In 1675, war broke out in Rhode Island when Native people fired on a handful of colonists, killing a young English man. Or so goes the story. If you're one of the relatively few people in the US who have …
“You can tell a lot about a community by the way they treat their dead.” On the morning of June 10th, 1692, one woman met the hangman’s noose. It was the point of no return in the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria. …
Join us for a reenactment of a 17th-century Puritan funeral. The procession will march down Essex Street down to Charter Street Cemetery. This reenactment will allow audiences to engage with seventeenth-century New England funerary culture and draw attention to Salem’s …