Season - cats purring. It's just. so calming.

favorite outfit

Jeans. Jeans! I am not a big fan of shorts or skirts or dresses. I like high-rise skinny jeans. If my stomach doesn't have a lot of structure, it feels weird. If my skin touches, it sweats and I get a rash.

And then a big t-shirt - hard for me to find bc i'm not a small girl, but! I have one mustard yellow t-shirt that has "What would Dolly Do?" on it with a giant picture of Dolly Parton on it, and i love that shirt more than is reasonable.

No shoes. I'm from the south, fuck shoes (unless they're necessary). Also, for unrelated reasons, fuck socks.

ask list

#ask meme #aslfk this was so fun!#thank youuu!

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redwoodrecords · 2 years

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How is a movie night in the uni houses?

maple love fantasy and horror. will rewatch anything in those genres, can branch out but don’t. parker hates horror which is why everyone chooses them, they just bury their head in the shoulder of whoever is next to them. very fun!!! one film series that kennedy loves is the harry potter series so expect them to try and get everyone else to watch… also sad films. a lot of crying happens…. only person who has never cried is delia-jane but she is allegedly incapable of human emotion.

basswood implemented a voting rule so before each night, two members come up and do a little speech/presentation about what movie they want to watch and everyone else votes. once dylan came up and did a really emotionally charged speech about love and the human race, and how the two will forever be intertwined until we as a race cease to exist… the film was the bee movie 🤨 … everyone voted for it tho so #WinForDylan

hemlock love love love hate-watching things. also watching satire. will watch american psycho, will watch riverdale, will watch any niche random film you will pull out of your ass just so they can talk. it’s a family so they love curling up on the couch and shit talking horribly made media. sometimes they wanna watch sweet rom-coms and sometimes they wanna watch thrillers. depends on the day but expect talking. if u hate being distracted i would recommend watching the movie first alone and then watching it with everyone else so u can chat abt whats going on.

bonus:

hawthorn is just everyone rewatching the wolf of wall street, scarface and american psycho without understanding that it’s satire. it’s hell. they take it rlly seriously too. #FilmBros

willow is whatever is popular at the moment, which has been deigned as the new 365 movie but they don’t laugh at it. they watch it to take it seriously. also love watching sci-fi romances (it has to be that specific genre) and western films.

#thanks for the ask :)#houses #answered

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spacetimewithstuartgary · 2 years

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Voyageurs National Park It has been quite a journey through history for the land now called Voyageurs. In northern Minnesota near the Canadian border, Voyageurs National Park spans nearly 350 square miles (910 square kilometers), though about one-third of it is water. The main landmass is Kabetogama Peninsula, which is sandwiched between Rainy Lake and Kabetogama Lake. The Canadian border bisects Rainy Lake. Established in 1975, the park was named after French “travelers”—the fur traders who hunted and fished these waterways during the 18th century. However, there is evidence of humans coming and going through this area for at least 10,000 years. In the centuries since North America’s colonial era, the area has drawn waves of homesteaders, loggers, prospectors, and commercial fishers. Today, most travelers to the area are seeking rest and recreation on the park’s numerous waterways, 500 islands, and more than 650 miles (1,000 kilometers) of shoreline. Many visitors venture through the park by houseboat, as all of the campsites are accessible only from the water for much of the year. In the icy winter, some sites can also be reached by foot or snowmobile. Hiking and ski trails allow access to the interior of Kabetogama Peninsula. This image, acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 on October 13, 2017, shows fall foliage on the peninsula. This boundary ecosystem hosts both northern boreal species—like spruce, fir, aspen, and paper birch—and southern species—pines, oaks, maples, and basswood. In autumn and winter, with lengthening hours of nighttime darkness, many park visitors come for views of the aurora borealis, or “northern lights.” The park offers low levels of light pollution year-round to those also seeking clear views of the night sky. In 2020, Voyageurs was designated an International Dark Sky Park. Many smaller lakes dot the Kabetogama Peninsula and the smaller islands surrounding it; some of the islands have lakes that have islands of their own. This watery landscape is the result of glacial processes dating back thousands to millions of years and geologic processes going back billions. The park sits on the Canadian Shield, the center of the North American craton, or geologically stable core of the continent. The rocks here began forming during the Archean Eon, more than 2.5 billion years ago. During the Pleistocene ice ages, from about 2.5 million to 12,000 years ago, ice sheets up to 3 kilometers (2 miles) thick spanned much of Canada and the northern United States. The massive load of ice depressed the crust. The advances and retreats of glaciers scoured the land, gouging out depressions that would become lakes and bogs each time the ice melted. The hard bedrock below the land surface allows little drainage; hence the extensive waterways seen today. In the vast stretch of time between the eras of ancient bedrock and the massive glaciers, the area experienced episodes of mountain building, erosion, volcanism, and submergence beneath a shallow inland sea. NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

