Salem Massachusetts

We travelled through Hartford, Connecticut to Salem, Massachusetts. We are staying right on the harbour and have a wonderful view of sail ships and have our own beach. We are on Winter Island and the name of the beach is Waikiki. Today we walked into town (about 1 ½ miles) and visited this historic site. We had not originally planned to come here but ran into some people who recommended it. So glad we came. This is the place where they had the Salem Witch Trials back in the 1700’s. The town is full of the history of pirates and the so called witches. It is quite sad really to find out it was just a bunch of  Puritan girls playing that started all the hysteria. In total 19 innocent people were put to death. Also a lot of pirates came here and buried their booty. They have found some as late as 1985. We should stay here and dig! We also happened to be here on a weekend when they were doing re-enactments of the war. There were a lot of people dressed up in English uniforms with muskets and they put on quite a show. A ferry leaves right from town and crosses over into Boston so that is where we are off to next.