Events

Join The Gables and explore Salem’s industrial heritage along a changing shoreline with Barbara Warren, Executive Director of Salem Sound Coastwatch, and Vijay Joyce, Founder of Rekindled History.

Join the Gables as we host Bill Golden aboard The Schooner Fame as we tour the harbor and discuss the existential threat to coastal communities of storm surge, sea level rise and storm water caused by melting glaciers and the increased destructive capability of storms.

Join The Gables and explore Salem’s heritage along a changing shoreline with Barbara Warren, Executive Director of Salem Sound Coastwatch, and David Moffat, Visitor Services Specialist and Lead Researcher at The Gables.

This year’s Community Conversations series will focus on the history of the Settlement movement, the cultures of the groups with whom we work, and what Settlement and Salem looks like today.

This outdoor walking tour will give a nod towards our Polish, French Canadian, Italian and modern Dominican immigration waves. You’ll be sampling delicious classic and contemporary items, some sweet and some savory items, reflective of these heritages while enjoying Salem.

Join us at The House of the Seven Gables for Foreign Soil: Common Ground, an exuberant chamber music performance that features compositions by seven composers who hail from six countries with populations that have historically emigrated to the United States, and who themselves left their native homelands to build cultural bridges and lasting artistic legacies through their contributions to the oeuvre of classical music.

Join The Gables as we welcome Nonie Gadsden, the Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, as she talks about The Saturday Evening Girls’ Club.