End of era, part four: Facing painful history

Mary Wakefield Buxton

URBANNA —

To say I was a bit miffed after learning about the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 and what happened to Anglo-Saxons for the next millennium is an understatement.

For years I nursed anger and on subsequent trips to England I refused to enter Norman churches. I even sniffed out French names suspicious such ancestors had enslaved my people. How dare they take our land, make us serfs and establish a social class system that suppressed my ancestors.

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