Today. With the winds coming down fire crews have up containment to 15 . The flames have destroyed even more structures. A total of 123. 57 of those are homes. Over 90,000 structures are also threatened. Governor newsom visited the fire crews a cal fires base camp in santa rosa. He commended them frakes thing wishing 330 fires across the state. In just 24 hours. He said fires like these should not be the new normal. But the community is resilient. The sense of spirit and pride of this community is palpable. It is demonstrable. The ice of the volunteers. And the people being served. And our children. Our seniors that are being taken care of. The most vulnerable. In the last hour cal fire has expanded an evacuation warning for parts of lake county. People in western Sonoma County people who live in the blue area are now being allowed to go home. They are still under an evacuation warning. For other people they dont even know how long they will be out of their homes. Andrea is live at an
The trial, and to some degrees, thats what were talking about this afternoon in our sessions on witch city and also our keynote speech by professor foote on gallows hill. Just one thought for me before i introduce the panel for the panel discussion, and that is that its my sincere hope that the work of the past couple years to recognize the execution site at proctors ledge can hopefully be a new start, a fresh beginning for salem to really recognize officially and formally this troubled history. And i just want to say, i probably should have said this this morning when the mayor was here, but the mayor and her staff, and everyone in the city of salem, i think, has just been incredibly supportive. When we first came forward to them as a member of the gallows hill team and told them that we had the execution site, i didnt know what the response would be. And some of us were saying, like mary and i were saying, wow, how are we gonna raise money to build the memorial and what do we do . An
The trial, and to some degrees, thats what were talking about this afternoon in our sessions on witch city and also our keynote speech by professor foote on gallows hill. Just one thought for me before i introduce the panel for the panel discussion, and that is that its my sincere hope that the work of the past couple years to recognize the execution site at proctors ledge can hopefully be a new start, a fresh beginning for salem to really recognize officially and formally this troubled history. And i just want to say, i probably should have said this this morning when the mayor was here, but the mayor and her staff, and everyone in the city of salem, i think, has just been incredibly supportive. When we first came forward to them as a member of the gallows hill team and told them that we had the execution site, i didnt know what the response would be. And some of us were saying, like mary and i were saying, wow, how are we gonna raise money to build the memorial and what do we do . An
And she can correct me in a few minutes. So tourism in new england began in the colonial era. Ford was the first great tourist city, followed by a city near boston. Beginf tourism cannot until the 1840s, coinciding with industrialization. Salems tourism lagged. We were not a Tourist Destination. If we wanted to, we went to the scenesn a lighted that 1879, there was a Steam Railway which was in salem. There was also a horse drawn trolley that went down at six street essex street. There,ere gazebos down the methodist summer camp changed over to be secondhome ownership. The wealthy of salem lived there. A small secondtier tourism destination in the 1880s. It is not lost that this was the home of the witchcraft hysteria in 1692. It was always part of our history. Apparently, in the 1880s, both the witch house, and the old goal of the basement remained. It was on federal street. Now since gone. Theyre both private residences. And you can arrange to visit both places. And that was perhaps th
I will say about the title. That was almost the title for me book. And i was pleased actually when the gang thought it would be a good title for this day. It seems to me the trials of 1692ment as we all know those of us who live and work and hang around salem that there are other trials that are related to the trial. And to some degrees thats what were talking about this afternoon. And our sessions on witch city and keynote speech by professor foot on hill. Just one thought from me before i introduce the panel, and that is that its my sincere hope that the work of the past couple years to recognize the execution site of proctors ledge and hopefully be a new start of fresh beginning for salem to really recognize officially and formally this troubled troubled history. And i just want to say i probably should have said this this morning. But the mayor and her staff and everyone in the city of salem i think has just been incredibly supportive. When we first came forward to them and told th