The town really wants to emphasize their role in maritime Commerce. It is a pretty great story. They have a replica merchant ship, the Friendship. I have no doubt I’d get sick on the high seas in that little thing. It sailed around the world 15 times in its career. No Dramamine back then either!
Of course, there are plenty of haunted houses, tarot card readers, and psychics in this town. Can’t blame them for trying to capitalize on the whole witch trial rep. We skipped that stuff but did check out the Witch Memorial, a series of 19 granite stones jutting from a pathway wall engraved with the names of the ones who were hanged for their witchcraft. We walked the cemetery a bit too. Seems Kent has a long lost relative who has been traced to Salem during the time of the trials. Samuel Sayre sat on jury for one of the trials. No Sayre stones that we could find but many are too eroded to read.