Book on witch trials topic of talk planned at Derby Library

DERBY - The Derby Public Library will host an author visit at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 21.  

Cindy Wolfe Boynton will discuss her book, Connecticut Witch Trials: The First Panic in the New World.

It is a little known fact that Connecticut’s witch hunt ever existed, let alone that it was the first and most ferocious in New England.  

Connecticut holds the dark honor of carrying out young America’s first witchcraft execution in 1647, 45 years before Salem’s first executions.  

Connecticut also holds the dubious distinction of having a 

witch panic that spanned several decades versus Salem’s seven months and ultimately a witch hunt that was proportionally much more deadly.

Boynton will discuss the towns, the people whose names became famous and forgotten during this frightening

period, and the process of writing her book.  

Registration is requested.

For more information, stop by the Library, 313 Elizabeth St., call 203-736-1482, or 

visit www.derbypubliclibrary.org.      



This is a press release from Cathy Williams, Director, Derby Public Library.