Was there one Hallween. Was great entertainment. Would go back again.
BTW: “...thousands of tourists who come to Salem every October, spending money, snarling traffic, and sometimes getting arrested for drunken or violent behavior.”
You wrote it so it sound like thousands of the tourists were drunk getting arrested, etc. Not true.
Have you thought of a job as a headline writer for the New York Times?
If you put yourself in that era...with no TV, radio or news...then a witch trial is about the only entertainment you might get for the whole year.