Some guys just don’t know when they’re not wanted. Take Captain John Mason, a founder of Hartford. He is now known as an Indian killer by people who have learned the truth about the 1637 massacre in Mystic, Connecticut of 500 Pequot men, women, children, and elders.
His nine-foot, two-ton stone likeness was voted out of Mystic in 1996 and moved to Windsor. Now in 2021 he is being evicted from that town as well. Soon he will vacate the premises atop the Connecticut State Capitol, thanks to three years of hard work by State Sen. Cathy Osten.
Why can’t John Mason and his defenders take a hint?
Polar Bears take the plunge or don’t | The Daily Gazette
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Of the few hundred people who ran into Lake George on Tuesday at Shepard Park beach, the two who sta Of the few hundred people who ran into Lake George on Tuesday at Shepard Park beach, the two who stayed in longest were brothers from Albany County, Brian and Bill Hart. Smoking or chewing on cigars, wearing old fashioned pilot’s and football helmets, they seemed blithely unconcerned about the temperature. “We take a lot of tequila,” said Bill, explaining their training regimen. Brian said eating helped, too, contributing to the middle-aged brothers’ considerable waistlines and powers of endurance.
York in American history: The rise and fall of Edward Godfrey
Portsmouth Herald
Notes: The story of the ruination of Edward Godfrey is a classic tale that reads like a Dickens novel. Did he deserve his fate of losing his land and dying in prison or was he just a victim of the fluid, fickle twists of history? The details in James Kences compelling story suggest Godfrey may have brought it about himself, having lost touch with the times and his fellow adventurers.
By James Kences The first that ever built or settled there. So wrote an indignant Edward Godfrey to the political leadership of Massachusetts in the autumn of 1654. In this letter, composed on the eve of his return to England, a trip from which he would never return, Godfrey described how the land he rightfully possessed had been taken over by his neighbors.