Burn the Witch!

Outlined in black, a woman’s leg and a heart appear on the tombstone of Colonel Jonathan Buck, the man who founded the small town of Bucksport, Maine, in the year 1762. Legends say Colonel Buck burned a woman at the stake because she was a witch. As the flames leaped higher, she cursed him and his descendants. She got her revenge by reaching beyond the grave, and through time, to inscribe her leg and a heart on his tombstone. The truth may be quite different. Ezekiella Twiddle, age...
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Outlined in black, a woman’s leg and a heart appear on the tombstone of Colonel Jonathan Buck, the man who founded the small town of Bucksport, Maine, in the year 1762. Legends say Colonel Buck burned a woman at the stake because she was a witch. As the flames leaped higher, she cursed him and his descendants. She got her revenge by reaching beyond the grave, and through time, to inscribe her leg and a heart on his tombstone. The truth may be quite different. Ezekiella Twiddle, age fourteen, may have lived the real story when she touched the Colonel’s tombstone, lost her balance, and fell through time to Colonial America and the year 1774…