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Salem Award Foundation Receives Coveted Annenberg Grant
You may have heard in recent news that the Salem Award Foundation has received a $25,000 grant from the Annenburg Foundation.
Read the full story in the Salem Gazette.
“Charles Weingarten visited Salem last fall to research the history of the witch trials in preparation for a possible film. He contacted Alison D’Amario, Patty MacLeod and Tina Jordan, of the Salem Witch Museum. D’Amario and MacLeod were instrumental in establishing the Salem Witch Trials Memorial and the Salem Award Foundation. During his exploration at historic sites with local experts, they told him about the Salem Award and its mission to educate the public through the lessons of the trials.”
The Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice
Charles Annenberg Weingarten (pictured left). Photo courtesy of the Annenberg Foundation.
View Mr. Weingarten’s Film – Salem Witch Hunt
The Salem Witch Museum is proud to be part of a community dedicated to contributing to the cause of human rights and social justice.
Judge Sewall’s Apology, Richard Francis
THE LECTURE
The premier of the Old Town Hall Lecture Series on Thursday evening was a huge success! The talk by Richard Francis, author of Judge Sewall’s Apology, gave an overview of a flesh-and-blood Samuel Sewall, the only one of nine judges presiding over the Salem witch trials to apologize for his part in the tragedy. Read more »
Professor Benjamin C. Ray Lectures at the House of Seven Gables
Professor Benjamin Ray of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia lectured to a sold out room at the House of Seven Gables this week. Professor Ray is the project director of Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project where everyone “from teachers to fourth graders” can now readily access 8,000 searchable pages from source documents online. Read more »
Salem Witch Museum Makes an Appearance on Boston’s Fox 25 News
Boston’s Fox 25 News stopped by today in anticipation of Halloween 2010. Here’s a clip!
October 1692
From Marilynne K. Roach’s Chronology of the Salem Witch Trials
With opposition to the court’s methods growing, Governor Phips suspends the Court of Oyer and Terminer until England can advise on the witch problem. Some of the younger suspects are released on bail.
Image of Sir William Phips from University of Virginia website “Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project”:
Source: Cover illustration. The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651-1695. By Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid. University of Toronto Press, 1998. Photograph by Nicholas Dean, courtesy of the Gardiner family.
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PUT TO DEATH
June 10, 1692
Bridget Bishop
July 19, 1692
Sarah Good
Rebecca Nurse
Susannah Martin
Elizabeth How
Sarah Wildes
August 19, 1692
George Burroughs
John Proctor
John Willard
George Jacobs
Martha Carrier
September 19, 1692
Giles Cory, pressed to death
September 22, 1692
Martha Cory
Mary Eastey
Alice Parker
Ann Pudeater
Margaret Scott
Wilmott Redd
Samuel Wardwell
Mary Parker
Shroud of Mystery at the Salem Witch Museum
“Preserve the past, save the future,” is the motto for the Mississippi Stone Guild whose president, Michael Drummond Davidson, has been working to conserve the facade of the Salem Witch Museum since the Spring of this year. The time has come to confront the challenge of preserving the historic exterior of a building which has become a prominent landmark in Salem. Read more »
Saving in Salem
Who doesn’t want to save a couple extra bucks whenever they can? Visitors to the Salem Witch Museum receive discounts all over Salem – and as far as Essex – just by showing your admission sticker. Read more »