Croche

In my first recollection of the country of Arbor Croche, which is sixty years ago, there was nothing but small shrubbery here and there in small patches, such as wild cherry trees, but the most of it was grassy plain; and such an abundance of wild strawberries, raspberries and blackberries that they fairly perfumed the air of the whole coast with fragrant scent of ripe fruit.

History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

He wrote about music as Monsieur Croche, antidilettante (a personage fabricated after the Monsieur Teste of his friend Paul Valéry); he indited 'proses lyriques' and set them; and he carried on with all those close to him a correspondence phrased in racy language.

The Tradition of Sensibility Thomson, Virgil 1965

Croche at the place now called Seven Mile Point, where there was a large village of Mush-co-desh.

History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

Drummond's Island and came to Arbor Croche expressly to act as missionary in the absence of the priest.

History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

Arriving at Arbor Croche, where our big wigwam would be waiting for us -- of which

History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

It is generally believed among the Indians of Arbor Croche that this wholesale murder of the Ottawas by this terrible disease sent by the British people, was actuated through hatred, and expressly to kill off the Ottawas and Chippewas because they were friends of the French Government or French King, whom they called "Their Great Father."

History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

The whole coast of Arbor Croche, or Waw-gaw-naw - ke-zee, where their principal village was situated, on the west shore of the peninsula near the Straits, which is said to have been a continuous village some fifteen or sixteen miles long and extending from what is now called Cross Village to Seven-Mile Point (that is, seven miles from Little Traverse, now Harbor Springs), was entirely depopulated and laid waste.

History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

Arbre, a tree; and Croche, something very crooked or hook-like.

History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

It is on this chicken coop that the music is perched: two clarinets, a hurdy-gurdy, a cracked trumpet, and a grumbling bassoon -- five instruments whose harmonious movements are regulated by the crutch of Monsieur Double-Croche, a lame dwarf, who is called the leader of the orchestra.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829 Various

In the fall of 1827, my father left his subjects at Arbor Croche proper, now Middle Village, in charge of his brother,

History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird