Boston - Day 6

BOSTON - Day 6

Today Craig is picking us up for a trip to Salem and we’re going to see his place outside of Boston.

Craig picked us up and we made the short trip up the coast to Salem, Massachusetts, famous for the Witch Trials in 1692.  We parked near the wharf and followed a red line painted on the sidewalk for a self-guided tour of Salem.   Just a couple of blocks from where we parked was a long pier and boathouse.  The air was pretty cool with the breeze coming off the water.   Craig said there used to be a large old ship parked there that wasn’t there today.

We continued down the road past a bunch of shops and restaurants toward the House of the Seven Gables, made famous by the book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, who also wrote The Scarlet Letter.  On the way, we saw a squirrel which had been placed in a trance-like state by a witch.

We arrived just minutes before the next tour and met in the foreroom of the house with a few other folks.  The house was refurbished in the early 1900’s, but many of the original wood and furnishings remained.  The rooms had low ceilings and there was a secret staircase and secret doors as you wind through the house.  Bix loved the tour and wants to read the book.

Next we headed across town to the Witch Museum.  Craig had already been a couple of times so he waited in the large park near the museum while we went in – it was about a 30-40 minute presentation which recounted the events leading up to the Salem Witch trials.  TIP:  Sit in the middle.

After the Museum we went to a restaurant called Rockafellas – the food was pretty good – I had a Wachusett Blueberry beer – which looked and tasted like a Bud Light with a few blueberries thrown in it.  We spent the rest of the day looking in shops and buying souvenirs.  Shellie had us take a picture of her next to a ghoul and when she stepped next to it, it booed her and she ran away - see picture :) 

In total, the number of witches spotted was somewhere between 5 and 30.

View from Craig's balcony

After Salem we drove back to Craig’s house where the kids declined to go swimming.  Brooke took a nap and Bix played on his phone which Craig and I went over some band stuff to prepare for our third album.

 















After a couple of hours, Craig took us home and we ate in the room.