#space #science #earth observatory #NASA #news #minnesota

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yatescountyhistorycenter · 2 years

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He keeps me awake thinking about it

By Jonathan Monfiletto

Was the great Seneca chief Red Jacket born on the western shore of Cayuga Lake in the present-day hamlet of Canoga, or was this celebrated Native American orator born on the west branch of Keuka Lake in the present-day hamlet of Branchport? The correct answer is – well, it depends on who you ask.

And it probably doesn’t help matters that there are monuments to Red Jacket in both places and that both communities purport to be the birthplace of Red Jacket, also known as Otetiana (“Always Ready”) and, when he became chief, as Sagoyewatha (“He Keeps Them Awake”). But, it may be helpful to spell out the language of each of the monuments and then discuss the claims from there.

The Canoga monument, erected by the Waterloo Library & Historical Society in October 1891, reads: “Red Jacket. Sa-Go-Ya-Wat-Ha. (He Keeps Them Awake) The Orator of the Six Nations of Iroquois. A Chief of the Wolf Clan of the Senecas. Born Near This Spot 1750 [emphasis added] Died at Buffalo, N.Y. 1830”. The Branchport monument, established by the New York State Archaeological Association in October 1933 with ownership later transferred to the Yates County Genealogical and Historical Society, reads: “Beneath this monument lie the mortal remains of the mother of Sagoyewatha – Red Jacket, orator and leader of the Seneca Indians, whose domain once included the region about Keuka Lake. With his father and mother Red Jacket spent his boyhood near this spot [emphasis added] and here the family cabin stood, 1752. This, the actual site of the home of Red Jacket’s mother, by this monument is dedicated to her memory by the heirs of Dr. J.C. Wightman, to whom her burial place was disclosed by Asa Brown, a white man adopted by the Jacket family.”

If one considers only the language of the monument, then it might seem as if the issue of Red Jacket’s birthplace is pretty cut and dried. Clearly, or so it seems, Red Jacket was born in Canoga and then grew up in Branchport. Besides, the Branchport monument appears to pay tribute more to Red Jacket’s mother, Ahweyneyohn (“Blue Flower” or “Drooping Flower”), than to the chief himself and serves as her burial place rather than as his birthplace.

In fact, the birthplace-versus-hometown explanation is one put forth by Dr. Arthur C. Parker, director of the Rochester Museum and trustee of the State Historical Association, who delivered an address titled “The Unknown Mother of Red Jacket” during the unveiling of the Branchport monument on October 21, 1933. The Yates County History Center has a typed copy of this address in our subject files. Parker notes Red Jacket’s birthplace “has been the subject of much debate” but also notes “the Seneca people themselves have seemed to agree that it was at Canoga on the shores of Cayuga Lake.” According to Parker, Red Jacket’s parents went on an autumnal hunt trip to the land of the Cayugas – some sources indicate Red Jacket’s father was Cayuga while his mother was Seneca, making their son Seneca in the matriarchal tradition – where Red Jacket’s father possibly had a cabin in which Red Jacket’s mother may have given birth to him.

“Home, however, was the mother’s home at the little settlement upon the gentle slope on the western shore of Keuka, at the sand bar near the mouth of Basswood Gully,” Parker said in his address, further describing the area of Red Jacket’s boyhood home. In his manhood, according to Parker, Red Jacket “left the valley of Keuka to take up residence at Kanadesaga” – modern-day Geneva – “and still later to find a home at Docioweh, (the site of Buffalo),” where Red Jacket is buried and where yet another monument to him stands.

