Connecticut Witch Trials at GPL

Event Date: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Did you know the first hanging of an American charged with witchcraft happened in CONNECTICUT?

And that it happened 45 years before the executions of the Salem Witch Trials?

Join us on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26th at 4:30PM as Beth Caruso, award-winning author and co-founder of the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project, lectures about our state’s history of witch persecution and ultimately, redemption.  

Copies of both of Beth’s books will be available for purchase and signing: One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging, and its sequel, The Salty Rose: Alchemists, Witches & A Tapper In New Amsterdam.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Kindly email frontdesk@goshenpublib.org or call 860-491-3234.

 

This program made possible through the generosity and support of the Friends of the Goshen Public Library.