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Northshore October 2025
The Salem Witch Trials continue to be an ongoing source of interest 331 years after they ended, as anyone who’s even passed through Salem can tell you. But they also continue to be a source of news. Earlier this year, a huge cache of 527 original, handwritten court documents were transferred from the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) to their permanent home at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court archives in Boston. And in 2022, a group of North Andover eighth graders successfully petitioned state legislators to finally exonerate Elizabeth Johnson Jr., making her the last convicted “witch” to be officially cleared of wrongdoing.
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