6/30/2023 0 Comments One of Windsor by Beth M. CarusoCaruso, tells the story of the first woman. One of Windsor, The Untold story of America’s first Witch Hanging, by Beth M. It has been rewarding, often painstaking, sometimes spiritual but extremely worth the wild ride from editing to cover design. “It’s never too late to acknowledge history and justice,” she said. For the past six months I have been helping bring to life Beth Caruso’s new book, One of Windsor, the Untold Story of America’s Witch Hanging. Nicole Grant Yonkman.Ĭaruso said she hopes Windsor’s efforts to clear the names of Young and Gilbert will be noticed by other communities that participated in similar hangings, and that they will take similar steps to seek pardons. Alice, a young woman prone to intuitive insights and loyalty to the only family she has ever known, leaves England for the rigid colony of the Massachusetts Bay in 1635 in hopes of reuniting with them again. “We realize that we were wrong and it’s important to say so publicly,” said the Rev. Caruso Publisher: Ladyslipper Press Pages: 358 Genre: Historical Fiction. The church supported the town council’s actions and went a step further, apologizing for its role in their deaths in a letter that was read to town officials and posted on the First Church Facebook page. About 300 people signed the petition, which also received the attention of officials at the First Church in Windsor.Īt the time of the witchcraft hysteria and subsequent the hangings, First Church was the only church in Windsor and would have been heavily involved in what happened to Young and Gilbert. Caruso’s name-clearing effort started last year with a petition in which she sought to have the town recognize the two women.
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