Or, in an appropriately New England context: It’s wicked cold outside! The origins of this Yankee-ism are unclear. Some years back, a Bostonian friend suggested the fanciful notion that ‘wicked’ is a way of exorcising the demons of the Salem Witch trials. This is little more than am...
Last week, in preparation for the influx of visitors to Salem, a local business mirrored the mayor’s requests and offered some guidelines on how to make the most of the Salem experience. Gallery Credit: Maddie Levine Do Not Drive into Salem Canva Do Not Drive into Salem “There are only ...
That first public outing of Lesbians and gay men in Northampton happened in an already hostile local atmosphere that had been energized by the national emergence of the New Right and election of Ronald Reagan. Lesbians had already begun tobe targets for violence in the late 70s, when they first...