I had no idea there was a Noyes connection! Thank you for sharing the poem; I like the demons you brought to your marriage.

I also have never seen anyone write or depict the aftermath before, which is kind of wild, when you think about it -- I feel like accounts tend to close with "they stopped hanging witches and the craze ended," but nothing ends when you're all still living in the same small village. And some people did leave, and some people spent the next twenty years embroiled in lawsuits, and some people stayed and made awkward public apologies from the pulpit ten years later -- I had forgotten that The Crucible ends, ahistorically, with two of the accusing girls running away to England, I suppose just because Miller couldn't get his mind around this very problem.