The Trials of Maggie Pollock will make you a believer

August 8, 2024 @ 7:00 amArts & Entertainment, Listowel Banner, Opinion, Walkerton Herald-Times, Walkerton-Wingham-Listowel, Wingham Advance Times

Pictured are actors Susan Stakchouse, Caroline Gillis, JD Nicholsen, and Amy Keating in a scene from the Trials of Maggie Pollock. (Gil Garratt photo)

HURON COUNTY – Blyth Festival Theatre’s latest stage performance, The Trials of Maggie Pollock, is based on an unusual trial that took place at the Goderich courthouse in 1920, one where the accused was convicted of witchcraft. Maggie Pollock lived on the Eighth Line of Morris Township, two miles from Blyth. She was the first-born…

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Kelsey Bent is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with Midwestern Newspapers.