Verdant Historical Society
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| Verdant Historical Society | |
|---|---|
| Type | Historical and civic organization |
| Founded | Unknown |
| Leader | Unknown (current) |
| Headquarters | Verdant, Connecticut |
| Affiliation | Verdant civic institutions |
| Members | |
| First appearance | Referenced throughout SSU |
About
The Verdant Historical Society is a civic organization in Verdant, Connecticut responsible for preserving and promoting the town's official public history. In practice this has meant curating a version of Verdant's past that emphasizes its progressive, safe harbor identity while suppressing elements that might create friction or controversy.
The Society's most significant act in the SSU is its response to Eloise Delacroix's mid-1970s document discovery. Presented with evidence that one of the Verdant Scholars founders was a woman of dark skin named Sarah Osgood, and that she may have been Tituba of the Salem Witch Trials, the Society commissioned The First Witch Statue celebrating Sarah Osgood as a progressive founding figure and suppressed the Tituba connection entirely. The Chamber of Commerce later officially downplayed the connection further, stating the documents were likely forged, in response to friction with Salem, Massachusetts following the 1992 journalism article that brought the Tituba theory into public circulation.
Connection to the SSU
The Verdant Historical Society represents the institutional face of Verdant's public history, which is consistently at odds with the true history preserved by House Subconium. Its decisions about what to promote and what to suppress have had lasting consequences, including the partial surfacing of the Tituba connection in 1992 that the Society had worked to bury.
Canon notes
- Current leadership not established
- Founding date not established
- Full organizational structure not established
- Whether the Society has any awareness of Verdant's true occult history has not been established