Why a Booktrail?
1687: A children’s novel inspired by many locations and places in real life and it is so fascinating about seeing and sensing the places you may have read about as a child.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
What you need to know before your trail
Orphaned Kit Tyler gazes at Connecticut Colony – her relatives’ stern Puritan community. the only place where Kit feels completely free is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, and on occasion, her young sailor friend Nat. But when Kit’s friendship with the “witch” is discovered, Kit is faced with suspicion, fear, and anger. She herself is accused of witchcraft!
Travel Guide
Many places in the novel are actual locations in Old Wethersfield Connecticut. They include:
Blackbird Pond (later renamed Wethersfield Cove)
Great Meadows
The church on Main Street
Buttolph Williams house
This house is considered to be the house Kit lived in. It’s an historic site and is included in a “”Witchcraft and Tombstones” Tour” offered by the Webb Dean Stevens museum
Visit: webb-deane-stevens.org
“Her heart sank. This was Wethersfield! Just a narrow sandy stretch of shoreline, a few piles sunk in the river with rough planking for a platform.”
Streetview Maps
B) Wethersfield Cove
D) Buttolph Williams’ house
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Author/Guide: Elizabeth George Speare Destination: Connecticut, Old Wethersfield Departure Time: 1687
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