Presented as part of Herstory Arts Festival, Rebecca McNamee’s (Playwright & Director) ABIGAIL WILLIAMS is a response to ...

Witches are having a moment. Beyond the hit musical Wicked, there TikTok Hashtags and millions of posts celebrating witches as icons of empowerment, mystery, and resistance. It's far from the dark ...

In more recent memory, theocratic regimes from Iran to Afghanistan have shown the cost of governing through religious absolutism. No one is suggesting Alabama is headed for full theocracy—but when ...

Others wondered if the standoffishness they’ve encountered had deeper roots, going back to the region’s self-reliant Puritan settlers ... to South Portland from Salem, Massachusetts, in ...

"There's now a complete consensus that the popular image of the Puritans is almost totally inaccurate," said Mary Beth Norton, a professor of American history at Cornell University and author of "In ...

Drew Carleton, head bartender at Puritan & Co., recommends: Ledger in Salem for a well-rounded mocktail that pairs hibiscus, pink peppercorn, and lemon. “The spices round out what would otherwis ...

Even the dour Puritan minister Cotton Mather, fearful enough of sin and subversion to help purge Salem of witches, believed that alcohol, used in moderation, could be "a Creature of God." ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...