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In J. W. Ocker\u2019s book A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts,<\/a><\/em> Jay Finney, chief marketing officer of the big Peabody Essex Museum<\/a>, tells Ocker that \u201ccultural tourists\u201d who visit the museum are a different crowd than those who come to Salem for witchy stuff.<\/p>\n And he sees no point in marketing to the latter.<\/p>\n But he just did, because M and I are in both categories.<\/p>\n Here you see two refrigerator magnets from the Salem Witch Museum<\/a>, my Black Phillip pin (really from Nerd Scouts<\/a> but very Salem-ish), a receipt for two museum admissions, and, good measure, a National Park Service brochure about the maritime history of Salem<\/a>. (Not shown: Salem Witch Museum t-shirt.) So you see, Mr. Finney, we can be \u201ccultural tourists\u201d and part of \u201cthat [t-shirt buying] demographic\u201d At The Same Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n I need to write a blog post about the maritime stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In J. W. Ocker\u2019s book A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, Jay Finney, chief marketing officer of the big Peabody Essex Museum, tells Ocker that \u201ccultural tourists\u201d who visit the museum are a different crowd than those who come to Salem for witchy stuff. And he sees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,100,325,158,29],"class_list":["post-9456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-history","tag-salem","tag-tourism","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2sw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11842,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11842","url_meta":{"origin":9456,"position":0},"title":"Salem Museum Gives In, Exhibits 1692 Witch-Trial Materials","author":"Chas S. 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