Haunted Happenings and Hocus Pocus
Memorialization of the Salem Witch Trials—Is Salem Doing Enough?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.21358Keywords:
Landscape, Memory, Witch Trials, Salem, Massachusetts, memorializationAbstract
The history and fascination of the Salem Witch Trials continues to attract visitors to the American coastal city in Massachusetts. This paper will investigate what has been instigated in the form of memorialization to those that were accused and subsequently executed; nineteen were hanged and one was pressed to death, how has Salem confronted this part of their history?
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