Yesterday my daughter and I took some time out from our busy lives to visit Salem.  If you haven't been, it is a fun place to explore.  I enjoy/appreciate the musuems and I get a kick out of the tacky "witchy" stuff.  Yes, I am one of those witches and maybe this is a slightly controversial subject, but there is a part of me that loves all the stuff they come up with.  Some things are REALLY tacky and make me laugh, yet some things are cool.....where else can you get a black glass shot glass with a pentacle saying Earth Air Fire Water and Spirit???  (yes, I got one and yes, it is already on one of my home altars).  From postcards to bumperstickers and tee-shirts....you could easily be overwhelmed.

We took the time to visit some of the musuems ( we have been to all the museums before so we just went to one newer one we hadn't seen before) and went to the Witches Dungeon.  This museum had live actors reenacting an actual witch trail  (the script is taken from court records) and then there is a tour through the recreated dungeons that real people were kept in.  Very intense and entirely eye opening.

We also went to the cemetery, Burying Point. This was a very peaceful place and the Spirits of Place felt strong and powerful with incredible, old trees growing, watching over.

Then we took our leisure exploring all sorts of wonderful stores similar to AwenTree and that was just a whole lot of fun.  I enjoy being able to be in the wonderful energy created by folks with a similar dream/vision and relax in their stores.  

After hours of following the "red line" painted on the cobblestones to find the historic places, coffee and icecream, we were ready to return to western ma.