Witch trials, Walden Pond, and the Hyannisport compound
Three Massachusetts geographies in one chain. KBVY Beverly Regional puts you 3nm from the Salem Witch Trials Memorial — 20 granite benches dedicated August 5, 1992 by Elie Wiesel on the 300th anniversary of the 1692 hysteria, one for each of the 20 people executed. Salem's Peabody Essex Museum nearby holds the largest Asian art collection in any U.S. museum, built on the city's 18th-century China-trade wealth. West to KBED Hanscom Field in Bedford, four nautical miles from Walden Pond — the 61-acre kettle pond in Concord where Henry David Thoreau built his 10x15 cabin July 4, 1845 and wrote the manuscript that became "Walden" (1854), the founding text of American environmentalism. The North Bridge in Concord, where the American Revolution started April 19, 1775, is 1.5 miles north. South across Cape Cod Bay to KHYA Barnstable Municipal: the Kennedy Compound at Hyannis Port is two miles south of the runway — six waterfront acres on Lewis Bay where Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. bought the first house in 1928, JFK accepted the 1960 Democratic nomination, and three generations of the family have summered. The JFK Hyannis Museum is in downtown Hyannis 1.5mi from the compound.