Iris Ward Loughran
About
These are a series of six photographs of signs guarding land along Father Rasle road, just outside Madison Maine. Now named Old Point, the land was previously known as Norridgewock. It was home to an Indigenous village, and In 1694 father Sebastian Rasle, a French missionary, settled at Norridgewock to establish a Jesuit Mission. After a few quarrels, there was a bounty on father Rasle’s scalp and in In august of 1724 British colonists massacred the community of Norridgewock. There were survivors. They returned to bury their dead, but relocated to other parts of their land.