Misogyny at the Times of the Salem Witch Trials: Lessons Learned and Forgotten

MMarilynne Roacharilynne K. Roach works as a free-lance writer, illustrator, researcher, and presenter of talks on historical subjects. She has written for publications as varied as the Boston Globe, the New England Historic Genealogical Register, and the Lizzie Borden Quarterly. She is a member of the Gallows Hill Project that verified the correct site of the 1692 hangings, a discovery listed in Archaeology Magazine’s list of the world’s ten most important discoveries of 2017.

Michael earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Northeastern University, majoring in
Political Science and minoring in History. He went on to earn a Juris Doctor degree from
Rutgers University and is presently enrolled in graduate coursework in creative writing at
Harvard University.

A copywriter, ghostwriter and editor by trade, Cormier has written
everything from campaign speeches to full-length biographies. He has also published
short stories and three novels, Sumner Island (2010), Convention (2013), and The Lord of
Malice (2021) and co-written two other books. His play The Abolitionist Refrain, about poet
John Greenleaf Whittier’s role as an abolitionist, debuted at The Whittier Birthplace in
Haverhill in September 2022.

Myriam Cyr is a mother, a television and radioannouncer, as well as a programming director.