![]() ![]() Trask’s article traces that evolution to when the town is named Danvers after an English nobleman, which was a common practice back then. Ironically, it took another 60 years, until 1752, before the Salem Villagers were allowed to become a separate town, for a number of political reasons. Many historians, like Boyer and Nissenbaum, believe-and I would agree too-one of the triggers that caused the Salem witch trials was the inability to split off from Salem in 1692. He talks about the whole process of when Danvers finally was allowed to split off from Salem in 1752. I actually quote it in my book, A Storm of Witchcraft. In one he has written about how Danvers became a town. Richard Trask, the town archivist of Danvers, has posted on the Danvers Archival Center website various articles and materials. Baker: I think Danvers has very deliberately chosen a separate path. Do you think it’s because of the way, like you said earlier, “Gallows Hill cast a large and dark shadow on Salem”?ĭr. Of course, Danvers has its memorial but it’s kind of out of place and hidden. Kayleigh: Danvers, Massachusetts, is almost disassociated with the 1692 Salem witch trials. Baker on the triumph and tragedy of the 1692 Salem witch trials as part of the 2019 National History Day contest. ![]() A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience.A student interview with Professor Emerson W.The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England ISBN 1-4039-7207-9 (2007). ![]() American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega ISBN 0-8032-4554-8 (1995).The Clarke & Lake Company: The Historical Archaeology of a Seventeenth-Century Maine Settlement ASIN B001U7I9A0 (1985).He joined the faculty of Salem State College in September 1994.Ī specialist in the history of seventeenth century Maine, Baker has been featured as an expert consultant on the PBS mini-series Colonial House he has also provided historical consultation for Parks Canada, National Geographic, Plimoth Plantation, National Park Service, Historic Salem Inc., Beverly Historical Society and many historic district commissions." He has also served as an expert witness for archaeological matters in several court cases in Nova Scotia and Maine. įrom 1988 to 1994, Baker served as executive director of the York Institute Museum and Dyer Library. in history (with a dissertation on failed Anglo-Indian relations in early Maine) from the College of William & Mary under the guidance of James Axtell. After graduating from Bates with a BA in history in 1980, he received his MA in history (with a concentration in historical archaeology) from the University of Maine at Orono in 1983. Before attending Bates College in Lewiston, Maine (where he would later meet his wife and play/lead the rugby club), Baker spent a year in the United Kingdom studying at Cranleigh School, where he learned to play rugby. He currently resides in York, Maine.īaker was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1958 and attended Applewild School and Phillips Academy. He is well known in academic circles for his extensive work on witchcraft in Colonial America, as well as for his work on numerous archaeological sites along the East Coast of the United States. Emerson " Tad" Baker II (born ) is a historical archaeologist and professor of history at Salem State University. ![]()
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