Spooky season is here, and to get us into the Halloween holiday spirit, we’re travelling to the spookiest town of them all — Salem, Massachusetts!
Join us for a virtual visit to the scene of the famous 1692 witch trials, a town where a Witch Dungeon Museum doesn’t raise an eyebrow and the neighborhood pharmacy sells a newt’s eye... or not! Learn all about the real-life history and mystic tales of this North Shore haven that draws half a million visitors for its October Haunted Happenings each year from our guide Scott Whitmore, a bona fide son of a witch (and we’ll tell what that actually means!) So bring your hocus and your pocus, your eldritch fascinations and all of the bone-chilling questions you can dare to ask – see you at our first Halloween event of the season!
We’ll be streaming this event on October 25 at 5:30 p.m. in English to our Facebook and YouTube pages
About Scott:
Scott Whitmore is the Assistant Cultural Affairs officer at US Embassy Kyiv arrived in August 2020. He has also worked in Warsaw, Poland; Halifax, Canada; São Paulo, Brazil; Baku, Azerbaijan; and Tbilisi, Georgia as part of the Foreign Service. Prior to joining the U.S. State Department, Scott was a high school teacher in Chelsea, MA, a city close to Boston. Scott also worked in Moscow and studied in St. Petersburg, Russia. He speaks Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and Portuguese and enough Georgian to order from a menu or get in trouble. He has also lived in Salem, MA and has some great stories to tell you!