Neal, the wife and I just recently visited the Museum there in Salem, as well as the
cemetery where those twenty folks are buried. My blog of today's date at my blog site
includes some of the photos from our visit there. Here is the URL:
Also, I was sad to see the condition of the cemetery
in general, but specifically the section where the twenty are interred. Perhaps the
storms in late August contributed some, but I doubt it. This cemetery is a "money
maker" for the city and I am surprised they don't keep it up a little better.
Just my thoughts. Randall Carrier
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 09:12:20 -0400
From: CarrierGenealogy(a)gmx.com
To: carrier(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CARRIER] Fw: Fwd: [SALEM-WITCH] Salem Witch Hunt: Examine the Evidence,
National Park Service Salem Visitor Center
> The Essex National Heritage Commission, in partnership with the National Park
Service, will premiere Salem Witch Hunt: Examine the Evidence, on Tuesday, October 4 at
7:00 pm at the National Park Service Salem Visitor Center at 2 New Liberty Street, Salem.
Reservations are required. For reservations contact Essex Heritage at 978-740-0444 or
visit the website at
http://www.essexheritage.org/salemwitchhunt/
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>
http://essexheritage.com/press/09_28_2011%20Salem%20Witch%20Hunt%20Examin...
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> The National Park Service and Essex National Heritage Commission Announce the
Premiere of Salem Witch Hunt: Examine the Evidence
> A New Interpretive Film at the National Park Service Visitor Center in Salem
>
> October 3, 2011 (Salem, Mass.) – The Essex National Heritage Commission, in
partnership with the National Park Service, will premiere Salem Witch Hunt: Examine the
Evidence, on Tuesday, October 4 at 7:00 pm at the National Park Service Salem Visitor
Center at 2 New Liberty Street, Salem. Reservations are required.
>
> The Opening Night will begin at 7:00pm with refreshments and a brief presentation
followed by a 7:30pm showtime. Scholars, the director and many others involved in the
making of the film will be on hand for questions and a discussion. For reservations
contact Essex Heritage at 978-740-0444 or visit the website at
www.essexheritage.org/salemwitchhunt/.
>
> The film about the 1692 Salem Witch Trials is based on the most recent scholarly
research of the causes, events and aftermath of these famous trials. Award-winning
director Tom Phillips, in association with Professor Benjamin C. Ray of the University of
Virginia, wrote and directed this film, which draws on a reexamination of nearly 1,000
manuscript records and published material associated with the witchcraft trials of 1692.
The movie reveals newly found documents and research which shed new light on the trials,
with reenactors speaking the documented words of the accusers and victims, and analysis by
scholars who have studied the trials for many years.
>
> “This film, offers many new insights into a story that has been told and retold for
hundreds of years. The history of these infamous trials is one of the most frequently
asked questions by visitors at the National Park Service Visitor Center in Salem,” said
Annie C. Harris, Executive Director of the Essex National Heritage Commission. “When we
were offered the opportunity to re-examine this period of history with the benefit of the
latest scholarship, we jumped at the chance.”
>
> “While many visitors know of the trials, few know the history of the events that
cost the lives of twenty innocent victims,” said Rita Hennessy, acting Superintendent of
the Salem and Saugus National Historic Sites. “This historically accurate interpretation
of the Salem witch trials will be a centerpiece at our Visitor Center in Salem.”
>
> This film was shot on location at Massachusetts sites associated with the events of
1692, including the Rebecca Nurse Homestead and the Parris Parsonage foundation in Danvers
and the Corwin House (Witch House) in Salem.
>
> About the Essex National Heritage Area
>
> The Essex National Heritage Commission (Essex Heritage) is the non-profit management
entity for Essex National Heritage Area, one of forty-nine heritage partnership parks of
the National Park Service. Working in collaboration with the National Park Service, the
Essex Heritage promotes public/private partnerships and develops and implements programs
that enhance, preserve and encourage regional awareness of the unique historic, cultural
and natural resources found within the Area. For more information, visit the website at
www.essexheritage.org or call (978) 740-0444.
>
> About Salem Maritime National Historic Site
>
> Salem Maritime National Historic Site was designated in 1937, the first National
Historic Site in the National Park Service system. The nine acre site includes the homes
of merchants and mariners, the Salem Custom House in which the famous author Nathaniel
Hawthorne worked, and a replica of the three-masted cargo vessel Friendship. Today, the
rangers and volunteers of Salem Maritime NHS continue to inform and inspire visitors with
the maritime history of New England and the United States. For more information, visit us
on the web at
www.nps.gov/sama,
facebook.com/SalemMaritime or call 978-740-1650.
>
> About the Director
>
> Tom Phillips is a professional musician, director and producer. He started his
career making music videos and doing television adverts combining his musical and visual
skills. Tom has a long list of accomplishments, including producer/director/DOP for 47
episodes of the Monsterquest series for the History Channel, a widely successful, highly
rated show. In 2009 Tom brought the idea of „Salem Unmasking the Devil‟, based on new
research, to Wide-Eyed Entertainment. It was sold to The National Geographic Channel and
BBC Worldwide. It has already transmitted in the UK and was pick of the day in three UK
leading newspapers and „Salem Unmasking the Devil‟ will air in the US on October 15th
2011.
>
> About the Scholars
>
> Mary Beth Norton of Cornell University is the author of In the Devil’s Snare;
Benjamin C. Ray of the University of Virginia has written extensively on the religious
aspects of the trials and maintains the Salem Witch Trails Documentary Archive and
Transcription website; Emerson (Tad) Baker of Salem State University has recently
published The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England; Margo
Burns of the University of New Hampshire co-authored with Bernard Rosenthal and Gretchen
Adams the comprehensive guide to the witchcraft trial documents: Records of the Salem
Witch-Hunt; and Richard Trask, Archivist, Town of Danvers (formerly Salem Village).
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