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Originally Posted by BelleZora

This article about the extermination of the Abenaki was just featured on the Indian Country Today Media Network.

Thank you for the link, Belle. Most interesting.

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

And what's he doing skulking around that house with a torch?

It always seemed to me, as I looked at it as I stood and stood and stood in line at the post office, as if it implied that he planned to fire the house. Another instance of that "cruel adversity" over which the noble colonials triumphed. And didn't inflict, oh, no.

The pictures in the mural are dreadful and look dated even for their own time. Unfortunately, the attitude seems to be that after 50 years, the picture itself has the heft of history, so there it will remain, along with the marker at the town landing.

I love the quote about how when the Indians win, it's a massacre. Spot-on, here in the northeast.