Christianity and Pynchon

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Tue Aug 6 06:07:03 CDT 2002


vze422fs at verizon.net wrote:

> >>> In Salem they hanged them, not burned them.
> >>>
> >>> P.
> >>
>
> Not to nitpick or anything, but they hanged them in Danvers.

Correct and a lot of water under the bridge since 1692.

P.

(from the Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Danvers

own (township), Essex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies
                                    just northeast of Boston. Founded in the 1630s
by Governor John
                                    Endecott, it was part of Salem and originally
known as Salem Village
                                    (site of the witchcraft hysteria of 1692). Set
off from Salem as a district in 1752, it
                                    was incorporated in 1775 (a 1757 act of
incorporation had been invalidated
                                    because of supposed opposition by the British
king George II) and renamed for the
                                    Danvers Osborne family of New York. In 1855
South Danvers became a separate
                                    town, and it was renamed Peabody in 1868.
Shoemaking, carpet making,
                                    and brickmaking were early industries. The
service sector accounts for the largest
                       share of employment in Danvers, but electronic equipment,
lamps, computer software, and
                       telecommunications equipment are also produced. Danvers is
the site of North Shore Community College
                       (1965). Many colonial homes have been restored, and the town
is the birthplace of the Revolutionary War
                       leader General Israel Putnam. The Witchcraft Victims'
Memorial lists the names of those who
                       were executed during the Salem witch trials of 1692. Area 14
square miles (36 square km). Pop. (1990)


P.




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