Episode 43: The Wood Devil

In Episode 43 we travel to the far northern reaches of what the maps now call Coös County, New Hampshire, where the White Mountains give way to the Great North Woods and the land presses against the Canadian border, the forests are older than the roads that try to cut them. The name Coös itself comes from the Abenaki language, rooted in words for the white pines or the place of pines, a recognition that this was never empty wilderness. For the Abenaki peoples and related Wabanaki communities, these woods were part of a living world of relationships, stories, and responsibilities that stretched back through the Ancient Age, when humans and other beings still walked closer to one another.

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