Hello all! Back at the beginning of the summer, I posted some info about this upcoming seminar at the Peabody-Essex. The deadline for registering is fast approaching, so I thought I'd just post it again as a reminder for those who put it off, and for new subscribers finding out about it for the first time so you don't miss out! Cheers, --Margo The 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials: Fact, Fiction, and our Forefathers September 17, 18, & 19, 1999 Members $195 Nonmembers $245 Payment due September 1, 1999 See: http://www.pem.org/education/wts99.htm Back by popular demand, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., announces a repeat of its popular program on the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. The three-day seminar will take place at the museum in Salem. Lectures will be offered on such topics as life in Salem in 1692, witchcraft and Colonial law, and witchcraft in Europe, along with videos, tours, a demonstration of a new "Witchcraft in Salem Village" website, and an opportunity to take part in a mock witchcraft trial. A special opportunity to do research in the renovated Phillips Library is also available. The keynote speech will be delivered by David Greene, co-editor of The American Genealogist, and author of several articles on the trial victims. Other speakers include Danvers, Mass., town archivist Richard B. Trask, Professor Stephen P. Marrone of Tufts University, Ph.D. candidate Thomas E. Conroy of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and assistant curator Paula B. Richter and curator Jane E. Ward of the Pebody Essex Museum. The seminar will conclude with an optional trip to sites in Danvers, Mass. This seminar will appeal to anyone interested in the 1692 trials, but especially to those descended from one of the vistims of this terrible tragedy. For more informtion and registration, contact; Jane E. Ward, Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, Mass., 01970-3783, 978-745-9500, ext. 3032. Margo Burns, List Owner of the SALEM-WITCH List at Rootsweb.com [email protected]