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Instead, she believes, it served as a base camp for several exploratory expeditions up and down the coast, perhaps as far south as the Gulf of St. Lawrence. "We know this because of the butternuts," she says. "The closest places they grow are east of Quebec near the Gulf of St. Lawrence or in eastern New Brunswick. They are too heavy for birds to carry, and they can't float. And we know the Norse considered them a delicacy...
Fitzhugh offers another theory. "I think they recognized that they had found wonderful resources but decided they couldn't defend themselves and were unable to risk their families to stay there," he says. "Imagine 30 Norsemen in a boat on the St. Lawrence meeting a band of Iroquois. They would have been totally freaked...
...St. Etienne...
...familiar luscious sound of Sarah Cracknell's voice fills my headphones as I turn on the new St. Etienne album, The Sound of Water. The British pop trio with the un-British sound has been together for more than a decade now, and it seems like they get better with every album. This latest recording, soon to be released on the Mantra label, follows 1998's fabulous Good Humor. It is a bit more subdued than the previous album, with fewer outright pop hits, but the songs play tight, and various electronic beats are mixed very well with lounge-style...
Cracknell and St. Etienne have been floating among semi-major record labels for several years, and their freedom from the major labels can be clearly heard in their music. Their personal, honest style has been maintained throughout the years, which is apparent from their constantly evolving tastes and from the thorough quality of The Sound of Water, including the album's best tracks "Heart Failed" and "How We Used to Live." A -Adam J. Ross...