JULIA PARK TRACEY IN THE WITCH PARADE! 3rd ANNUAL NEW ENGLAND WITCHES GUILD PARADE & FESTIVAL
In coordination with the New England Witches Guild, Julia Park Tracey rides in the 3rd Annual New England Witches Guild Parade in Puritan garb!
Once the parade reaches Crescent Park, the fun continues with a Halloween-themed festival featuring live music, food trucks, vendors and fun at the historic Crescent Park Looff Carousel. Sibylline Press will have a booth, where Julia will talk to fans of historical fiction and sign books.
The New England Witches Guild Parade will be held on October 19th, 2024 from 11am-4pm and is FREE to the public!
EVENT ADDRESS (festival post-parade):
Crescent Park Carousel
700 Bullocks Point Ave
Riverside, RI 02915
Tracey will be livestreaming the parade via Tiktok at 11am on her Instagram account, @juliaparktracey.
You can purchase your copy of Silence here.
This is event is part of the Retracing the Witch Trials Tour with Julia Park Tracey, Author of Silence: A Novel. The tour spans October 19 through 30, 2024 and takes place in New England. Readers are invited to enjoy the tour from afar through the TikTok Live events coordinated as part of this tour or if you live in New England, we invite you to attend the events. Learn more about the whole tour here.
About Silence:
After three grievous losses, Puritan woman Silence Marsh dares to question God aloud in the church, and that blasphemy lands her in trouble—she is silenced for a year by the powers that govern.
Broken in heart and spirit, Silence learns to mime and sign, but it isn’t until a new Boston doctor comes to her backward Cape Cod village that she begins to hope again. Rather than treating Silence with bleeding or leeches, Dr. Greenleaf prescribes fresh air, St. John’s Wort, long walks—and reading.
Silence has half a hope of getting through her year of punishment when the cry of witchcraft poisons the village. Colonial Massachusetts is still reeling from the Salem Witch Trials just 20 years before. Now, after they demanded her silence, she is called to witness at a witchcraft trial—or be accused herself.
A whiff of sulfur and witchcraft shadows this literary Puritan tale of loss and redemption, based on this bestselling historical fiction author’s own ancestor, her seventh great-grandmother.
About Julia Park Tracey:
Bestselling author Julia Park Tracey’s ancestors and their stories have given her a trail to follow from New York and New England to the Deep South and the Pacific Coast (thanks to Ancestry.com). The Bereaved; A Novel, the story of her great, great grandmother’s loss of her children to the Orphan Train was named in the top 100 indie books published in 2023 by Kirkus Reviews. Silence is the story of another “an-sister,” Silence Greenleaf.
