Newbury Town Library

Salem, place, myth, and memory, edited by Dane Anthony Morrison, Nancy Lusignan Schultz

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

contains biographical information

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Salem

bibliography

53324954

edited by Dane Anthony Morrison, Nancy Lusignan Schultz

place, myth, and memory

How is a sense of place created, imagined, and reinterpreted over time? That is the intriguing question addressed in this comprehensive look at the 400-year, multi-layered history of Salem, Massachusetts, and the experiences of fourteen generations of people who lived in a place forever enshrined, indeed mythologized, in the public imagination by the horrific witch trials and executions of 1692 and 1693. By exploring the rich textures of Salem as a local, national, and global entity from its settling in 1626 to the present, this highly original, cohesive, and teachable collection illuminates how people influence a place and how a place influences its people