At age 71, Nurse became the oldest woman killed at the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693. About 200 people were tried for witchcraft in Puritan New England and 19 of them, mostly women, were ...

Kathryn Rutkowski, president and curator of The Rebecca Nurse Homestead, told WBZ-TV. While Salem gets all the attention as 'The Witch City," it was actually Danvers that was ground zero for ...

In "A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse," author Daniel A. Gagnon, using primary source materials, explores how he believes historians and theorists have gotten the ...

SALEM — In 1692, when children often died young, Rebecca Nurse’s lived. During the Salem witch trials, this was one of the reasons locals were convinced that Nurse was a witch, according to ...

Salem Memorializes Those Killed During Witch Trials : The Two-Way The memorial stands at the site where 19 innocent women and men were hanged. It opened on the 325th anniversary of the first mass ...

For the Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers, this year has been full of firsts.. The home of the oldest woman accused of witchcraft and executed during the 17th century Salem Witch Trials typically ...

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 ...

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