Jessica Michna — Goode Rebeka – Trial By Fire, The Salem Witch Trials

“Amerika”. Old traditions would be laid aside, new ones instituted. Greed, jealousy, suspicion would still persist. Were these at the root of “The Salem Witch Trials”? Innocent residents of Salem, Massachusetts were tried and many executed in perhaps the most infamous chapter in early American history. Meet Goode Rebeka, an elderly woman hanged as a witch in 1692, but was she? Perhaps by the end of the program you will be able to answer that question.

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• Next Friday, 19th September, 01:00 pm, John LeGear – 1960s Songs of the Silver Screen in Algonquin