A day spent in Salem, Massachusetts known for the Witch Trials, but importantly in the county of Essex. Bottom right is Roger Conant (1592-1679) the first settler of Salem in 1626.
After a cream cheese bagel we went to the Satanic Temple.
Members of the Satanic Temple used a statue of the occult deity Baphomet to protest a Ten Commandments monument in Little Rock, Ark.
The 8.5-foot-tall statue, which depicts the winged half-goat, half-man, with two children at its side, was briefly installed in front of the State Capitol building on Thursday as a symbol of free speech and plurality of beliefs, organizers told NPR. It was also meant to protest the explicitly Christian values promoted by a Ten Commandments monument on Capitol grounds, in keeping with the Satanic Temple’s belief that religious displays should not be placed on public property. — Time.Com
After it did its job, it moved to Salem.
There’s a statue of Elizabeth Montgomery who played the witch Samantha in the show “Bewitched”. There’s some debate as to whether it belittles what happened to the women killed as witches and a couple of cameras check for vandalism.
The Gardner–Pingree House is a historic house museum at 128 Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts. It is judged to be a masterpiece of Federal architecture by the noted Salem builder Samuel McIntire, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972 for its architectural significance. — Wikipedia
Through into New Hampshire, and out of the other side into Maine. States 43, and 44.
