Keep this book in mind as summer winds down and October appears, teasingly, on the horizon.Ĭomment threads are monitored for 48 hours after publication and then closed. But he's funny as hell comes up with historical and cultural and civic angles that go well beyond the surface, "every day's Halloween" tourist focus and is a fluidly great writer. Not only did he have the idea to experience every possible aspect of Haunted Happenings and write a book about it all, but he also took his entire family as part of the fun. As one who's taken many out-of-town visitors to Salem during Haunted Happenings, I am profoundly jealous of Ocker. Ocker, wherein he describes spending an entire October in Salem, Mass., aka The Witch City - and of course a community that hosts Haunted Happenings, a month-long celebration of the community's sorta greasy history of putting several humans to death for witchery. But Salem is a seasonal town-and its season happens to be Halloween. A single event in its 400 years of history-the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. I've been reading "A Season with the Witch" by J.W. Salem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. Only 264 days till Halloween! Yes, that's too far away, even for me.
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