The Seymour Public Library again welcomes Walter Woodward Connecticut's Historian Emeritus. Mr. Woodward's talk tonight will deal with one of Connecticut's little remembered yet to modern sensibilities most shameful.

Roughly thirty years before the Salem trials it was Connecticut that was New England's fiercest witch prosecutor. The first person hanged for witchcraft in New England came from Windsor, and every single person indicted for witchcraft in early Connecticut was convicted and hanged. With roots stemming from Protestant Reformation, witch hunting in Connecticut was finally ended by 1663 by Connecticut's Governor John Winthrop Jr. and his friend the Rev. Gershom Burkeley. Only after eleven people had been executed that is.

For more information about this free program call the Library at 203-888-3903. Registration is not necessary for this program.