The Salem Arts Festival is going to light up Old Town Hall with a locally-sourced fashion show on Friday night. Featuring fabulous fashion from local boutiques including Avalanche Company Store, The Boutique, Lifebridge’s Second Chance Thrift Shop, Modern Millie Vintage & Consignments, Ocean Chic Boutique & Waterbar, RJ Coins and Jewelry, Peabody Essex Museum Shop, and TBT Post, the catwalk will be magically Salem, through-and-through. Even the make-up is local, being done by the artists at Laura Lanes Skin Care, Rouge Cosmetics, and Radiance Lifestyle Salon. Buy your tickets online before they sell out!
This is a fabulously fashionable way to support the Salem Arts Festival, which will spin into Salem for the first weekend of June.
The Fashion Show is not the only thing happening on Friday night in Salem. Just down Derby Street near a dark house with many gables, there will be a celebration of one remarkable woman by the name of Caroline Emmerton. A special exhibition, Caroine Emmerton: An Unbound Vision, opens at 6pm with a reception.
One of our favorite members of the (unofficial) “Strong Women of Salem” club, this native of Salem would become one of the city’s most productive and entrepreneurial philanthropists. Among her most important accomplishments was the rescue, restoration and repurposing of the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, which we now know as The House of the Seven Gables.
What was once the residence of a prominent sea captain and later the home of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s cousin Susanna Ingersoll would become The House of the Seven Gables. In a smart and creative promotional move, Emmerton gave the house — Hawthorne’s inspiration for his novel, The House of the Seven Gables — a new name and a worthy purpose. Proceeds from tours of The Gables would support her Settlement House programs to help the city’s immigrant population settle and gain U.S. citizenship. The Settlement work begun in 1908 continues today, thanks to Emmerton’s prescience and persistence.
2016 marks Caroline Emmerton’s 150th Birthday and the celebration begins on April 8 when the exhibit, An Unbound Vision, opens. For a complete schedule of celebratory events, visit 7gables.org.
The reception at the Gables begins at 6:00 PM on Friday night, and the Fashion Show at Old Town Hall is at 7:00 PM, which makes it just right to take in both events and support both worthy endeavors. Hope to see you there!
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