Mystery photo
(See the answer in the update line below! — Dave)
Here’s a test of your Chinook Jargon-related geographic knowledge:
Can you identify this place?
Thanks to the kind reader who submitted this via cell phone! (To be named when I reveal the answer to our question.)
–D. Douglas ROBERTSON, PhD–
Update, 04/28/2013: The answer is indeed Memaloose Island/ Memaloose Illahee, as David Lewis got right away. (See comments.) Thanks to my sister Denise for sending this snapshot from the scene!
David Gene Lewis has this guess in a comment on Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/dave.robertson.391/posts/946503413636?comment_id=2863236&offset=0&total_comments=1)
“is that memaloose”
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Eric Michael Bernando also guessed over at Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/42062011536/10151356560981537/?notif_t=group_comment)
Memaloose island in the Columbia… You can see the headstone of Oregon’s first representative to Washington DC! […] I got the person mixed up with someone else… I think his name is Victor Trelet or Trevett or something.
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More comments from Facebook —
(https://www.facebook.com/dave.robertson.391?ref=tn_tnmn)
John Robertson Rock Lake maybe?
Friday at 5:33pm · Like
Sarah Thomason I could not possibly be more ignorant about CJ-related places. This one is certainly beautiful, though.
Friday at 6:29pm · Like
John Robertson please don’t make me start listing all CJ place names with the word lake in them! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinook_Jargon_placenames)
List of Chinook Jargon placenames – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The following is a listing of placenames from the Chinook Jargon, generally from…See More
Yesterday at 9:53am · Like · Remove Preview
Denise Rojo Ooh! Ooh! I know the answer! I can feel it in my bones!
Yesterday at 6:37pm via mobile · Like
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