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Looking for the Original "Podunk Town"... In Connecticut

Wood Memorial Library's "Nowashe Village" in South Windsor, Conn. The Nowashe is another name for the Podunk.
Davis Dunavin
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Wood Memorial Library's "Nowashe Village" in South Windsor, Conn. The Nowashe is another name for the Podunk.

The origins of the word "podunk" are shrouded in history. In the Algonquin language, it most likely meant a boggy place, a swamp or a junction of streams and rivers. But we now use it to mean a small, unimportant, and isolated place. There was also a tribe called the Podunk, one of many who lived and fished on the Connecticut River.

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.