Welcome to the Residence at Daniel Webster’s NEW Shared Community Calendar! We created this shared calendar to allow people in the local community (Merrimack, Nashua, Manchester and surrounding areas) to post their events that they think others may be interested in. We hope you will all enjoy this calendar and utilize it so it becomes a one-stop way to find out about the many terrific events taking place in the community. So go ahead and add, browse and enjoy! If you have an idea about how we could improve this format, we would love to hear about it. Please contact us with your ideas or call. You can either e-mail us at mboyd@dfi.cc or call us at 617-227-0893 ext. 653
The Salem witch trials threatened the very core of the early Massachusetts Bay Colony. The extraordinary hysteria involved more than 400 people and led to the deaths of 25 innocents — men, women and children — between June 1692 and March 1693. Explore rarely-exhibited original witch trial documents from PEM’s Phillips Library collection and learn the true story of this tragedy as told through the voices and with the possessions of those directly involved.
Many unfounded theories about the Salem witch trials, from poisoning by rotten bread to property disputes to an outbreak of encephalitis, still persist to this day. The panic grew from a society threatened by nearby war and a malfunctioning judicial system in a setting rife with religious conflict and blatant intolerance. For more than 300 years since, the complex drama of the witch trials and its themes of injustice and the frailties of human nature has fascinated us.
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