I am not sure why you posted this. Was it to review the history and make people aware of it?

I have a cousin who moved from New Hampshire to Salem about five years ago. I visit her about twice a year. It takes at least 2 hours to get there from my home in Rhode Island. While many tourists go to Salem for the witchcraft attractions, my favorite place to go is the Peabody-Essex Museum which has nothing to do with witchcraft.

"The trials were not shining examples of American justice." That is true for the continents of North and South America. However, let me remind readers that in 1692 Salem was part of England's Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Bob Franke has written a wonderful song about this. I thought it was called Three Little Girls, but looking at his website I think it might be "I but a Little Girl." I would pst a link to this song if I could find one. And f course Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" is about this, too.

I've written about this on another thread. One of my son's ancestors (on his father's side, not mine), Mary Dyer, was hung for witchcraft on the Boston Common. She was a Quaker who was first banished to Rhode Island for proselytizing. However, she returned and continued to preach and tried to convert others, so she was hung. Now there is a statue of her in front of the Massachusetts State House in Boston. http://www.flickr.com/photos/highdef/1331563149/