Status Updates From The Salem Witch Trials: A D...

It certainly is an eye-opening depiction of the Puritans, when you hear accounts of what some of these folks were like on a *regular* basis. Lively lot, them.

Poor Mary Warren. "Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.”

“In a more mundane interpretation of the events and evidence…” Heh, she said dryly.

This is making me think a lot of Randy Shilts’ “And the Band Played On.” a similar approach, to the point where I was looking up samples of the latter book online for comparison: he doesn’t literally go day by day as she often tries to, what more seasonally. Certainly linear, but with the same room for digression and anecdote, and movement between persons and place.

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