We just went yesterday and the dungeon was very immersive! There was the smell of mildew (which is normal underground) but I can't imagine what the smell would have been in the 1690's. It was somber and heartbreaking to see their small cells of imprisonment. A very good tour! The theater piece after the narrative intro was passionate and made us feel like we were on the peer jury. I felt like she pointed right at me! It was a strong prospective that we, in modern day, would have easily found the accused to be innocent. But my issues are with the beginning narrative. We fully understood that men were the sole power in those days in a puritan society but I felt (as a woman) that our specific narrator heavily impressed "it was the men! It's men's fault!" She expressed it in a way that didn't clear the air that things are not that way anymore. She went on and on about how men are the worst. Also that women were not seen as people which is not true of that time, after further investigation. We lacked a lot of rights but families did love and care about their daughters and we had more rights than slaves. Mothers spent at least 16-20 years teaching girls how to cook, clean, read and write, some first aid and child birth, animal care,and even some home repairs. She said we were not allowed to speak or be spoken to? But at the time in New England we had the right to a fair trial, to bear witness, to represent ourselves, and appeal in court. She also made a comment (that made both my boyfriend and I look at eachother funny) that there was "No science in America or the rest of the world at the time" which is such a blatant lie. We literally had books of awe inspiring research for all science categories and foundations at the time. But she pressed on the idea 12 year old girls were sold off to marriage and pregnancy. It was already a known fact woman were better at pregnancy by early twenties. Which is why the average age of marriage for women in the 1600 and 1700's was late teens and early twenties. It was not common to marry off your daughters at 12. That was just the age of consent but even they found that weird at the time. Our narrator followed the script that it was normal and abundant that girls were married off and made pregnant at 12. Which is not true. It just elududed to men being evil. Betty Parrish was 10 years old at the time of her trial and there is absolutely no historical documents backing up the narrative that she suffered from shock from an arranged marriage at the age of 12. -I have issue with her claim that science did not exist in the world at the time. -That men supremely dominated and women were only property and not seen as humans

• Premature married at 12 years old was common and normal
• That the hysteria was the work of men in power and all the girls were just victims because no one knew any better.

The real evil here was outdated puritan religion and I think that should be cast as the real evil and not the men and women who fell for it. It's a firm lesson that religion without question leads to feud and death. Please rewrite your intro on that rather than males always being the devil.