In 1865 the museum reconstructed the Quaker Meeting House from beams thought to be original to the First Church. The Peabody Essex Museum has been a pioneer in the acquisition, relocation, restoration, and interpretation of historic environments. Here you will find a unique collection of buildings, gardens, and architectural fragments spanning three centuries. The museum’s physical campus includes three city blocks and several off-site properties. “The revenge of the North!” he says.Ropes Mansion Tours (318 Essex Street): Self-guided house tours of the Ropes Mansion every Saturday and Sunday from Noon-4 pm through October 23, 2022. “Too much tandoori chicken last night.” Whereupon Birk chuckles softly into his beard. People begin to notice Punky asleep in Birk’s arms. We’re sitting in the darkness, while our guide pretends to conjure up the dead. Just for fun we decide to attend a faux séance in a make-believe church. Hardly anyone notices that the black-and-white animal at the end of a smart red leash is capable of emptying an auditorium with one blast from his anal scent-glands. We bought Punky a cat-harness so that he can walk around with us. There are historical sites as well as hokey recreations of the 17th-century witch-trials.
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The small city is full of various witch-flavoured activities aimed at tourists. Before Bins can present his fantasy version of history, wholly centred upon the “little Gaulish village of Pondicherry”, I tell them both to shut up, “-or I’ll put a spell on both of you, using my superior female powers,” I say, pointing to the silhouettes of witches riding broomsticks that have been appearing on road signs, as we approach Salem. Bins roars back with, “NEVER! Not in Salem, not in the sacred South -” and launches into a tirade against the savages of North India where, according to him, everything short of cannibalism was the norm.īirk is of course unaware of the Indian North-South divide. “In YOUR Salem, they didn’t need to burn witches coz they just used widows instead!” He’s talking about the practice of sati. Bins says, “Ho! In YOUR Salem, they were making witch-kababs! In MY Salem, girls can run around with flowers in their hair and sing songs and no-one says anything.”īut Birk has been doing his own research into the facts and foibles of Indian social history.
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Bins and Birk have been having a series of arguments of the ‘My Country’s Better/Worse Than Your Country’ variety. “They were messing around and when they were questioned, they blamed the Devil.” He’s at the wheel, but he turns his head slightly towards me in the back. “I bet those girls were just havin’ fun,” he says. “So, Punky! Isn’t MY Salem better than YOUR Salem?” Punky gives a noncommittal sigh and settles back into sleep, but Birk feels the need to defend his ancestral neighbourhood. Temples.” Punky, the skunk, who has become so tame and relaxed around us that we no longer tie his tail down to prevent him from spraying, stirs and looks around. “No witches there,” he says, looking it up on Birk’s smartphone.
“But he lived somewhere around here.” This seems a good enough reason to make the detour, so we do.īins tells us there’s a Salem in Tamil Nadu too. “One of my ancestors was killed in the witch trials.” “Really?” I say, instantly interested.
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