Salem, Mass., has a new marketing logo and slogan. Read the boston.com article here, and get the Globe if you want more.
December 30th, 2010
Mass. Poetry Festival in Salem, May 13-14
Speaking of the power of cities, after two highly successful productions in Lowell (2008-09), the Massachusetts Poetry Festival will move its tents, workshops, coffeehouse readings, and auditorium events to downtown Salem in 2011, with a packed schedule of activities set for May 13 and 14. Keep checking www.masspoetry.org for updates as the MPF takes shape. Good luck to Michael Ansara, Jacquie Malone, and the rest of the planning committee. We’ll provide updates here at rh.com also.
August 22nd, 2010
Salem’s Chinese House
My family took a stay-cation day trip to Salem last Thursday, visiting the Peabody Essex Museum, our favorite place in a city that we go to once or twice a year. I’d never seen the Yin Yu Tang house, but my wife had been inside several times. This 200-year-old house from southeastern China was dismantled and shipped east to the Museum where it was rebuilt exactly as it stood in the village of Huang Cun, near Shanghai. Eight generations of the Huang family lived in the house. The house came to Salem through a cultural partnership formed between regional officials in China and the Peabody Essex, which is a world-class museum less than an hour from Lowell. Here’s the link for more information about the house.
The whole Museum experience there is an exercise in obtaining perspective on our daily experience. You have to work your mind around the notion that the Massachusetts coast was a gateway to the Pacific and Asia. The Museum was established in 1799 by wealthy merchants from Salem’s maritime trade. The PEM is “the country’s oldest continuously operating museum.” Lucky for downtown Salem to have such a draw. Still, I wouldn’t trade downtown Lowell for Salem’s even though the ocean is right there.
The PEM, Salem National Park sites, and Witch Trials Memorial are well worth the drive to the North Shore. While you are there, make time for breakfast or lunch at Brothers Restaurant & Deli at 283 Derby St.
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