Go anywhere in the country and tell people you’re from Salem, Massachusetts. Guaranteed you’ll get the following response: “Oh, the witches?” That’s the one. (This actually happened to me this past summer while I was giving the camp director at my niece’s sleepaway camp my address.) Long associated with all things spooky, Salem is a city that both plays up its dark past in a monthlong celebration of Halloween—the annual Haunted Happenings festival that takes place every October—and educates both its residents and its visitors about what can happen when we let fear get the best of us, u
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