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Bell, Watson, and the First Long Distance Phone Call

3-3-21

Alexander Graham Bell placed the first long distance phone call from The Lyceum Hall, what today is Turner’s Seafood. On February 12, 1877, nearly a year after placing the call to Watson in the next room, Alexander Graham Bell “demonstrated his telephone apparatus to the public for the first time.” There was a crowd of more than 500 paying customers in...

Native History & Indigenous Acknowledgment of Salem, Massachusetts

2-4-21

Before Roger Conant and his group of Europeans arrived on the land that is now Salem, the area was home to the Naumkeag band of the Massachusett tribe, a nomadic indigenous population. Since members of the tribe moved throughout the region depending on the season, their villages sometimes looked abandoned with empty structures along the Massachusetts coast. The Naumkeag’s seasonal shifts...

The Journey from 1692 to Salem’s Modern Witch Community

1-25-21

Salem’s connection to the Witch begins with the tragic events that unfolded during the Witch Trials of 1692 when 20 innocent men and women were accused of practicing witchcraft and executed. In the 1950s, Arthur Miller used this event in the Crucible, which served as an allegory for social “witch hunts.”  Episodes of Bewitched were filmed in Salem following a...

Take a Self-Guided Audio Tour and Learn about Salem’s Black Heritage

6-18-20

  A self-guided audio tour focusing on Salem’s African American history is available for download on your mobile device. Sponsored by Voices Against Injustice, the tour makes up one achievement of Salem’s taskforce for confronting racism, who support initiatives towards making the narratives of remarkable African Americans from Salem’s history more accessible to both visitors and locals. The tour features...