Dangling witches

Confirming that the Boston Globe has fired all copy editors is a sentence in a Jan. 28, 2017, story about a memorial to “witches” that is planned for Salem, Massachusetts, where 19 people accused of witchcraft were executed in 1692. Here’s the sentence: “Historians confirmed the area was the likely site of the witch hangings in January last year, after years of dedicated research aided by a professor from Salem State University.”

I don’t know how much “dedicated research” was required, since the hangings were last January. Guess the Globe missed the story. The Salem News probably covered it.