Candlemas Massacre: The Raid on York
Wandering around New England today, it’s difficult to imagine this place as the frontier and a war zone. But you don’t have to look far to see evidence of ancient atrocities. In 1692 one of those atrocities took place in York, Maine. 200-300 Penobscot Indians led by sachem Madockawando and Father Louis-Pierre Thury, a French missionary…