“Doesn’t make sense,” I say. “Her husband died fighting for the North during the Civil War.”
“Whose husband?” asks Chumley, clomping over in his new Herman Survivor boots. Jen steps around me and rests her head on my right shoulder, causing my knees to quiver.
“Claire Burlingame,” I mutter.
“The Salem Witch has a name?” asks Sue. “How do you know all this, Cal?”
“Cal knows everything, or didn’t he tell you?” says Jimmy, eyeing Jen and me jealously.
“She was a friend of the family way back,” I answer, ignoring Jimmy.
“But why have this here?” asks Jen defensively. “We’re not like that. This isn’t the South.”
“Tell that to the Wampanoags,” says Chumley. “What’s left of us, that is.”
“We’re not all bad,” Hailey replies. “I mean, I’m dating one, aren’t I? That should count for somethin
