3mt-4: nuclear family

Before John Greenleaf Whittier strolled along the road through Pleasant Valley, and before the first ferry transported travelers from Boston to points north, and before the first Europeans settled the banks of the Merrimack River, bands of Central Abenakis settled on its shores from the Atlantic to Lake Winnepesaukee. They were called the Pennacook Indians, a loose confederation of tribes held together by family interrelationships and the river. The Pawtucket tribe lived on the southern part of the Merrimack, from Haverhill to Newburyport, and would have called the surrounding area home. It’s since changed:

Still, some places once occupied by Indians are now unrecognizable as such. A site where Pawtucket Indians once carefully buried their dead today is a nuclear power plant in Seabrook, N.H. Other former Indian encampments are now a trash incinerator in Haverhill, the Plaistow, N.H., dump and a construction company in Kingston, N.H.

So much for three downed maple trees.

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three maple trees
-part one
-part two
-part three a
-part three b