Harvard Divinity School Professor, David D. Hall will present a lecture about witch hunts at the Fairfield Museum
On Sunday, November 1 at 2pm the Fairfield Museum invites you to come hear a fascinating lecture on the Fairfield witch-hunt of 1692 – 1693 with Harvard Divinity School Professor, David D. Hall. Learn about the witch-hunts that went beyond Salem to the extensive Stamford-Fairfield, Connecticut hunts of 1692-93 and understand the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England. Encounter witch-hunts through the eyes of those who participated in them: the accusers, the victims, and the judges. Hear in vivid detail a multi-dimensional story that conveys not only the process of witch-hunting but also the complexity of culture and society in early America. Attendees will understand the deep-rooted attitudes and the revealing tensions, anger, envy, and misfortune that underlay communal life and family relationships within New England’s small towns and villages. Drawing from his book, Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England, David D. Hall will address a wide range of important issues: witchcraft lore, antagonistic social relationships, the vulnerability of women, religious ideologies, popular and learned understandings of witchcraft and the devil, and the role of the legal system. Fee: $5 for members of the Fairfield Museum, $7 for non-members. For additional details, visit www.fairfieldhs.org and to make your reservation, please call the museum at 203-259-1598. This lecture is sponsored by the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and is free for members of the DAR and CAR.
David D. Hall is Professor of American Religious History at the Harvard Divinity School. His published works include Lived Religion in America: Towards a History of Practice; Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment; Popular Religious Belief in Early New England; The Faithful Sheppard: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century and Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England. He lives in Arlington, Massachusets.
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