Garbed in a dishwater-colored frock and glaring at us from under caterpillar brows is a life-sized figure of Rebecca Nurse, the eldest woman to be put to death during the Salem Witch Trials. Becky ...

Witches are a big deal in Salem's modern culture. The city's association with witchcraft has been capitalized on from films like 1993's "Hocus Pocus" to the annual Halloween festivities that draw in ...

Rebecca Nurse was a well-known woman hung in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials By Courtney Sisk • Published October 30, 2024 • Updated on November 3, 2024 at 10:21 am BOOKMARKER ...

‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Review: Witch Trials, Trump and the Kitchen Sink in Sarah Ruhl’s Overstuffed New Play Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center; 287 seats; $92 top. Opened December 4 ...

An exhibition view of “The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming,” at New-York Historical Society, including a window that once stood in the home of Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged for ...

The Boston grave site of Samuel Sewall, a judge in the 1692-1693 Salem witch trials. ... Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Wildes were hanged at a site in Salem known as Proctor’s Ledge.

Her name was Rebecca Nurse, and she was hanged in 1692 after being wrongfully accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials. Like the city, I’ve capitalized on the mystique that the trials ...

Genealogy testing showed Dutil is directly related to Rebecca Nurse, born Rebecca Towne, one of the most well-known cases in the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. "She's my seventh great-grandmother ...

Becky Nurse of Salem Through Dec. 31 at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Manhattan; lct.org. Running time: 2 hours. A correction was made on ...

The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic —and 20 were executed.

The result was “Becky Nurse of Salem,” a 2022 play, now in its first Chicago staging by Shattered Globe Theatre, that revolves around the titular character, a real-life descendant of Rebecca ...