Using a little creative translation license, if the word ‘Muschopauge’ means cool, clear, and deep, I’m not sure I really fit it as I don’t see myself as “cool” in a fashion or societally “hip” sense, and I don’t always communicate concisely and clearly, or think of myself as being a particularly “deep” philosophical thinker… but I do live on Muschopauge Road so we still have that connection.
Another reason for that choice as a blog name, though, is that “Muschopauge Musings” is very unlikely to already have been taken for a blog title…
Incidentally, while researching the meaning of the word “Muschopauge”, I also learned that the Native Americans that lived in Rutland were of the Naquad tribe, of Algonguian heritage. They maintained a village on Muschopauge Hill in early Rutland history and that their herb gardens were still growing and blooming just north of Muschopauge Pond as recently as the 1970’s. Also, Muschopauge Pond is spring fed (there are no streams flowing into it) and it is close to 100 feet deep in some places.
Note: another history book says Muschopauge is a Native American word for muskrat, but I think the J.W. Lewis History of Worcester County book makes a more compelling case and I’m going with that one.
I’ll send out another reminder, but you can find the blog on the www.mesafarmrutland.com website and then click on “Muschopauge Musings”. Let me know by around April 20th if you want to continue with the email updates; and feel free to share the blog address with others.
Meanwhile, have a very blessed Easter. Jesus has risen. Hallelujah!
Clear, cool, and deep Muschopauge Pond, taken early Easter morning.
