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Wednsday Febuary 3 1999
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McLamore
to discuss
witch trials
by Susan May
The Salem witch trials and
their effect on the nation's
future will be discussed by
Dr. Richard McLamore in a
College of Arts and Sciences
Colloquium at 9:30 a.m.
Thursday Feb. 11 in the
President's Dining Room of
the UM Campus Center.
The English professor's
talk is entitled "Celebrating
the Past to Shape the Future:
Early American History and
the First Novel about the
Salem Witch Trials." The
paper describes some ways
that early American writers
struggled to represent a past
so as best to shape a future.
The Salem Village crisis
was "that one puritan event
which democratic myth (in
the early period). ..historians
would not touch with a ten-
foot totem" McLamore
says.
Nevertheless John Neal
based his best novel on just
this event and made some
significant changes to the
known and assumed histori-
cal facts.
Dr. McLamore states that
he will offer some explana-
tions for Neal's most un-
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historical record in "Rachel
Dyer" the first published
novel about the Salem
witch proceedings.
In the 1828 novel Neal
makes the Rev. George
Burroughs (executed in
August 1692 as the wizard
and ringleader of all other
witches) a half-breed with
a very complicated past.
Neal also makes Burr-
oughs the hero of the novel
and an example before his
time of the American spirit
that would make the revo-
lution possible.
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choose the Puritans as the
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the answer to these and other
intriguing questions in the
colloquium.
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MSG views
handicapped
access here
by David Shaver
Making buildings on the
university campus more
handicapped accessible has
been discussed by McMurry
Student Government in re-
cent meetings according to
Jori Coll MSG secretary.
This ongoing project has
been part of the capital cam-
paign begun in 1984 and
ending last December. MSG
joined administrators stu-
dents professors alumni
and trustees in spearheading
the campaign.
MSG which meets at 5:30
p.m. Mondays has also
moved to get the Indian foot-
ball stadium sign sign re-
painted. The sign has
needed reworking for some
time now Coll said and
MSG has become involved.
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