Tag: Granny Squannit

Joan Tavares Avant brings us Tales from Granny Squannit in the Mashpee Enterprise. Mrs. Frederick Gardner, Mashpee Wampanoag, shared the legend about the Screecham Sisters with author Elizabeth Reynard, who wrote it down around 1934. No one could not settle on Screecham’s Island, which lies off Cotuit near Mashpee, because the ghost of Hannah Screecham…