According to Wikipedia, Cohocton's name "is derived from an Iroquois phrase for 'log in the water.'" Not knowing anything about Iroquois language or culture, I wonder why there is a phrase, rather than a word, for this concept? Because it is important? Or is this simply a misnomer?
I imagine a log in the water. It could signify many things: a bridge, a dam, a boat. Elliptically—kinds of water: still, rushing, deep, and—ponds, rivers, streams and oceans; ripples, currents, waves and tides. Parsing further, I think about power and ways to contain it: surmounting it, blocking it or giving in. Weight, buoyancy.
The windmills are forbidding yet compelling. I would not want to gaze at them every day from my back window.
My family owns property nearby in Prattsburgh. Wind turbines are a hot button issue for them and many others. Cohoctonfree.com is an activist web site "Seeking to keep our hills and sky turbine-free."
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