Welcome to Salem, Massachusetts! Join tour guides Jeffrey Lilley and Sarah Black as they talk all things Witch City. Learn its history, meet its people, and discover the magic.

A few weeks ago, we covered the Blizzard of 1978. But what about the Blizzard of '88... 1888 that is? What about centuries before that? Snow storms are destructive enough in the modern era, but how did Puritans in colonial New England deal with them? We'll also jump 150 years forward to the Great White Hurricane of March 1888. Join Sarah and Jeffrey, your favorite Salem tour guides as they talk about more winter, more snow, and more cold. 
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<li><a href='https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47082/47082-h/47082-h.htm'>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47082/47082-h/47082-h.htm</a></li>
<li><a href='https://marbleheadmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/pp-187-260-331Winthrop_s_Journal_History_of_New_Englan.pdf'>https://marbleheadmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/pp-187-260-331Winthrop_s_Journal_History_of_New_Englan.pdf</a></li>
<li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age</a></li>
<li><a href='https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/1742'>https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/1742</a></li>
<li><a href='https://www.dotnews.com/2017/oh-hunger-many-suffered'>https://www.dotnews.com/2017/oh-hunger-many-suffered</a></li>
<li><a href='https://www.brancatosnowremoval.com/history-snow-removal-first-snow-plow/'>https://www.brancatosnowremoval.com/history-snow-removal-first-snow-plow/</a></li>
<li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1888'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1888</a></li>
<li><a href='https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/the-blizzard-of-1888-americas-greatest-snow-disaster'>https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/the-blizzard-of-1888-americas-greatest-snow-disaster</a></li>
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153: Winters of New England's Past

Who is the most famous artist in Salem? Some would say that title goes to 13-year-old Georgia Wren, the talent behind “Georgia Made This.” You've probably seen her selling Salem-inspired merchandise at the Salem Arts Festival, or perhaps at the Haunted Happenings Marketplace in October. You can also find her products in Moons Gift Shop and at the Peabody Essex Museum Store! And we know several of you listeners probably have "Georgia Made This" apparel hanging in your closet at this very moment. Join Jeffrey and Sarah as they sit down with the Georgia (and her Dad, Chris) to learn about how she got her business off the ground at just 6 years old. What's her favorite design thus far? How does she feel about opening a new store on Front Street? And did she really meet Adam Sandler?
<a href='http://www.georgiamadethis.com/'>www.georgiamadethis.com</a>
@georgiamadethis
 
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152. Interview: Georgia Wren

Some of you may remember the 300th year anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials. Perhaps you watched as the memorials were dedicated. Or you followed Laurie Cabot and her fellow witches up to Gallows Hill. But surely none of you were around in 1892! Nearly a century and a half ago, Salem was commemorating the bicentenary of the Salem Witch Trials... or were they?
What exactly did Salem look like and how did they treat this grim history? Join Sarah and Jeffrey, your favorite Salem tour guides, for a little 1892 adventure. Are you buying Witch Cream and cigars from the pharmacy at the Witch House? Or being taken on a carriage tour to the hanging grounds. And which house inspired Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables again?
 
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<li>1892 Jan 12. "To Erect a Tablet on Witch Hill" Boston Evening Transcript. 8.</li>
<li>1892 Jan 2. "Origin of Souvenir Spoons" The Evening World. 4.</li>
<li>1892 Sept 26. "The Witch Tragedy" The Lima News. 6.</li>
<li>1892 Jan 16. "Witch Cream" Boston Evening Transcript. 8.</li>
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151. Salem in 1892

Join Jeffrey and Sarah, your favorite Salem tour guides, as they round out the life of Sarah Wildes. What lasting repercussions did her quick betrothal have on her life? Is that why Mary Reddington slandered her for decades? Was the scythe cursed or were they just a bunch of teenagers? It all comes together in the end.
 
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Clara Arlette Avery, The Averell-Averill-Avery Family: A Record of the Descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass.
Marilynne Roach, The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege 
Walter Davis, The Wildes Family of Essex County, Massachusetts
<a href='https://salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/sarah-and-john-wildes-home-site-of/'>https://salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/sarah-and-john-wildes-home-site-of/</a>
<a href='https://historyofmassachusetts.org/sarah-wildes/'>https://historyofmassachusetts.org/sarah-wildes/</a>
<a href='https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/tag/wilds_sarah.html'>https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/tag/wilds_sarah.html</a>



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