Note the water wheel. Many New England towns, with fast-flowing streams in hilly terrain, had mills to grind grain and later to manufacture stuff.
“I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Pequot and the (related) Mohegan Indians of that area.’’
— John Fusco, a screenwriter, producer, and television series creator who grew up in Prospect, Conn.
Classic Eastern Woodlands scene, in Borderland State Park, in Easton and Sharon, Mass.
The Mohegan Tribe's museum is said to be the oldest Indian-owned and -operated museum in America. Gladys Tantaquidgeon along with her brother, Harold and father, John, built the museum in 1931 in Uncasville, Conn., as a place to keep Mohegan treasures.
