OWENSBORO, Ky. (WEHT) — Students at Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) have pulled together an art exhibit worthy of the Halloween season. The exhibit tells the story of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.
In the year 1692, 25 people were killed in Salem, Mass. after being accused of some form of witchcraft. OCTC history professor Matt Alschbach says any time the subject came up his students were locked in. So, he made a decision over the summer that it would be the center of a lesson in creating museum quality displays.
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Students were given a month to sift through a database for firsthand accounts, including court documents and police reports from the period. Art and essays are on display at the college’s library, in the Learning Resource Center, through Nov. 1.
“It’s been incredible. I’ve had emails from people who say that they are the descendants of people that were in the witch trials, and they want to come out and see the exhibit,” says Professor Alschbach,.