We spoke to New Milford Rep Bill Buckbee on Wednesday (5/31/23) who had this to say: It's important to some people and that is the important part of what we do, right? If it's important to somebody, it's something we have to pay attention to, that's our job. I support it and I get it and one of the things you do in this job is you learn a ton of things about things you never thought you'd know.
Alse Young has also been written about under the name Acsah and Alice but whatever she's called, her legacy is dreadful, the first life taken for a pointless cause. Young was killed in 1647, four decades before the Salem Witch Trials began.