"A Season with the Witch" Author Talk at PEM

Event Description

"A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem" Author Talk
Peabody Essex Museum
161 Essex St. Salem, MA
Saturday, October 13th, 2018
12:00pm-1:00pm

Tickets $10-$20

You might think Salem’s weird, but the city’s weirder than you think. That’s what author J.W. Ocker discovered when he moved to the strangest city in the country during its strangest season for his book, A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem. It’s not a straight line between a bizarre 17th-century tragedy and Salem’s place today as Witch City, Halloween Town, and constantly conflicted. Drawing from his own personal experiences, his research, and his interviews with everyone from street performers to the mayor to, yes, plenty of witches, J.W. Ocker tells the real story of how Salem got so freakin’ weird…and why he hopes it never changes.