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College Park Wild: Down yonder in the pawpaw patch

By Rick Borchelt Welcome to “ha’siminikiisfwa,” or pawpaw moon in the Shawnee tongue — the month we know as September. Along the region’s woodland rivers and streams, and in our sheltered coves and valleys, pawpaw trees are dropping fat, fragrant fruit during this brief autumn window. The pawpaw’s a strange tree with strange tropical fruit, […]

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