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re: Salem, I want to reiterate that the official historical stuff is serious. The industry around it not so much.

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Jul 22 '10, 16:26

However, the town does not exactly discourage it.

I get that marketing and branding is important. But when I saw a lot of kids running around wearing witch hats, I was icked.

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that's what I was thinking of. there was some stuff that seemed more appopriate for a place like the harry potter theme park. -- nm - b. Jul 22, 16:40 1
- growing up in that area, I really got into the history of the trials. - loosilu Jul 22, 16:49
Yeah, and that witch on a broomstick painted on the streets thing is pretty dumb. -- nm - CovingtonCat Jul 22, 16:29
If I go to the beach and see kids wearing pirate hats and eye patches, I'm all for it. -- nm - Max Jul 22, 16:28 3
- To be fair, the pirates of lore really were pirates -- nm - con_carne Jul 22, 16:31 2
  - right, and one might complain that celebrating murderers is awful. But I think pirates are cool, so thumbs up. witch hats too. -- nm - Max Jul 22, 16:33 1
    - it might be the same if they were falsely convicted of being pirates. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 16:35

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re: Salem, I want to reiterate that the official historical stuff is serious. The industry around it not so much.

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