While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Mattabesec (from massa-sepuēs-et,
'at a [relatively] great rivulet or brook. Trumbull). An important
Algonquian tribe of Connecticut, formerly occupying both banks of
Connecticut river from Wethersfield to Middletown or to the coast and
extending westward indefinitely. The Wongunk, Pyquaug, and Montowese
Indians were apart of this tribe. According to Ruttenber they were a part
of the Wappinger, and perhaps occupied the original territory from which
colonies went out to overrun the country as far as Hudson river. The same
author says their jurisdiction extended over all south west Connecticut,
including the Mahackeno, Uncowa, Paugusset, Wepawaug, Quinnipiac,
Montowese, Sukiang, and Tunxis.
