SALTONSTALL 2019: Sunday, October 20 after the 2:30 performance

SALTONSTALL 2019
Sunday, October 20 after the 2:30 performance

Six Women of Salem: Descendant’s Day
Have you ever looked back into your family tree to see who your ancestors were? Did you find out if your ancestor was accused as a witch? Was he a judge during the Salem Witch Trials? Are you descended from the Governor, or members of the Governor’s Council at the time? Was your ancestor executed during this time? Did you know that descendants from the New England Witch Trials have a deep bloodline of 135 years and over one million people.

Our host for the afternoon: Rachel Christ is the Director of Education at the Salem Witch Museum. She holds a BA in Global History from Clark University and is currently working on her MA in History and Museum Studies at Tufts University. She has been Director of Education at the Salem Witch Museum since 2017, and within this role she works with students and teachers, curates the museum’s exhibits, directs staff training, and coordinates the museum’s educational programming.

Our guest for the afternoon: Marilynne K. Roach is a scholar and an author who works as a freelance writer, illustrator, researcher, and presenter of talks on historical subjects. She has written for publications as varied as the Boston Globe, the New England Historic Genealogical Register, and the Lizzie Borden Quarterly. She is a member of the Gallows Hill Project that verified the correct site of the 1692 hangings, a discovery listed in Archaeology Magazine’s list of the world’s ten most important discoveries of 2017.