“Snapshot Saturday”

Saturday, 19 November, 1763: Mi-ki-naak, the Snapping Turtle, paused in late afternoon and pondered whether to continue the still-hunt for venison to the north or cross the tiny valley and search to the west. Experience, coupled with the unseasonable snow, kept the backcountry woodsman away from the cutting winds in the bottomland surrounding the Riviere aux Raisins.