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can be properly directed for the benefit of everyone. So let us not doze while decay sets in. Let us have action on zoning.
Edward A. Harris
Huntly
Letter To Editor
Dear Sarah, The picture on the front page of the Rappahannock News last week was excellent; a wonderful view of the area. After such a nice statement, I must correct you» your title is wrong. Indian Summer isn’t here. It comes in November after the leaves have all (or nearly all) fallen from the trees. It was a time given Indian squaws (the lazy ones) to finish up fall work before winter really started. Everyone won't agree with this, but I know it has never failed to come, in time past and I don’t think this year will be any different.
Margaret Ann Peck
Herndon, Va.
She is my school teaching sister. — Editor.
Research discloses that Indian Summer comes late in the autumn and follows Squaw Winter, which is the first really cold snap of the year It is caused by a mass of tropical air which remains stagnant. Weather is clear, mild and the horizon is hazy There are different theories as to how it got its name. One is that the Indians told the settlers that this period would come each year; another settlers said it gave the hostile indians an o p p o r t u n i t y for more attacks on them and they believed the haze came from the Indian’s fires on the praries.
In Europe it is generally known as Old Wives Summer or Second Summer. The English and Germans call it All Hallows Summer, St. Martin’s Summer or St. Luke’s Summer. The Polish call it God’s Gift to Poland. The Indians called it a special gift from a favorite god, Cautantowit, god of the southwest. __ Editor
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