Infinite Road
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Narrated by The Storyteller 27 km · about 36 min · 8 stories

Witch city to the oldest seaport: the trials of 1692 and the house of the judge who never repented, Hammond Castle's eccentric inventor, and the Gloucester fishermen's memorial — a town that sent ten thousand men to the banks and counted the ones who came back.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Salem, Massachusetts

    The Salem Athenaeum Membership Library

  2. 2
    Beverly, Massachusetts

    The Salem Witch House

  3. 3
    Beverly, Massachusetts

    The Salem Witch Trials Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  4. 4
    Wenham, Massachusetts

    The Salem Witch Trials Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  5. 5
    Manchester, Massachusetts

    The Salem Witch Trials Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  6. 6
    Gloucester, Massachusetts

    The Eccentric Inventor's Castle

  7. 7
    Gloucester, Massachusetts

    The Gloucester Fishermen's Wives

  8. 8
    Gloucester, Massachusetts

    The Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.