Today’s Salem is a strange place, at once alluring and off-putting. This former haunt of terrified, grudge-holding (and doomed) Puritans bursts with witch museums, statues, tours, workshops ...
Estes Park High School and Thespian Troupe 7284 is busy rehearsing their latest production, Witches!? In Salem?! by Matt Cox.
Their actions can doubtless be easily explained by modern psychiatry. But to the Puritans of Salem, indeed to any seventeenth century man, these were puzzling and frightening phenomena.
Hawthorne, who was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1804, was aware of his messy Puritan heritage. His ...