Interpretive Signage for the Toonerville Trail at Springfield, VT

Working with Barbara Schultz from the Town of Springfield’s Trail Committee, Atowi contributed an audio file linked to a QR code, relating Native heritage and Abenaki vocabulary within the narrative provided on the signage. A webpage is in development with this information also.

The trail follows the trolley roadbed of the former Springfield Electric Railway, later the Springfield Terminal Railway, along Mkazatekw, the Black River, from its confluence with Kwenitekw, the Connecticut River. Mkazatekw was a major traveled way for thousands of years, moving west from the Long River toward the Water Between (Bitawbagw - Lake Champlain). The landscape here remains vitally important to the People who are connected to these places.

Link to the audio on YouTube on the Springfield Trails channel.