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Fireside Legends
by JT Smith
Fireside Legends takes the stories that got passed down around a fire — half history, half legend — and traces them back to what actually happened. Real history, real witnesses, and an honest look at how a story becomes a legend.
Episodes
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Fireside Legends, Episode 4: Unraveling the Aftermath
On January 14th, 1697, a judge stood in a Boston church while his confession was read aloud. Samuel Sewall had signed the death warrants at Salem — and now, in public, he took the blame and the shame of it on himself. How did we get from the gallows of September 1692 to that moment? This week on...
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Fireside Legends, Episode 3: The Court and the Gallows
Fireside Legends, Episode 3: The Court and the Gallows June 10, 1692. A cart rolls up a rocky hill outside Salem Town. On it sits Bridget Bishop—the first of the condemned. By the end of September, eighteen more will follow her to the gallows, and one man will be pressed to death under stones.…
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Fireside Legends, Episode 2: The Accusations Spread
Fireside Legends, Episode 2: The Accusations Spread March 1692. A crowded tavern. A magistrate who asks the accused not "Did you do this?" but "What evil spirit have you familiarity with?" In Episode 2 of our Salem Witch Trials series, we sit in on the first examinations and hear the confession...
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Fireside Legends, Episode 1: The World That Made Salem
Fireside Legends, Episode 1: The World That Made Salem Before the accusations, the trials, and the hysteria, there was a world that made them possible. In this first episode of our five-part series on the Salem Witch Trials, we step back to 1692 and ask a better question: what kind of place...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Fireside Legends takes the stories that got passed down around a fire — half history, half legend — and traces them back to what actually happened. Real history, real witnesses, and an honest look at how a story becomes a legend.
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JT Smith
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Fireside Legends takes the stories that got passed down around a fire — half history, half legend — and traces them back to what actually happened. Real history, real witnesses, and an honest look at how a story becomes a legend.
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Fireside Legends is created and hosted by JT Smith.
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