Myles Standish's boots - A very weird roadside attraction

On a clear day with blue skies on 26 August 1922, lightning struck the statue of Captain Myles Standish on the tower in Myles Standish Monument State Reservation in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The strange phenomenon destroyed the top half of the statue, and the arm holding his sword. Native Americans in the area considered this retribution, and gather at the legs annually. 70 years later, in the 1990s, the legs of this statue were discovered cast aside in a quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts. You can see these seven foot boots at 20 Dwight Street in Halifax, Massachusetts. This strange landmark is located in front of the residence of Marc Valentine, a local artist, near the Monponsett Lake where Sachem Massasoit (Ousamequin) had his hunting lodge on White Island. Halifax was in the center of many of the conflicts during King Philip's War. One of the catalysts for King Philip's War might have been when the English at Plymouth worried that Wamsutta, Ousamequin's son, was planning an attack.…