Today, we left Boston and drove to Salem. We parked at the public parking and then went to the Salem Witch Museum. It was excellent. They have a sound and light gut dramatization of the Salem Witch trials. They also make the point that this can happen any time. They show parallels with macarthyism (fear of communism) and the recent fear of AIDS and demand nixing of gays. We also went to the witch House. It's a house where the magistrate who tried the witches lived. They had an amazing docent who told us all kinds of stuff about the Salem Witch trials. Then we had lunch at a lovely restaurant where we sat outside. We both had fig, goat cheese and prosciutto flat bread.
After lunch, we went to several witch shops and we went and had a tarot card reading. It was really fun. We also went to the the Salem Wirch memorial. There is a bench for each person who was executed.
We are staying at the Hawthorne Hotel. It's a very old and luxurious looking hotel.
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