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Plymouth
5 WITCH TRIALS
MAP G3 • Pilgrim Hall
Museum: 75 Court St, Plymouth; Salem exhibits mixed feelings about its
508 746 1620; open mid-Feb–Dec: witch history. On the 300th anniversary
9:30am–4:30pm daily; adm; of the 1692 hysteria that led to the
www.pilgrimhall.org hanging of 19 “witches” and crushing
Plymouth calls itself “America’s of another, the city erected a solemn
home town,” as it was the first memorial to the victims. But come
Halloween, Salem is “witch city,”
English settlement in New England capitalizing on its sensational past
and home of the Separatists, who to draw curious visitors.
became known as Pilgrims. The
living history museum of Plimoth
Lowell
Plantation (see p38) depicts the 7
settlement around 1627, and MAP F2
also has exhibits devoted Lowell was the first
to Wampanoag life in the purpose­built city
same era. History is in the US, con­
marked with a statue or structed in the 1820s
plaque on almost every as a large factory town
corner of pleasant modern to manufacture textiles with
Plymouth. Pilgrim Hall equipment designs adapted
Museum displays artifacts from British mills. The textile
of the original Pilgrims, industry is gone, but the canal
and addresses their story. network and looming mills
remain as testament to the
Cape Cod
6 country’s first tryst with the
Industrial Revolution (see
English explorer
Bartholomew Gosnold Artifact at Pilgrim p39). After you’ve soaked
Hall Museum,
literally put Cape Cod on Plymouth up the mill history, visit
the map in 1602 when he Jack Kerouac Park (part
named the long curl of land for the of Lowell National Historical Park)
fish so abun dant in its waters. Cape to pay your respects to the Beat
Cod’s soils are but 15,000 years old – author who was a native son.
composed of the sand and gravel
Nantucket
that mark the southernmost advance 8
of the last glacier – and it is hardly MAP H5
terra firma; every large storm subtly In contrast with Martha’s Vineyard,
reshapes the shore, making penin­ only residents bother to bring a car
sulas into islands and vice versa. Yet to tiny Nantucket, as the island lies
the very transience of Cape Cod is 30 miles (48 km) offshore and
part of its allure (see pp16–17). transportation is expensive. Even
resi dents tend to bicycle everywhere
Cape Cod, jutting out into the Atlantic (tourists on scooters are scorned).

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