On 8/14/99, Jennifer <[email protected]> wrote >I just learned of the Memorial for the victims of the >witchcraft trails, and I was even more surprised to learn that Mary Esty was >included on it. She is also included on the section for quotes. I was >hoping that someone on the list is from Danvers Mass. and could get a picture >or a rubbing of the Memorial for me. I believe there are actually at least three memorials that I know of -- one in Salem, one in Danvers, and one in Topsfield (where the Towne sisters hailed from). The one in Salem was created for the tercenniary in 1992, with a unique stone-wall-enclosed park with benches protruding from the wall, each engraved with the name of an executed person. The opening on one of the four sides has words from the condemned sandblasted into the street-level stones, which are then overlapped and cut off where the stone wall starts to rise. It's pretty dramatic. See http://www.salemweb.com/memorial/stones1.htm for some images -- although I don't think they have them all. The one in Danvers, on Hobart St. across from the street where the Salem Village meetinghouse once stoods, is more of a traditional memorial stone than the other "concept" one. See http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/Commemoration.html for images and the inscriptions. I think this may be the one Jennifer is refering to. Then there's one in Topsfield for the three Towne sisters -- Rebecca Towne Nuse, Mary Towne Esty and Sarah Town Cloyce. I saw an image of it in a brochure for the Towne Family Association, but I haven't found any images of it on-line. I'm not at home, so I can only describe the picture from memory, and it seems to me that it looks like a large boulder with the memorial for the three accused women engraved in it. Try checking in with their home page at http://home.att.net/~roomejim/towne.htm periodically to see if they've expanded it to include more than three generations of vital statistics. Cheers, Margo Margo Burns [email protected] http://www.ogram.org