Haverhill Mayor Names Native American Commission to Honor Earliest Residents whav.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from whav.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published: 5/15/2021 8:00:23 AM
In the ongoing effort to reinterpret the Hannah Duston story, one important facet in the task of determining what really took place has not been mentioned. Not only is what happened, when and why very difficult to document, but even where the killings took place is unknown. Concord historian and city mayor Charles Corning was the first to question the location in a lecture he gave in 1890.
More recently, in a well-documented 2015
Historical New Hampshire article entitled “Following in Hannah Duston’s Footsteps: Reexamining the Evidence,” Denise Ortakales made a case for the Cowass (Cohas) area on the upper Connecticut River being more likely the site, basing her suggestion on the routes most commonly taken by Indians with their captives on the way to Canada, and a statement in one of the few accounts of the event from the time, which described it as taking place about 150 miles from Haverhill and another 150 miles from the Natives’ destina
Duckler: Controversial statue stands as an example of our nation’s past and our pursuit of truth
The Hannah Duston statue in Boscawen still has the red paint that was part of a recent vandalism. GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff
The Hannah Duston statue in Boscawen still has the red paint that was part of a recent vandalism. GEOFF FORESTER Monitor staff
April’s monthly meeting was cordial by all accounts.
All 13 members of The Hannah Duston Advisory Committee participated, seeking the truth about the granite figure standing under Route 4 in Boscawen. Or at least admitting that no one really knows what happened in 1697.
Haverhill Recommends Removing Hatchet from Hannah Duston Statue amren.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from amren.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Originally published on May 1, 2021 2:52 pm
A statue of a woman towers over a patch of daffodils in a city park in Haverhill, Mass. Scowling ferociously, she leans forward, gripping a hatchet.
The statue honors Hannah Duston, a 17th-century English colonist who is believed to have killed 10 Native Americans in order to escape captivity during King William s War. It has become a flashpoint in the country s ongoing debate about racist monuments, as locals reevaluate the Duston legend. That hatchet is supposedly the one that she actually used to, quote unquote, scalp the warriors, says Ron Peacetree of the Haverhill Historical Commission.