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Hawthorne's Virtual Salem

"t may be . . . that the greatgrandchildren of the present race may sometimes think kindly of the scribbler of bygone days," writes Nathaniel Hawthorne at the end of "The Custom House Sketch." Two hundred years W after Hawthorne's birth, audiences now have a twentyfirst century tool to explore the world of the "scribbler" from New England.

The Hawthorne in Salem website has been developed to help teach high school and college students about Hawthorne. Project director Terri Whitney says an important benefit of the site is that it can "provide a window into the literature for students who sometimes find the nineteenth century prose daunting."

"What comes across is how utterly normal ...

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