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Red-tailed hawk staring down at camera.
08/10/2005    
S. M. Smoller     e-mail

 

The Higgins Middle School
has adopted the FISH philosophy.

 

 
Home of the Higgins Hawks
Using keen vision and fierce hunting skills to SOAR (Seek Out Appropriate Resources)
Witch Hysteria 1692 -Local Resources
 Corey Stones at Crystal Lake, September 22, 1992. The inscriptions read:
Pious, Outspoken, Steadfast
          Martha Corey
             A Martyr of the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
                     Hanged at age 60 on September 22, 1692

   "I am an innocent person. I never had to do with
 witchcraft since I was born. I am a Gospel woman."

                    "She laught & denied it." 

 
Irascible, Unyielding, Defiant
                                            Giles Corey
                A Martyr of the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria

Died under the torture of stone weights at age 81

                                    September 19, 1692

 
Speech 1992: Martha Corey by S.M. Smoller Witchcraft Accusations in Peabody by Ann Z. Birkner
History of Witchcraft Haunts Old Saw Mill by S.M. Smoller Giles Corey's Dream: A Ballad of 1692 by Fitch Poole, Jr.
Witch Dance and Banquet on Gallows Hill by Fitch Poole, Jr.