Making Headlines

The Charter Street Cemetery was on the front page of the Salem News today, along with my friend Giovanni, owner of Haunted Footsteps.  

https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/no-issues-in-closed-cemetery-except-for-some-tour-groups/article_9da13223-8df8-533d-b132-91be306d9e20.html

It's a bad headline, but that is the fault of the headline-writer, not the reporter filing the story.  Reading the headline alone, you might think that the only "issues" in the (illegally) closed cemetery were being caused by tour groups, which is certainly not the case. 


The article states that "The move was made to protect the cemetery from damage caused by tourists unaware of the centuries-old gravestones’ fragility."  And that's incorrect.  I attended the meetings where closing the cemetery was discussed and, as noted in another post, historic preservation and protecting the cemetery never came up, and was clearly not ever the point (see the post entitled "Those People.").