Thursday, October 1, 2026 · 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Children's Programming Room — 14 Union St., Hamilton, MA
Do you like to read biographies and memoirs? Come and join the Biography Book Club at the Hamilton-Wenham Public Library where we'll meet on the first Thursday of the month from September - May at 3pm. For October we will be reading and discussing A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse by Local Author Daniel A. Gagnon. Copies are available at the Library or through Libby (please note that there are no audio books or large print books available for this title). If you have any questions email amiller@hwlibrary.org. Summary: "In A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse, the first full account of Nurse’s life, Daniel A. Gagnon vividly recreates seventeenth-century Salem, and in the process challenges previous interpretations of Nurse’s life and the 1692 witch hunt in general. Through primary source research, he reveals how the Nurse family’s role in several disputes prior to the witch hunt was different than previously thought, as well as how Nurse’s case helps answer the important question of whether the accusations of witchcraft were caused by mental illness or malicious intent. A Salem Witch reveals a remarkable woman…