Georgia Room

Front of Switzer Library, a brick building with a white columned entranceway

Cobb County Public Library September 21, 2022

The Georgia Room at the Switzer Library presents a program on how the Salem witch trials played out in one Massachusetts town

Witches are often a fun, playful theme of Halloween, but they are also the subject of a tragic part of American history: the witch trials that took place in colonial…

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