Salem is a walking town, with Essex Street acting as the main pedestrian artery. If you're spending the night in Salem, haunted hotels are the way to go. This walking tour assumes you're staying at either the Hawthorne Hotel, or the Salem Inn, which lie at opposites ends of this walk. Both are … [Read more...] about A Salem Walking Tour in Three Miles
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A Field Guide to visiting Salem, Massachusetts: From Witches to the Maritimes, to literary fame, a history lover’s dream
I'll admit it, the first time I saw the sign announcing that I had arrived in Salem, I got chills up my spine. The Salem witch hunt was a real-life horror story, and usually the first one we learn as school children. If you grew up in the sixties, there's a good chance that mood was further … [Read more...] about A Field Guide to visiting Salem, Massachusetts: From Witches to the Maritimes, to literary fame, a history lover’s dream
Salem Witch Hunt Sites: Touring Marblehead & Essex County with The Physick Book Of Deliverance Dane
Houses on State Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts The Physick Book Of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe is divided into two time periods: Salem and the witch hunts raging through Essex County, Massachusetts in 1692, and the same area in more or less modern times (1991). For me, the magic is in how … [Read more...] about Salem Witch Hunt Sites: Touring Marblehead & Essex County with The Physick Book Of Deliverance Dane
Newbury Massachusetts and the Pierce Tomb: Dancing with the dead on Old Burial Hill
The Pierce Tomb, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts. I love the dead before they're cold, Their blueing flesh for me to hold. Cadaver eyes upon me see nothing. I love the dead before they rise, No farewells, no goodbyes. I never even knew your now-rotting face. While friends and lovers … [Read more...] about Newbury Massachusetts and the Pierce Tomb: Dancing with the dead on Old Burial Hill
Newbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts: Early American history and historical attractions from the colonial era in an enchanted New England landscape
Top: Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, circa 1695, Newbury, Essex county, Massachusetts.Newbury reminds me of the west of Ireland. You come into Newbury via a roundabout. Head one direction and you're going back in time to Newbury's early American roots, to Newbury itself. Take off in the other and you … [Read more...] about Newbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts: Early American history and historical attractions from the colonial era in an enchanted New England landscape
