Today. Were all here, obviously, because of Bridget Bishop and her battle of victims 1692, the long summer and hot fall of 1692. This is the 325th anniversary of those events. As a history professor, i am sometimes reticent to indulge in what i call anniversary history. Because i like my students to think that every single day is historic. But it does feel right to take a moment, take a day, and really think about what happened during that year. So thats what were doing today. The city of salem is going to be doing probably all summer long. Before i introduce our distinguished guest who is doing to open up our symposium, the mayor of salem, kimberley driscoll, i want to say thanks before i forget to thank everybody at the end while were wrapping up this day. Im going to thank all of the presenters for their contributions. But right now, i just 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 g
Today. Were all here, obviously, because of Bridget Bishop and her battle of victims 1692, the long summer and hot fall of 1692. This is the 325th anniversary of those events. As a history professor, i am sometimes reticent to indulge in what i call anniversary history. Because i like my students to think that every single day is historic. But it does feel right to take a moment, take a day, and really think about what happened during that year. So thats what were doing today. The city of salem is going to be doing probably all summer long. Before i introduce our distinguished guest who is doing to open up our symposium, the mayor of salem, kimberley driscoll, i want to say thanks before i forget to thank everybody at the end while were wrapping up this day. Im going to thank all of the presenters for their contributions. But right now, i just 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 g
Today. Were all here, obviously, because of Bridget Bishop and her battle of victims 1692, the long summer and hot fall of 1692. This is the 325th anniversary of those events. As a history professor, i am sometimes reticent to indulge in what i call anniversary history. Because i like my students to think that every single day is historic. But it does feel right to take a moment, take a day, and really think about what happened during that year. So thats what were doing today. The city of salem is going to be doing probably all summer long. Before i introduce our distinguished guest who is doing to open up our symposium, the mayor of salem, kimberley driscoll, i want to say thanks before i forget to thank everybody at the end while were wrapping up this day. Im going to thank all of the presenters for their contributions. But right now, i just 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 g
Today. Were all here, obviously, because of Bridget Bishop and her battle of victims 1692, the long summer and hot fall of 1692. This is the 325th anniversary of those events. As a history professor, i am sometimes reticent to indulge in what i call anniversary history. Because i like my students to think that every single day is historic. But it does feel right to take a moment, take a day, and really think about what happened during that year. So thats what were doing today. The city of salem is going to be doing probably all summer long. Before i introduce our distinguished guest who is doing to open up our symposium, the mayor of salem, kimberley driscoll, i want to say thanks before i forget to thank everybody at the end while were wrapping up this day. Im going to thank all of the presenters for their contributions. But right now, i just 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 g
From eddie murphy movies. So, of course, everyone who lived in brooklyn were vampires, and if you wanted to find the clean, you would go to queens, of course. , we are going to export more about flushing, queens, is community, its microcosm of world religions. Before we begin, just a little bit about our author. Has lang r. Scott hanson a phd from the university of chicago. He is but most of his adult life thinking about pluralism in the world, but most of it from the neighborhood of flushing, queens, in new york city of course. He has studied acting and the university, sunni, the university of pennsylvania. Inis currently a lecturer history at the university of pennsylvania. He has studied at the the universityy, of pennsylvania. Ladies and german, please join ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming ruth tonight. Cott hanson [applause] all right. Good evening and welcome. That i should add tonights talk will be filmed by American History tv on cspan3. So, during the question