The House of the Seven Gables: An Illustrated Classic
December 1, 2019 2:00 pm Leave your thoughtsJack Butterworth, the owner of one of the largest collections of comic art in New England, will share some insider... View Article
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Pop Culture-Inspired Meetup and Writing Event
November 10, 2019 10:00 am Leave your thoughtsIt’s November–and that means it’s NaNoWriMo! National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing. On... View Article
Secure the Shadow: Victorian Spirit and Post-Mortem Photography
October 2, 2019 6:30 pmEarly photography had a magical quality, even for those who understood the science behind it. For many in the nineteenth... View Article
Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere
September 12, 2019 6:30 pmToday Wonder Woman is a globally recognized character and brand. Her character was developed in the Golden Age of Comic... View Article
The Emerald Diamond: The Influence and Role of the Irish on Baseball’s Development
August 13, 2019 6:30 pmFrom the Irish immigrants of the nineteenth century to the women of the World War II era to the array... View Article
The Great American Road Trip
June 12, 2019 6:30 pmThe Great American Road Trip is a product of the growth of the interstate highway system. These roads connected people... View Article
How I Became an Emoji Activist (And You Can, Too!)
May 28, 2019 6:30 pm92% of all people online use emoji. Nearly 50% of Instagram posts contain emoji. The “face with tears of joy”... View Article
How popular culture absorbs and processes the immigrant experience; The Next Becoming American: film and discussion series
April 25, 2019 11:50 am Leave your thoughts“The Search for General Tso,” asks: If Chinese Americans comprise only 1 percent of the U.S. population, why are there... View Article
What’s Happening This Week?
April 22, 2019 1:08 pm Leave your thoughtsHappy Birthday, Miss Emmerton! We wanted to start off this week with a belated birthday wish to our founder, Caroline... View Article
‘Bewitched’ gave new meaning to ‘witchcraft’
April 20, 2019 4:41 pm Leave your thoughtsNews Release “Bewitched” is more than a television show from the ‘70s, more than a controversial statue in downtown Salem,... View Article
PRESS RELEASE: Celebrated journalist Ryan Walsh links 1968 Boston with Van Morrison’s legendary album ‘Astral Weeks’
April 8, 2019 4:20 pm Leave your thoughtsSALEM — It’s not too great a stretch to compare genius singer-songwriter Van Morrison — introverted, moody and creatively driven... View Article
Pop! Goes The Gables Exhibit Opening
April 5, 2019 5:00 pmJoin us for the opening night of Pop! Goes The Gables. Our 2019 exhibit will explore how Hawthorne’s novel and... View Article