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Best Fall Festivals :: Festival of the Dead in Salem

Nothing says fall like ridiculous harvest festivals in small-town America. This week, we'll be mapping the best.

This one may be a bit spooky to be called a harvest festival, but it's too wild to pass up. Salem, Massachusetts is of course famous for its 17th-century witch trials, lampooned in more modern times by everyone from Arthur Miller to The Simpsons. But in one of history's greatest transformations of lemons to lemonade, Salem is now a town for witches, and its Festival of the Dead is the best time to practice the dark arts in New England

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