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BOSTON — The fierce monuments honor an English colonist who, legend has it, slaughtered her Native American captors after the gruesome killing of her baby.But the statues to Hannah Duston — one in Massachusetts where she grips a hatchet and another in...
By WHAV Staff | Haverhill Board of Health Chairman Peter Carbone. (WHAV News file photograph.) As Massachusetts relaxes its outdoor mask mandate tomorrow, Haverhill plans to remove mandatory mask signs downtown and in public parks. Haverhill Mayor James J. Fiorentini gave the order Wednesday, noting Gov. Charlie Baker’s order that masks are no longer required outside when social distancing is possible. The mayor said he is also asking the city’s Board of Health to modify its past orders to be consistent with new statewide rules. Health Board Chairman Peter Carbone said the date and time ...
BOSTON (AP) â The fierce monuments honor an English colonist who, legend has it, slaughtered her Native American captors after the gruesome killing of her baby. But the statues to Hannah Duston â one in Massachusetts where she grips a hatchet and another in New Hampshire where she clutches a bundle of scalps â are being reconsidered amid the nationwide reckoning on racism and controversial public monuments. Historians, Native Americans and even some of Duston’s descendants argue that many of the details of the 17th-century story are lost in the telling, such as the fact that ...
Statues to hatchet-wielding colonist Hanna Duston reconsidered A statue of Hannah Duston, dated 1879, stands in the Grand Army of the Republic Park, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Haverhill, Mass., meant to honor the English colonist who, legend has it, slaughtered her Native American captors after the gruesome killing of her baby. But the statue in Haverhill, and another of Duston in New Hampshire, are being reconsidered amid the nationwide reckoning on racism and controversial public monuments. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Steven Senne A detail of a statue of Hannah Duston, dated 1879, shows a h...
Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Statues to hatchet-wielding colonist reconsidered Statues in Massachusetts and New Hampshire honoring an English colonist who took a hatchet to her Native American captors after the death of her baby are being reconsidered By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press April 29, 2021, 9:56 PM • 4 min read The Associated Press A statue of Hannah Duston, dated 1879, stands in the Grand Army of the Republic Park, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Haverhill, Mass., meant to honor the English colonist who, legend has it, slaughtered her N...