As Our Mothers Made Us

Emily & Hilda, #0

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  • Before
  • you
  • met
  • them,
  • Katherine
  • and
  • Emily
  • were
  • awesome…Emily
  • Hampstead
  • and
  • her
  • mother
  • Katherine
  • have
  • a
  • reason
  • for
  • their
  • phenomenal
  • athletic
  • ability
  • and
  • their
  • supercharged
  • immune
  • systems.
  • They
  • are
  • the
  • direct
  • descendants
  • of
  • a
  • half-dozen
  • women
  • of
  • the
  • Bear
  • totem
  • who
  • survived
  • the
  • epidemics
  • of
  • the
  • seventeenth
  • century,
  • and
  • hid
  • in
  • the
  • Great
  • Salt
  • Marsh
  • North
  • during
  • the
  • Colonial
  • era.
  • European
  • reporters
  • gave
  • 1633
  • as
  • the
  • date
  • of
  • the
  • disappearance
  • of
  • the
  • Pawtucket,
  • but
  • the
  • six
  • women
  • organized
  • themselves
  • into
  • an
  • unrecognized
  • band
  • that
  • successfully
  • maintained
  • their
  • culture
  • for
  • four
  • centuries
  • while
  • moving
  • among
  • the
  • general
  • population.This
  • collection
  • of
  • short
  • stories
  • follows
  • the
  • adventures
  • of
  • generations
  • of
  • brave
  • Pawtucket
  • women
  • who
  • chose
  • not
  • to
  • be
  • recognized
  • and
  • thus
  • avoided
  • having
  • the
  • patriarchal
  • hierarchy
  • of
  • the
  • English
  • and
  • the
  • Americans
  • imposed
  • upon
  • them.Originally
  • published
  • between
  • 2014
  • and
  • 2023,
  • the
  • stories
  • are
  • arranged
  • chronologically,
  • which
  • makes
  • for
  • an
  • entertaining
  • read
  • even
  • for
  • those
  • who
  • saw
  • the
  • stories
  • come
  • out individually.
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