SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Statues of Hannah Duston face a reckoning in two New England communities. Duston was a 17th-century English colonist who was said to have been captured by Native Americans who then killed 10 of them in order to escape. WBUR's Amelia Mason has this report, which includes descriptions of violence.
AMELIA MASON, BYLINE: The statue of Hannah Duston in Haverhill, Mass., towers over a patch of daffodils in the city's G.A.R. Park. Legend says that in 1697, Duston killed 10 Native American warriors who'd kidnapped her. The statue depicts her holding a hatchet.