« :: Sirens of Perspective | Main | :: Happy Birthday to No One's Home »
September 20, 2005
:: Camp Meggisi Goes Private
I guess it has taken me a week or so, but I hate bad news so much. The namesake of this website (kinda) is undergoing some major changes: Camp Meggisi has been sold!! If any of you have checked out other parts of meggisi.org, there is a section about Camp and Lake Meggisi that describes what I am referring to. L&M Fly-Ins has sold Meggisi to a private buyer.
Sadly, we were notified after we thought we would have one more trip to Meggisi in 2006. It had been my father's 20th trip going up, and my 10th this last May. I will take it as a sign from God, as we knew that at least Dad's trips were numbered, due to his health. But...
Meggisi means much much more to me and my family and friends than just a lake and fly-in fishing camp. If it wasn't that way, I wouldn't have bought the domain name! So, soon enough I will be modifying and removing some portions of the website voluntarilly referring to the camp. However, I will be rewriting the description of the website and narrative about Meggisi.
Oddly enough, I had another "epiphany" about our namesake, or at least the name "meggisi":
I spent my first layover in Thief River Falls in about 2 years recently, where we now stay at the Seven Clans Casino, Waterpark, and Hotel. The "Seven Clans" are the tribes that make up the Red Lake Ojibwe nation: bear, turtle, bullhead (fish), mink, eagle, pine marten (sable) and the kingfisher. The meeting rooms in the hotel are named (in Ojibwe) after the clans...the one near the front desk was Mi-Gi-Zi (eagle). Although I have always pointed out on this website that "meggisi"="migizi", I needed a reminder myself. The sight of the sign over the conference room door put a smile on my face.
Posted by pierre at September 20, 2005 11:48 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.meggisi.org/mt4.01/mt-tb.cgi/239