Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native Americans
The statue is the earliest publicly funded monument to a woman in the US.
It stands in the out-of-the-way town of Boscawen, New Hampshire. It shows a woman holding a hatchet in one hand and a fistful of scalps in the other. Her name is Hannah Duston.
Continue reading…Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native AmericansThe statue is the earliest publicly funded monument to a woman in the US.It stands in the out-of-the-way town of Boscawen, New Hampshire. It shows a woman holding a hatchet in one hand and a fistful of scalps in the other. Her name is Hannah Duston. Continue reading…