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

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.

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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.

This episode is 13:05 long.

This episode was published on Sep 11, 2025.

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