Parker’s explanation, and even the location and language of the monuments, makes complete sense to me, especially when I consider my own life. If I am ever important enough for someone to erect a monument in my honor, then they could place a monument in Potsdam, New York – the location of the hospital where I was born – and another monument in Morristown, New York – the location of the house in which I grew up. Still other monuments could be placed in Utica, Malone, Auburn, or Waterloo – locations where I have spent my adult years – or even in the sites where I conducted my military career. It makes sense to me, then, that one monument honors Red Jacket’s birthplace while another monument honors his boyhood home. So, can’t we all just get along?No, apparently we cannot. I wasn’t expecting any sort of controversy when I decided to research Red Jacket’s birthplace – though I did know about the two monuments and the seemingly competing claims – perhaps only a misunderstanding or a discrepancy. And I sit squarely on the fence in this debate; I previously worked at the Waterloo Library & History Society (where a co-worker and I produced a series of short videos on local history topics, including one about Red Jacket, which you can watch here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LK7tnXnjCQ - if you don’t mind a little shameless plug), and now I work for the Yates County History Center (I would add a shameless plug for our Tumblr blog about local history topics, but since you’re reading this you’re already there).

No, apparently we cannot. I wasn’t expecting any sort of controversy when I decided to research Red Jacket’s birthplace – though I did know about the two monuments and the seemingly competing claims – perhaps only a misunderstanding or a discrepancy. And I sit squarely on the fence in this debate; I previously worked at the Waterloo Library & History Society (where a co-worker and I produced a series of short videos on local history topics, including one about Red Jacket, which you can watch here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LK7tnXnjCQ - if you don’t mind a little shameless plug), and now I work for the Yates County History Center (I would add a shameless plug for our Tumblr blog about local history topics, but since you’re reading this you’re already there).

Yet, controversy there seems to be. In fact, the two most prominent histories of Yates County – Stafford C. Cleveland’s 1873 “History and Directory of Yates County” and Lewis Cass Aldrich’s 1892 “History of Yates County, N.Y.” – sling some mud in the direction of Canoga in asserting Branchport to be Red Jacket’s birthplace. Cleveland recounts an address Red Jacket supposedly gave in Geneva while journeying to Washington, D.C. with other Iroquois chiefs – around the time of President Andrew Jackson’s first inauguration – in which the Seneca chief stated his birthplace to be near the west branch of Keuka Lake and that he lived there until he and his parents moved to Kanadesaga when he was 12. Cleveland calls Canoga’s claim to Red Jacket’s birthplace “a statement rendered improbable, not only by the facts already stated, but by the further fact that Canoga was on the territory of the Cayugas.” Cleveland posits that Keuka may have been mistranslated as Canoga and calls Red Jacket “an illustrious character, whose place of nativity we may well be proud to claim.”

Aldrich calls Red Jacket “the celebrated son of Yates County” and asserts the Branchport claim while debunking the Canoga claim: “This [Canoga claim] was undoubtedly an error, for there can be produced satisfactory evidence to show that the famous chief was born in what is now the town of Jerusalem in this county, and not far from the hamlet called Branchport.” Aldrich references Red Jacket’s Geneva address and mentions the Canoga monument established the year before his book was published in further asserting the Seneca chief’s birthplace. Stating “Red Jacket, the famous Seneca chief, first saw the light of day on the shores of Keuka Lake, at a point near the village of Branchport,” Aldrich seems almost miffed that the people of Seneca County would have the audacity to assert otherwise and erect their monument: “It may be said, however, that the claims of Jerusalem to the places of birth of the chief were and are founded on the statements made by himself on the occasion of one of his speeches at Geneva.”

The History Center has a few books about Seneca County history in our research room, but none of them seems to discuss Red Jacket or his birthplace in any kind of depth. To investigate the Canoga claim, I turned to John E. Becker’s 1949 “A History of the Village of Waterloo,” which discusses Red Jacket’s place in the founding of the county and the village (special thanks to WLHS Executive Director Cyndi Park-Sheils for letting me borrow the Becker book for this project!). According to Becker, Red Jacket visited Waterloo on several occasions and during one of these visits mentioned six big trees where Native American councils took place and the importance of the decisions reached during these meetings. One such visit to Waterloo may have happened around the time of Red Jacket’s Geneva address, as Becker describes it as “the spring of 1829, soon after General Jackson became President” when Red Jacket spoke in Waterloo and pointed toward Canoga, saying “I was born over there by the big spring.” The Seneca chief subsequently pointed out the spot near Canoga where he was born at the request of a prominent Seneca Falls citizen who had a personal acquaintance with Red Jacket. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Becker does not mention the claim of Branchport being Red Jacket’s birthplace.

Within the History Center’s subject files, I found at least eight newspaper articles discussing Red Jacket’s birthplace. These are almost evenly divided between the two communities, giving a slight 5-3 edge toward Branchport. So, where is the real birthplace of Red Jacket? Well, as I like to say about historical figures, there is only one man who knows the truth and he has been dead nearly 200 years.

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