What Really Happened at Turners Falls? The Story of a Massacre

The monument to Captain William Turner proclaims a great colonial victory, 350 years ago on May 19, 1676: this panel discussion tells you the truth, based on a 13-year, National Park Service-funded investigation. David Brule, president of the Nolumbeka Project, archaeologist David Naumec, and Liz Cold Wind Santana-Kiser, tribal historic preservation officer of the Chaubunagungamaug Band of Nipmuck Indians, all played pivotal roles in this groundbreaking investigation. In this panel, they’ll explain what the evidence tells us, and why and how we need to remember the past differently.

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