Onely to see you all today this day. My name is donnas the dark, chair of the History Department here at salem state university. Thank you all for coming today. We are all here, obviously, the of Bridget Bishop long hot summer and thaw of 1962. This is the 325th anniversary of those events. As a history professor, i am sometimes reticent to indulge in what i called anniversary history, because i like my students to think every single day is historic. Take adoes feel right to moment, take a day, and really think about what happened during that year. So that is what we are doing today. That is what the city of salem is going to be doing probably all summer long. Before i introduce our distinguished guest, who will open up our symposium, the mayor of salem, kimberly jusco driscoll, i want to say thanks. At the end of the day, i will think all of the presenters, but right now, i want to thank my little committee, because we have been working on this for a year. And that would include the t
I thank you all for coming today. We are all here, obviously, because of rigid ship. The long hot summer and early fall of 1692. As a history professor, i am inetimes reticent to indulge anniversary history because i like my students to think that every single day is historic. To take as feel right moment, take it day and really think about what happened. That is what we are doing today. That is with the city of salem is going to be doing all summer long. Before i introduce our distinguished guest who will , i want to symposium say thanks before i forget to thank everybody. While we are wrapping up this day am going to think all of the presenters contributions. Right now i want to thank my Little Committee because we have been working on this for a year. And that would include the two women downstairs who are not going to hear my thanks. Also from the Salem Award Foundation we have shelby, who has a brief announcement to make about our special feature. [indiscernible] and would like to
Starting with nice weather along the shore and everywhere across the area. Temperatures are warming up too. 75 in wildwood. Also Atlantic City millville, philadelphia coming in close to 80 degrees right now. Areas north and west about the mid70s at the moment. As we go through today, were going to keep these drier conditions in the forecast. Thats going to give us more sunshine than we had yesterday for sure. Locally, though we have a few clouds trying to move into parts of delaware and south jersey. Its part of this weather system to our south. So for today, most of the rain will be holding off to our south. As we go into the weekend, we are talking about our increasing rain chances. Heres future weather. Clouds move in today, but tomorrow thats when the clouds and more rain starts to move in. For saturday more cloud cover scattered throughout the day. Well watch closely for your fireworks plans. As we go into the rest of the afternoon, by noon 80 degrees. By 3 00 p. M. 82 degrees. Te
Starting with nice weather along the shore and everywhere across the area. Temperatures are warming up too. 75 in wildwood. Also Atlantic City millville, philadelphia coming in close to 80 degrees right now. Areas north and west about the mid70s at the moment. As we go through today, were going to keep these drier conditions in the forecast. Thats going to give us more sunshine than we had yesterday for sure. Locally, though we have a few clouds trying to move into parts of delaware and south jersey. Its part of this weather system to our south. So for today, most of the rain will be holding off to our south. As we go into the weekend, we are talking about our increasing rain chances. Heres future weather. Clouds move in today, but tomorrow thats when the clouds and more rain starts to move in. For saturday more cloud cover scattered throughout the day. Well watch closely for your fireworks plans. As we go into the rest of the afternoon, by noon 80 degrees. By 3 00 p. M. 82 degrees. Te
Starting with nice weather along the shore and everywhere across the area. Temperatures are warming up too. 75 in wildwood. Also Atlantic City millville, philadelphia coming in close to 80 degrees right now. Areas north and west about the mid70s at the moment. As we go through today, were going to keep these drier conditions in the forecast. Thats going to give us more sunshine than we had yesterday for sure. Locally, though we have a few clouds trying to move into parts of delaware and south jersey. Its part of this weather system to our south. So for today, most of the rain will be holding off to our south. As we go into the weekend, we are talking about our increasing rain chances. Heres future weather. Clouds move in today, but tomorrow thats when the clouds and more rain starts to move in. For saturday more cloud cover scattered throughout the day. Well watch closely for your fireworks plans. As we go into the rest of the afternoon, by noon 80 degrees. By 3 00 p. M. 82 degrees. Te