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Jimmy Snyder
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Next week I'm packing up the family and heading for Laconia, NH. We'll be near, but not on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee. Winnipesaukee is, of course, a Native American name reputed to mean either "The Smile of the Great Spirit", "Beautiful Water in a High Place", "Lakes Region", "Good Smooth Water at Outlet", or "Land Around Lake", depending upon which person who doesn't know that you ask. To me it means "Many Fond Childhood Memories" as my grandparents lived there and ran a cottage resort in the summers. Actually, their place was on the shores of Lake Winnisquam. That's also a Native American name that means "Kangaroo". We'll spend a week in a timeshare resort that we got in exchange for our unit in Fallujah during the bombing season. What are your summer vacation plans?