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by Kate Fox
Lappin Park at Corner of Essex and Washington Streets
Walk just a few blocks on Essex Street, back toward the museum, and make one more stop in Lappin Park at the corner of Washington and Essex Streets. We’ll meet at the Samantha statue.
Thank you for taking the Salem Witch Trials Walk at PEM. This tour was generously supported by the George S. Parker Fund.
by Dinah Cardin
Join host Dinah Cardin on this tour of PEM’s materials from the Salem witch trials. With walking time, the entire tour should take about 90 minutes, but go at your own pace.
Begin on the ground level of the light-filled atrium, at the tour sign outside the Putnam Gallery of Native American and American Art. Here, you’ll listen to some background about Salem in 1692. Listen with headphones, earbuds or by holding up your phone with the volume on low.
by Dinah Cardin
Now it's time to go inside the Putnam Gallery. Go to the halfway point of the Native American and American installation where you'll see a sign on the wall that says Salem Witch Trials. Take a look at the glass case to the right of the Salem Witch Trials Sign where you’ll see a document.
by Dinah Cardin
Now, we move to this dramatic oil painting directly above the case.
by Sarah Chasse
Now look to the lower left of the painting, where you’ll see the walking stick.
by Sarah Chasse
Move to the right of the painting where there is a small cabinet in a case.
by Sarah Chasse
by Paula Richter
Exit this gallery and go up the stairs to level two. Go around the curved hallway overlooking the Atrium and then make a left into the gallery. Look up and you’ll see a mezzanine. Go up the historic staircase. If you need the elevator, take it to level three and we’ll meet you there.
by Paula Richter
Look up at a movie poster from a beloved movie that was filmed partly in Salem.
by Paula Richter
We move to the letter L, which is to the left of where we are now.
by Paula Richter
by Dan Lipcan
24 Liberty Street
Once you've finished touring Salem Stories, it's time to leave the museum and head outside to some key sites around the Witch City. We begin right behind the museum at the Salem Witch Trials Memorial on Liberty Street.
Exit the front of the museum, turn right and right again to go down the Axelrod Pedestrian Walkway. Make a right at the end and the memorial is on your left.
by Dan Lipcan
51 Charter Street
Right next door to the memorial for the Salem Witch Trials is one of the oldest cemeteries in the United States. Go now and enter the Charter Street Cemetery at the corner of the memorial. Stay on the gravel path. Keep going at the first little intersection and then stop at the second one, where there's a light stone. We’ll meet you there.
by Steven Mallory
9 Brown Street
Our next stop is the 17th century historic property called the Ward House. We will walk back to the front of the museum on Essex Street and behind the National Park Service Visitor Center to find several historic structures, including the darkly painted Ward House.
by Steven Mallory
310 Essex Street
Now, we’ll walk to another house that looks a lot like the Ward House and is referred to now as The Witch House, located at 310 Essex Street. It’s less than half a mile away.
by Steven Mallory
318 Essex Street
The next stop is the Ropes Mansion a few doors down at 318 Essex Street.