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Join in on the first collaboration between Real Pirates Salem and Intramersive, to celebrate Pride as only we can – with pirates and a chance to go on account! Famous pirates and lovers, Mary Read and Anne Bonny, are looking for their own taste of independence. In striking out on their own, they are also...
Join us on Thursday, June 30th for an author signing event with Dan Gagnon. From 1:00-5:00 Gagnon will be on-site signing copies of his new book “A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse.” This biography of witch trial’s victim Rebecca Nurse vividly recreates seventeenth century Salem, and in the process challenges...
During this boat tour follow up to historian Donald Friary's virtual presentation of Reverend William Bentley's Salem Harbor, you'll explore the harbor with Reverend Bentley and learn more about the way he experienced it. According to his diary, Reverend William Bentley seemed to be everywhere. He saw Salem’s ship captains departing for and returning from...
Salem Historical Tours is doing a Salem Witch Trials Ancestors & Descendants walking tour this Saturday and Sunday at 11 am. This fascinating new tour tells you some of the stories of the 1692 witchcraft trials but also reveals famous descendants of those involved whether they are judges, jurors, accusers or accused. You will be...
Salem Historical Tours is doing a Salem Witch Trials Ancestors & Descendants walking tour this Saturday and Sunday at 11 am. This fascinating new tour tells you some of the stories of the 1692 witchcraft trials but also reveals famous descendants of those involved whether they are judges, jurors, accusers or accused. You will be...
This 1.2 mile walking tour of historic Ipswich is led by town historian Gordon Harris The National Trust for Historic Preservation defines heritage tourism as “traveling to experience the places that authentically represent the stories and people of the past and present.” The historic neighborhoods of Ipswich, Massachusetts offer well-preserved streetscapes of First Period, Georgian,...
Come out and celebrate and register to vote because they could not! Come out and celebrate the 282nd Annual Festival of Negro Election Day with live entertainment, local and community vendors, kids corner, and more! The event will take place on Saturday July 16th from 8am to 8pm at Salem Willows Park 165 Fort Ave....
Join us for the Salem Village Witch Hunt Walking Tour on Saturday, July 16 at 10 am. Salem is where people visit to learn about the 1692 witchcraft trials, but Salem Village (present-day Danvers) is where it first began, and where many of the leading figures of the Witch-Hunt lived. It is where the Devil...
Join the congregation as Reverend Parris will lead a Puritan plain style morning service and preach the sermon that he delivered on March 27, 1692, soon after the outbreak of the witchcraft episode throughout Essex County. Donald Friary, a Salem resident and historian of religion and architecture in early America, will appear in costume and...
Journey upon Essex Heritage's landing craft Naumkeag to a real steamship wreck off Little Misery Island in Salem Sound. In 1923, the steamship, City of Rockland, wrecked in the Kennebec River in Maine. The following year, the ship was brought to Little Misery Island in Salem Sound and its remains were set afire, where is still...
