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Before Salem, there was Springfield: New exhibit explores ‘Witch Panic’ in mid-1600s western Mass

Around 50 years before the infamous Salem witch trials, fear of witches first plagued the colonial people of western Massachusetts.  In the enterprising settlement of Springfield, founder and fur trader William Pynchon and his colleague, Rev. George Moxon, attempted to lead a pious industrial town right next to the Connecticut River against ravishing hardship. Terminal […]

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