SALTONSTALL 2019: Friday, October 18, after the 7:30 performance

SALTONSTALL 2019
Friday, October 18, after the 7:30 performance

A Storm of Witchcraft
Our host for the evening: Dan Lipcan is the Head Librarian at the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum. He joined the Peabody Essex Museum at the end of May, arriving after a 16-year tenure at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Thomas J. Watson Library. Dan originally hails from Cape Cod. He and his wife Elaine live in Beverly and bowl in a candlepin league on Thursday nights.

Our guest for the evening: Emerson “Tad” Baker is interim dean of the School of Graduate Studies and a professor of History at Salem State University. He is an award-winning author of many works on the history and archaeology of early New England, including A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience and The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England. He has served as an adviser for PBS-TV's American Experience and Colonial House, and has consulted and appeared in many documentaries and podcasts on the Salem Witch Trials. He is a member of the Gallows Hill Team who in 2016 confirmed the execution site for the victims of the Salem Witch trials.