For information on the Charter Street Preservation Project including images and related links, visit preservingsalem. Centuries ago this house was a grand display of Federal style architecture and a meeting place for great literary thinkers.
In Dr. The two actively advocated education reform. Samuel Pickman House, ca. It stands on its original site and exhibits the characteristics associated with this style. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is a somber place for reflection on the events of the Salem Witch Trials that led to the execution of 20 innocent people. The Memorial is positioned behind the cemetery, symbolizing the community turning its back on the victims of the Witch Trials.
Please respect this place as a site of solemn rembrance; do not stand on the benches or leave trash behind. Follow all posted signs and directions. You are invited to visit Salem. Skip to main content. Photo Credit: Rebecca Brooks. The stone walls were repaired, light fixtures were installed and the grounds were landscaped to restore the memorial back to the way it looked in The designers of the memorial, Smith and Cutler, attended the ceremony and a keynote speech was given by author, actor and U.
The memorial is dedicated to the 19 people who were hanged during the Salem Witch Trials. The memorial features a semi-circular stone wall with 19 stones engraved with the names and execution dates of the 19 victims.
This memorial in Danvers was also built in , and is located right across the street from the former site of the Salem Village meetinghouse. The memorial, built by the Witchcraft Tercentennial Committee of Danvers, features a granite Colonial pulpit on a broken chain of shackles and an eight-foot-high wall with the names and testimony of the victims.
For more information about historical places in Salem, check out my article on Salem Historical Sites and Locations. Sources: Arnold, David. Trouble is brewing. The Best of Cutler Anderson Architects. Rockport, Putnam, Eden. I, May, April,, pp. I am curious as to why other persons who were accused and died in jail while awaiting trial are not honored in the memorial. Specifically, I am thinking of my several times great grandmother, Ann Foster.
We have been to Salem and Andover. We have purchased quite a few books about the trials, and her name is throughout the transcripts. If you know why she was excluded, I would appreciate hearing the reason. I'm no more a witch than you are a wizard!
If you take my life away, God will give you blood to drink! The way in which Good has been portrayed in literature is worth mentioning because it sheds light upon how the Salem Witch Trials have been popularly imagined and how the accused witches were and are viewed today. Good is always depicted as an old hag with white hair and wrinkled skin.
She is often said to be sixty or seventy years of age by the same writers who clearly state that she was pregnant and had a six-year-old daughter. Even accounts from Salem Villagers and magistrates at the time refer to her as an old nuisance, hag, and bed-ridden. How did such a misconception arise? Perhaps her hard life did have such a physical effect on Good that she did appear extremely aged. On the other hand, witches are described in literature then and now as being old wicked women.
If Good was to represent the typical witch worthy of execution, then it is not surprising that all of the stereotypes would be accordingly attached. Good was a marginal woman and no doubt a nuisance to her neighbors. However, the Salem trials were conducted unfairly, with a presumption of guilt, and little evidence. Marginality is not worthy of hanging, and Good was never proved to be nor did she confess to be a witch.
Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Karlson, Carol. New York: W.
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