12/23/2023 0 Comments Tad baker salem state![]() ![]() WHEREAS: The values of inclusivity, tolerance, open mindedness, and kindness are central to who we are as a community and are directly informed by the events of our past WHEREAS: Salem continues to shine a light on its history in order that all may learn from the lessons and legacies of this city’s past and WHEREAS: All of the dozens of individuals were each wholly innocent and convicted based on spectral evidence, lies, and hysteria and WHEREAS: 325 years ago on this date of June 10th in 1692 Bridget Playfer Bishop of Salem Town was wrongfully and unjustly executed for the supposed crime of witchcraft, becoming the first of 25 innocent people to die as a result of the hysteria and It was June 10 1692, 325 years ago, that Bridget Bishop was hung on Proctor’s Ledge, the first of 25 to die in the Salem Witchcraft Trials. The City of Salem proclaims June 10 as a Day of Remembrance. Proctor’s Ledge Memorial Dedication Date Announced Doors open at 6:30 pm Thursday July 20 at the National Park Service Visitor Center, 2 New Liberty St in Salem MA. The event is free and open to the public. ![]() The panel: Emerson “Tad” Baker, professor of history at Salem State University Elizabeth Peterson, director of Salem’s Corwin House, The Witch House Tom Phillips, director and producer of Salem Witch Hunt: Examine the Evidence Marilynne Roach , witch trials author and historian Benjamin Ray, professor of religion at the University of Virginia. In recognition of the 325th anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials, the Proctor’s Ledge Symposium on July 20 will feature the Gallows Hill Project team who recently confirmed the location where 19 people were hanged for witchcraft 325 years ago. The 2nd one on July 20 is of real interest to readers of this blog, as it will cover the significance and role of the new Proctor’s Ledge Memorial on Pope St, which will have been dedicated the day before, July 19 (unfortunately at the inconvenient hour of 12 noon). Over the summer the Salem State Social Justice Institute is holding three events called Thursdays in July on social injustice, past and current. The site of the Korn Leather Factory in the 21st century is occupied by a Walgreen’s Pharmacy, seemingly oblivious to its central position in local history, a monument dedicated to the Great Fire in one corner of the parking lot, and a new monument dedicated to those executed in 1692 catty-cornered across the lot. In the photo the position of Proctor’s Ledge is already obscured by heavy smoke. The tanneries in the right foreground were untouched, protected by the stiff wind pushing flames in the other direction. ![]() Hours later the conflagration would only subside when it reached Salem harbor, after taking out about a third of Salem, razing 1376 buildings and leaving 18,000 homeless. ![]() Soon the flames would jump across Boston St, taking out the factories and houses in the middle of the photo. In this photo, taken from the vantage point on a tannery on Goodhue St shortly after the fire began, the flames have already spread east along Boston St., pushed along by a stiff wind. ![]()
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