Library board kills proposal to rename Mount Ascutney
The Vermont Board of Libraries struck down a petition Tuesday to rename Mount Ascutney, citing little local support for a proposal to call the peak Mount Kaskadenak — an Abenaki word — and noting that the mountain’s current moniker already derives from the Abenaki language.
Robert Hutchins submitted a petition to change the mountain’s name in 2016, and has argued that its current name is not what the Abenaki, a Native American tribe, called the mountain before English speaking settlers arrived.
Hutchins has presented evidence suggesting that “Ascutney” is an Anglicanized version of the Abenaki word “Ascutegnik,” which means “meeting of the waters,” The Valley News reported.
He instead says that Kaskadenak, a word that translates to “mountain of the rocky summit,” is the peak’s true name.
Read more: https://vtdigger.org/2018/07/17/vermont-library-board-kills-proposal-rename-mount-ascutney/
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