‘Witch Hunt’ podcast starts with Salem trials, but then goes deeper
Nancy Mades-Byrd will be the first to admit it: she loves to talk.
As an eighth-grade schoolteacher and a part-time tour guide in Salem’s historic district, Mades-Byrd gets to regularly exercise her passion for imparting information to anyone who is willing to lend an ear.
“Three of my favorite things: History, words, and the sound of my own voice,” said Mades-Byrd, a Salem resident.
So it made perfect sense, given where she lives and her gift of gab, to join a national trend and launch her own podcast last month. This Sunday, Episode 3 of Mades-Byrd’s “Witch Hunt” podcast will air online, bringing listeners yet another chapter of her research on the historic Salem witch trials, a topic she said is still clouded by misinformation.
“What’s interesting, in particular, is it’s one of those things that everyone knows the story about — but nobody knows the story,” she said. “People have a lot of misconceptions.”
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