A hundred years ago, descendents of Massachusetts settlers commemorated their battles with local native Americans with stone markers. Now the local history museum is covering up those markers. “The aim is to drape the rhetoric of the 1870s and 1880s, when the museum was established, with a more modern version of events in the late 1600s and early 1700s that no longer denigrates one-time foes. ‘It was hard for me and other members of the staff to rationalize the words. Phrases like ‘bloodthirsty savages’ are hurtful to people’.”