What: The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming
Where: New York Historical Society
Who: Recommend for Tweens and Up
When: Through January 22, 2022
When you think about the Salem Witch Trials, they feel like something fantastical that could never possibly have really happened. A visit to the exhibit ,The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming, however, brings that period of time to life and makes it all too real. The exhibit consists of numerous documents from that time period including pages of testimony, warrants, depositions and more. There are also objects that belonged to people involved with the witch trials including John Proctor's sundial and Rebecca Putnam's loom. Proctor's wife Elizabeth was accused of witchcraft and put to death. Putnam's family was involved with numerous allegations of witchcraft. If you are familiar with the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller's take on the witch trials, much of what you see at the exhibit will have a familiarity to it and will really bring alive the time period and characters of the play all of whom were based on real people. The exhibit also includes fashions from Alexander McQueen's collection meant to celebrate his relative Elizabeth How, who was also condemned as a witch and put to death, as well as portraits of contemporary people who identify as witches. The photographs are meant to reclaim the word"witch" as a representation of female power rather than something to silence and control women.
For more about The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming, go to www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/salem-witch-trials-reckoning-and-reclaiming. For more about the New York Historical Society in general or to purchase time tickets to visit, go to www.nyhistory.org
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