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

Off the Path from New York to Boston by WSHU

Sep 11, 202513:05News & Politics

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 is...

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Looking for the Original "Podunk Town"... In Connecticut is an episode from Off the Path from New York to Boston by WSHU. The origins of the word "podunk" are shrouded in history. In the Algonquin language, it most likely meant a boggy plac...

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Published Sep 11, 2025, 13:05 long, audio available.