Salem Witch Trials

Enjoy an after hours event in the library while you learn about the Salem Witch Trials. In 1692, a group of teenage girls began having bizarre and disturbing fits and claimed that witches in the community were persecuting them. By the end of the year, twenty women and men had been executed for witchcraft. Though witchcraft trials had happened before in New England, these spiraled out of control; legal safeguards went out the window and fear gained the upper hand. Our images of Salem are often sensational and historically inaccurate. This lecture lays out the true story of one of the strangest and most painful episodes in American history.