8x10” print of my watercolor painting. 
This is my interpretation of an encounter from 1639, as recorded by John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He wrote that earlier in the year James Everell and two others were rowing a boat on the Muddy River when they saw a great light in the night sky. “When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square. When it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine.”  The men reported that the encounter lasted two to three hours and that the light “ran as swift as an arrow” darting back and forth between them and the village of Charlestown, approximately two miles away. Winthrop added, “Diverse other credible persons saw the same light, after, about the same place.”
When the apparition finally departed, the three men were shocked to find themselves a mile upstream, with no memory of rowing against the tide.