Shrewsbury – The Shrewsbury Historical Society hosts Christopher Daley Wednesday Oct. 26, at 7 p.m., as he speaks about The Haunted History of New England at the 1830 Brick Schoolhouse on the Town Common.
The Haunted History of New England is a one-hour slide presentation that also incorporates video footage. The presentation melds historical fact together with legend and myth to produce an interesting and fascinating new look at events that really happened and the stories of haunting that followed them.
The topics covered in the lecture include Mercy Brown “The Vampire” of Exeter Rhode Island, the Cursed Freetown State Forest, the Haunted Hoosac Tunnel in western Massachusetts, the Ghosts of the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, the Lady in Black at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire, Giles Corey and the Curse of Salem, Dudleytown: The Cursed Ghost-town of Cornwall, Connecticut, Burial Hill in Plymouth Massachusetts, and the John Alden House in Duxbury Massachusetts.
Daley is a history teacher, past chairman of the Pembroke Historical Commission and President of the Pembroke Historical Society. He is the author of several articles about local history and has been lecturing on historical topics throughout New England for the past twenty years.
The Haunted History of New England is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served during the event. To find out more about the Shrewsbury Historical Society, visit their web site at www.shrewsburyhistoricalsociety.org.
