Despite the display’s mass appeal, “Cunning Folk” defies expectations. Historically, most media themed around witches has reduced them to their oppression. The Cantor’s exhibition instead encourages ...

The classic works from the early years of the country still provide the creative spark that inspires those who carry the ...

Riley Rourke is a digital producer for CBS Boston. She has worked at WBZ-TV since graduating from Emerson College in 2023. It was a night of ghosts and gusts in Salem, Massachusetts as visitors from ...

NORTH ANDOVER — As tens of thousands of revelers descend on Salem, Mass., every Halloween because of the witch trials of 1692 and 1693, towns in the Merrimack Valley have stories seldom heard, ...

Three hundred and thirty-three (half of another number of note) years ago, there was trouble in Salem, Massachusetts. Twenty-five people were killed, and about another hundred and fifty were ...

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire is often overlooked when it comes to witchcraft, despite its own thorny history of accusing women of practicing the forbidden form of magic. That’s according to historian ...

October is go-time in the Witch City. But on the first day of the month, leaders in Salem, Mass. confronted a potentially scary problem as the government shutdown closed a visitor center — and its ...

Rebecca Fowler was an indentured servant in Annapolis in the late 1600s, working the land for years until she and her husband were finally lucky enough to own a plot of land. However, her luck ran out ...

I visited Salem, Massachusetts, recently with some of my kids. It seemed like an appropriate Halloween kind of trip, despite a lot of the obvious tourist trappings of the town of Salem itself. Like ...

With fall in full swing, New Englanders everywhere are picking the last apples of the season and starting to prepare for Halloween. At Massachusetts' oldest apple orchard, you can do both. Founded ...

The title character in “Becky Nurse of Salem” (Brenny Campbell, right) faces the court in her Massachusetts hometown, much as her ancestor did during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. The Rep’s production ...