Blessed Days...In His Hands: Boston

Here we are Boston!

First stop, Gloucester

Today speaking vision over Dev. You have such capacity

to love and you don't have to "dole" it out. With Bobo,

she can give mostly when she is in a really good place or

it is working for her. Isn't that like most of us?

What is my capacity to love? Today I just wanted

to send everyone away to think about their attitudes. But

I stayed in it and asked a curious question about the

direction they went with one another.

It makes me ask the same thing. What is my capacity

to love? What happens when I get tot h end of myself?

(thoughts I had one day before our trip)

This was such a lovely stop, a beautiful path.

We camped out here for a bit.

Oh, I love seeing beautiful sights, even flowers on balconies.

Salem

We learned about the Salem Witch trials,

a very sad historical event.

The Salem Witch Trials

When we were in Salem we decided to go to the Salem Witch Trials National Park and the memorial, it was very interesting and I learned a lot. I gathered information both from the film that was shown and from the internet when I returned home.

“The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of the United States."

“New England had been settled by religious refugees seeking to build a pure, Bible-based society and neighbors considered the population (of Salem) as “quarrelsome.” After three ministers has left the town of Salem due to unknown reason, the fourth minister, Samuel Parris came to the town to become the new minister. After some doubts from the congregation, he was ordained. The “witch hunt” began when Parris’s daughter, niece, and other girls started to accusing townspeople of witchcraft. “The girls screamed, threw things about the room, uttered strange sounds, crawled under furniture, and contorted themselves into peculiar positions, according to the eyewitness account of Rev. Deodat Lawson, a former minister in Salem Village.The girls complained of being pinched and pricked with pins. A doctor historically assumed to be William Griggs,could find no physical evidence of any ailment. Other young women in the village began to exhibit similar behaviors. The first three people accused and arrested for allegedly afflicting Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, 12-year-old Ann Putnam, Jr., and Elizabeth Hubbard,were Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba being the first. Some historians believe that the accusation by Ann Putnam Jr. suggests that a family feud may have been a major cause of the witch trials. At the time, a vicious rivalry was underway between the Putnam and Porter families, one which deeply polarized the people of Salem. Citizens would often have heated debates, which escalated into full-fledged fighting, based solely on their opinion of the feud.

(Dev's travel journal)