What's in a name?

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Windsor native petitions to rename Ascutney Mountain

By TORY JONES BONENFANT

toryb@eagletimes.com

Robert Hutchins, a petitioner to change the name of Ascutney Mountain to Kaskadenak, stands along New Hampshire Route 12A in front of a section of the the monadnock where Abenaki families frequented the land. — TORY JONES BONENFANTASCUTNEY — Hartland resident Robert Hutchins is leading an effort to change the name of Ascutney Mountain to Kaskadenak, the Abenaki word for “wide mountain.”

Hutchins is working with Koasek Chief Paul (Gwilawato) Bunnell and the Koasek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation, New England and Eastern Canada Branch, to change the name of the landmark monadnock to better honor early Native American settlers to the area, he said in an interview on Wednesday, Sept. 14.

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