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Old 06-11-2014, 11:29 AM   #44
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Originally Posted by BroadHopper View Post
There is one at the Laconia Library. You can give it an Indian name.

My neighbor on the lake, called his cottage 'Skungamug Tenega' I always wonder what it means. I can never find the two words in the dictionary. He was an English Professor at Dartmouth College.
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Here is the best I could find

Skungamug
From Abenaki (Algonquian), perhaps meaning 'a fish- spearing place'

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