July 7, 2018

Valley News

Jim Kenyon: Despite House Arrest, Vt. Activist’s Faith, Beliefs Remain Unshakeable

With the Upper Valley in the grips of an extended heat wave, Martha Hennessy stayed home while her husband and grandchildren cooled off a couple of miles away at Stoughton Pond in Perkinsville on a recent afternoon.

Missing out on the family fun wasn’t her choice.

Hennessy, 62, has been under “house arrest” since late May when the federal government tethered an electronic monitoring bracelet to her left ankle. Under bail conditions set by a U.S District Court judge in Georgia, Hennessy can’t leave her property on Cady Hill Road in Weathersfield without the government’s permission. She’s not even allowed outdoors between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m.

Once a day — at 3:15 p.m. — she’s allowed to walk to the end of her driveway to the mailbox across the road. Twice a week, she can attend services at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Springfield, Vt. — providing she wears her “federal jewelry.”

On the bright side, with all the time Hennessy is spending around the house this summer, her vegetable and flower gardens have never looked better…

https://www.vnews.com/Weathersfield-Nuclear-War-Protester-Under-House-Arrest-18581468