Tue, Oct 08
|First Presbyterian Church, Thompson Hall
When There Were Witches: An Exploration of the Salem Witch Trials (Open to the Public)
Social Time starts at 7:00 Program starts at 7:30 Presented by: Mickey DiCamillo, trustee at the Historical Society of Moorestown, research librarian and archivist
Time & Location
Oct 08, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
First Presbyterian Church, Thompson Hall, 11 Springfield Ave, Cranford, NJ 07016, USA
About the event
In January of 1692, a strange illness seized control of five young girls living in Salem Village, a contentious and divided town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. When medical professionals couldn’t identify the illness, the town believed the girls had come "under an evil hand." Events soon spiraled out of control with local divisions and a splintered colonial government feeding the frenzy. Archivist Mickey DiCamillo unravels the events with archival documents from the period, and program participants will interact with transcripts from the 1692 interrogations of suspected witches. Participants will also learn where the documents live online, so they can investigate more on their own. A Q&A session follows the presentation.