Welcome to Woo Woo With Rachel Dratch, the podcast that explores The Unexplained with Humor and Curiosity.

Hello, and welcome to Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch here with Irene Bremis on location in Salem, Massachusetts.

Hi, Irene.

Hello, sweetie.

So exciting.

We're back in our home state, but not our hometown because we are in Salem, Mass.

And we are so happy to be graced with the presence

of Rachel Christ Done who is the director of education at the Salem Witch Museum. Hey Rachel.

Hi, Rachel. Thanks for having me. Hey, Rachel. Thanks for joining us. So Irene and I I just did a quick little walkthrough of the museum, and there's so many topics

that we quickly covered that I was like, save it for when we sit down.

So now we're seated and we're going to hear everything there is to, well, not everything.

We're going to, as we've learned, there's so much.

We're going to learn a fraction of all the fascinating information there is to, well, not everything. We're going to, as we've learned, there's so much. We're going to learn a fraction of all the fascinating information there is to know.

So, Rach.

From one Rachel to another.

And you're from a nearby Massachusetts town as well.

Yeah.

So how did, just a little way of background, like, how did you get involved in this museum?

Were you always into history, or did you gravitate toward the witch thing?

Or like, which, which came first?

So I actually, like many people in Salem came here completely by accident.

I was just an undergraduate student who was a history major and I was interested in women's history.

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