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Home of Great Spirit

March 31, 2014March 31, 2014 Patrick Hummel, Mount Washington State Park 2 Comments

“I see the stanzas rise around me, verse upon verse, far and near, like the mountains from Agiocochook…” – Henry David Thoreau, 1841   1841 was one of many Mt. Washington trips for Thoreau, who knew of the mountain’s previous name of Agiocochook, a Native American word loosely translating to “Home of the Great Spirit.”  […]

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Monadnock Weekly Report 06.07.13

June 7, 2013June 7, 2013 Patrick Hummel, Mount Washington State Park Leave a comment

06.07.13 “We were left alone with the night hawks…their dry and unmusical, yet supermundane and spirit-like voices and sounds gave fit expression to this rocky mountain solitude…it was a thrumming of the mountain’s rocky chords; strains from the music of Chaos, such as were heard when the earth was rent and these rocks heaved up.” […]

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