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Show A30 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Friday, June16, 2000 : What’s in a Lake’s Name? More Than 40 Letters Massachusetts town drawsplentyoftourists withits Indian novelty THE Chaubunagungamaug band of Nipmucks, who were the first to fish here. The Nipmucks and their neighbors. the Nz 's and Moh ASSOCIATED PRESS WEBS! lass waters and s have beenattracting vacationers for generations, but it the name goggavogg manchz agoggchaubunagungamatigy on the map. The Indian name is solong that it encircles windowdeeals control.” as a resort in the 1920s and “30s Manchauggag” and Chau- reporterbeing paid by the word at the Webster Times, LawrenceDaly bunagungamaugg,-Nobody fish in facts the Webster Times. tried for more with more imagination than printed a version that has becomebetter knownthanthereal story. “But nothing he did made any difference,” Patenaude says. “It was completely beyond his They named this beautiful lake after the terms of that * eaty,” he wrote. “Chargoggagogg, “You fish on your side.’ ‘I fish on my Its blue ‘kling shoreline In Daly’s tale, the name arose from a summit meeting of two tribes living at opposite ends of the lake. the middle.”” Daly, who later becameeditor of than 20 years to debunk “fanciful tale.” ‘his Most of the summercampsthat ringed the lake during its heyday round homes. The trolley em —- is gone. And anold dance hall is now a condominium It is nowa placeofwaterskiers, ice boatraces. seeeimiaail oe complex. dock parties and maT iV BS) : have been replaced with year- in the winter — William Plowman/The Associated Press A misspelled sign in Webster, Mass., welcomesvisitors to the lake. andfire truck doors and requires three widetraffic lanesto spell out at the entrance ta the town beach and boat ramp. “We're big on Tbumper sticke porter Ed Patenaude. and ired re- Hundreds of tourists come to this central Massachusetts townof: about 1,500 just to posenext to the signs. And the name — spelled various ways since the 1600s has inspired poems, songs and tall tales Theofficial townversion has 45 letters (though one town sign paintergot carried away and added a few). That makesit the longest lake namein the UnitedStates and one of the world’s longest place names, according to the U.S. Geo: logical Survey. x Ethel Merman and RayBolger paid homagetoit ina song with a tom-tom ‘beat in the 1920s. And calls comein to TownHall fromall over the world, demanding to knowif it really exists and howto spellit. Whenthe state Legislature tried to eliminateafewofthe doubleg’s in 1949, outraged D (rey Gas Grill 22,000 BTU residents squelched the scheme. The uproar prompted a Webster poet to write: “Should lofty redwoods not grow Stainle: -] Burner: n-enam. taller? Lo,asI live, the g-full name shall nevergrowthe smaller.” Tongue-tied tourists andprinters of small maps can always opt for its colorless alias: “Lake Webster.” It’s not hard to pronounce wheri © 30,000 i 0 sq COOKIN: Includes uch broken downinto syllables. 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Colo., ie who ledthe study In 1965, there were 58,132 priests serving 46.6 million parishioners © 4 heads ¢ VCR Plus+ e24-hr. backup in the United States. Todaythere re 20 percent fewer priests and nearly a third more parishioners, the study reported. Fewer than 60 percent of the priests are active in parish work, and more than a quarterof Catholie parishes currently lack a full time priest The situation is expected to worsen dueto the rising average age of priests currently 557 for those assigned by dioceses and resulting retirements and deaths, thestudy said The only functians limited to XN w oe priests to -preside at baptisms. marriages and funerals, and to participate in other parish functions Mini System le 5-CD) changer © 5 direct option: play: ke DVD/Video CD/ Adi priests are celebration of Mass and granting absolution from sins, But in practice, Catholics expect SOWXPOS, CD P’ *Optical digital output «| specc DVD RV Sm scan VM-LAS0 The study also pointed to a shortage of replacements. Cur. rently about 3,500 candidates are studying in graduate-level semi naries, down more than 50 percent from 1965. 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