Book cover of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton
Biography & Autobiography

Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation

Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. […Learn More]