The Peabody Essex Museum recently announced its lineup of new exhibits and programs for 2026, including exhibits celebrating the 400th anniversary of Salem’s founding, and a new exhibition ...

(Mass Appeal) - Tucked in the bucolic central Massachusetts town of New Salem sits a restored school that now houses both an art museum and art academy. Michael Klein, the Director, and Laura Barletta ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD — Years before people accused of being witches were tortured, tried and hanged in Salem, witch hysteria swept through Springfield when a prominent couple began acting strangely in the eyes ...

When 19 people were hung for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693, they sealed the city’s identity forever as “the Witch City.” That’s reinforced daily by Salem ...