Deer Island

It was nothing like that.

The Deer Island baby doe was later to be found as Bella Bond, but for a while they thought maybe, possibly, that could be Ayla.

In 2013, authorities did state that communication with Alicia, Courtney, and Justin had in fact gotten better.

They, at this point, all three had a lawyer, Michael Waxman, and at this point they also had finally been presented the DNA evidence that was found within the home.

On the thirteenth of September, the magistrates decreed that simply confining the praying Indians to the praying towns just wasn't secure enough.

So they ordered that the inhabitants of the oldest praying town, Natick, were to be rounded up, taken to Boston, and interned on Deer Island in Boston Harbor.

Deer Island was a barren rock.

The deer it was named after had long ago been hunted out of existence, and most of its trees chopped down.

The only semi-reliable source of food on the island were clams from the beaches.

The wives and children of convicted Indians began to be offered a binary choice.

Join their fathers and husbands in slavery, or be interned on Deer Island.

Going home was not an option.

The problem is Massachusetts was built out, a lot of the inner suburbs at least, were built out between the '20s and '50s, when you not only had much lower land costs than you do now, but there were often places that weren't really fully sewered, and so they needed to make room for leach fields.

But since then, it's changed a lot, and as places have developed, I mean, we have, serving most of Greater Boston, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, which sends all of our wastewater out to Deer Island in Boston Harbor.

And so it really is a, a place where there's been a lot of existing infrastructure, and making good on that investment requires a change to the status quo, in my mind.

Because, I mean, not to get too personal, but-