Welcome to The Friday 56 hosted by Freda’s Voice.
This is a really fun meme!
The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader and find a sentence or a few (no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.
Then go over to Freda’s Voice and leave your link so we can visit your 56!
My 56 for this week is from:
One Of Windsor
The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging
by Beth M. Caruso
Genre: Historical Fiction
From Page 56 in the paperback.
It was a frontier like no other Alice had imagined.
As native people came into Boston to bring furs to traders that filled the returning ships, Alice looked on, mesmerized. Bronzed Indian men wearing buckskins and moccasins for attire, with adornments of feathers and strings of wampum, seemed exotic to her. She could not help but find them beautiful.
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Read on if you want to know more.
Synopsis
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. Finally settling in Windsor, Connecticut, she encounters the rich American wilderness and its inhabitants, her own healing abilities, and the blinding fears of Puritan leaders which collide and set the stage for America’s first witch hanging, her own, on May 26, 1647. This event and Alice’s ties to her beloved family are catalysts that influence Connecticut’s Governor John Winthrop Jr. to halt witchcraft hangings in much later years. Paradoxically, these same ties and the memory of the incidents that led to her accusation become a secret and destructive force behind Cotton Mather’s written commentary on the Salem witch trials of 1692, provoking further witchcraft hysteria in Massachusetts forty-five years after her death. The author uses extensive historical research combined with literary inventions, to bring forth a shocking and passionate narrative theory explaining this tragic and important episode in American history.
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Ooo I saw this one and was curious about it. Sounds good and I look forward to hearing what you think.
sherry @ fundinmental Friday Memes
I was curious too. Couldn’t resist:)
Oh this one looks interesting, hope you are liking it. 🙂
It sounds fascinating and I’ve been wanting to read a historical:)
This sounds so interesting! I never really considered that there had to be a first witch hanging but of course there was! I wonder how it all got started, great read for October as well!
Thanks for stopping by my Friday Reads
That’s what fascinated me too. And the author!
This sounds like an interesting story – not sure it’s my kind of story right now but it does sound pretty good. Thanks for visiting my Friday meme earlier
I’m excited to see where this goes. And I like the historical aspect. The author did extensive research.
Such a deplorable time in history! Finding out more about the events does intrigue me. Thanks for sharing…and for visiting my blog.
I shudder just thinking about what those women went through.
That would be a fascinating story!! I added you to the Linky. Happy weekend!
Thanks, Freda. I forgot to add it after leaving my comment. LOL
Great description in your 56 excerpt. I’m interested.
My Friday post features The Midwife of Hope River.
I had to share this book. It really fascinates me.
Interesting one. Have a great weekend!
Sure is:)
The title alone has sold me! 🙂
Lauren @ Always Me
Yep. Caught me too:)
Sounds like an intruiging book Here is my 56: http://shoshireads.weebly.com/home/friday-566874505
I’m quite curious about it:)
This is something I’d definitely be interested in reading. I’ve always found the witch trials interesting. Happy reading!
Me too! This promises to be a good one:)