It seems a little cheap that the basis of your tourism industry is "witches" being killed 330 years ago.

Like Lexington and Concord made the modern US come to be and Salem killed innocent people, so Salem gets to host Halloween? I mean by that logic OG Halloween must be in Golgotha, Israel. /s

What a weird axe to grind.

It would be rather difficult to. The witchcraft connection makes it easy to develop Halloween tourism. Without it, there's little that connects the city with Halloween and the city would be much worse off. People might complain about the tourists, but Salem could possibly resemble Lynn without all of the cash that's brought in year round.

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Do you actually believe Jesus was the first innocent ever to be put to death?

Salem is where the witch trials took place, but Danvers (was called Salem Village) is actually where the most of the persons involved lived and where most of the hysteria was centered around. Danvers doesn't hype the connection, and is hardly a poor town.

Poor Danvers. That's where it all happened, but Salem gets all the tourism bucks and Danvers is left with... McKinnon's, I guess.

> It seems a little cheap that the basis of your tourism industry is "witches" being killed 330 years ago.

I have Rome holding on Line 1...

Mostly rock crushing

No one is innocent, it's just some are more guilty than others.

Danvers (then called Salem village) was the epicenter of the witch trails.