Join Connecticut historical novelist and researcher Beth M. Caruso as she discusses the colonial witch trials in the Connecticut River Valley with a special emphasis on the connections between the Windsor and Springfield witch trial cases. Her well-researched novels in The Connecticut Witch Trials Trilogy are based on real events and people from this era. She explores the first witch trial accusations in Windsor and elsewhere in the Connecticut River Valley which led to the convictions and deaths of at least eleven people between 1647 and 1663. Beth will also recount the process of passing Resolution HJ 34 in the Connecticut General Assembly in May 2023, current legislative efforts for Massachusetts victims apart from the Salem witch trials, and their pertinence for modern witch hunt victims in over sixty countries in present-day.
Presented by Beth M. Caruso, author, researcher, and co-founder, CT WITCH Memorial
Join us in-person or online!
If you plan to attend in person at the Museums, tickets are available on the day of the lecture in the Welcome Center.
Members: FREE
Springfield residents: $4
Nonmembers: $4
To attend via ZOOM, please register in advance.
