Dorothy Day’s Vermont granddaughter off to prison for nuclear break-in

Vermonter Martha Hennessy and supporters prepare for sentencing in the former bedroom of her grandmother, Dorothy Day, at the Catholic Worker Maryhouse in New York City. Courtesy photo
A Vermont granddaughter of the late, legendary Catholic activist Dorothy Day has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for breaking into a Georgia naval base to protest its stockpile of nuclear weapons.Martha Hennessy, 65, of Weathersfield and six other pacifists known as the “Kings Bay Plowshares 7” h