brooding on conquest--then something more encouraging

Here is the other thing about Canajoharie: It is the site of battle and conquest.



If you read its Wikipedia page, you'll see that it's near the site of a Mohawk town of the same name. That's a weird nicety: preserving the place names of towns you've conquered and whose inhabitants you've driven off or worse.

This whole country is built on conquest, a fact that isn't acknowledged very often.

. . . Okay, here is something more cheering.

From Nunavut, Canada: a company that is working on putting vi...