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Director’s Message, by Kara McLaughlin, Executive Director

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Director’s Message, by Kara McLaughlin, Executive Director

Date: September 17, 2015

One thing I love about our quarterly newsletters is they allow time to pause for a moment and look back on what the organization has accomplished over the past few...

Caribbean Connections 2015, by Ana Nuncio, Manager of Settlement Partnerships

Date: September 17, 2015

As the school year ended last June, Gables staff was busy preparing for the third phase of Caribbean Connections, a program that aims to help Salem students and their families...

Community Day at The Gables, by Ana Nuncio, Manager of Settlement Partnerships

Date: September 17, 2015

On Thursday, August 6th, The Gables hosted a city-wide Community Day that showcased the talents of high school students. The event was led and organized by staff from LEAP for...

Brick by Brick

Date: September 17, 2015

We are pleased to announce the completion of the trolley stop memorial brick walkway. Over the past several months, our dedicated Development team has reached out to members of The...

Scarlet Letter Needlepoint, by Everett Philbrook, Store Manager

Date: September 17, 2015

Compiled from, “The Custom House” – introduction to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850): “…one idle and rainy day, it was my fortune to make a discovery of some...

Salem’s Oldest House Celebrates Its 360th Year, By David Moffat, Lead/Senior Tour Guide

Date: September 17, 2015

The Retire Beckett House, moved to the site of The House of the Seven Gables in 1924, is once again in the spotlight. This year marks the 360th anniversary of...

Experimenting With History by Dan Marshall, Manager of Visitor Services

Date: September 17, 2015

American poet Mark Van Doren once said, “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”   As an English professor at Columbia University for 39 years, he had extensive...

Book Review: "Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League" by Rae Padilla Francoeur

Date: September 15, 2015

Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League By Dan-el Padilla Peralta. Penguin Press, New York, 2015. 312 pages. $27.95. Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s journey from...

A Night Out at The Gables by Rae Francoeur

Date: June 29, 2015

One of the highlights of Salem’s many cultural offerings is The House of the Seven Gables’ ‘Seven Lectures for Seven Gables’ annual series. For many Salem and North Shore residents,...

Recognizing Immigrants as Assets

Date: June 16, 2015

by Rae Francoeur “Immigrants are and always have been assets to our communities and our economy,” says Denzil Mohammed, the fourth speaker in a series of Immigration Conversations now underway...