john winthrop arrives in 1630, first coming into salem. because salem is older then boston. salem is the first settlement of the colony. starts. where it all sometime in that process of sailing over, or arrival shortly afterwards, winter gives us this gives thisinthrop famous sermon, with in it has the words "we shall be as a city upon a hill and the eys of the world are upon us." ways, salem is that city on a hill. metaphorically, physically, this is it. this is the start of the puritan experiment in massachusetts bay. it is supposed to be a place where people walk hand in hand with each other and live in peace and harmony. i think that is maybe part of the answer as to why we remember the salem witch trials and why we will never forget that. fall of this tremendous from grace, this idea of 1630, , while people were still alive, who heard winthrop give that sermon -- daughters accusing mothers, neighbors accusing neighbors, of being witches. witch the surgeon experiment is being torn apart. i think that is a trauma we never recovered from. it is a turning point in american