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Good Fortune for Tuesday’s Emoji Lecture

Date: May 22, 2019

Pick up a copy of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles in our Museum Store (save your receipt!) and come to hear Jenny 8. Lee for free on Tuesday night! Our Museum Store is open during our regular operating hours and you don’t need to tour to visit the store! Jennifer 8. Lee is one of the...

What’s Happening This Week?

Date: May 20, 2019

We’re so excited to announce that after months of waiting for the right weather, our painters have finally dodged enough raindrops to complete the painting of The House of the Seven Gables! The house is now well-protected for the coming years. We’d like to send a special thank you to the team at Aubuchon Hardware...

Support The Gables

Date: May 15, 2019

Receive a free household membership with exclusive benefits… By making a $500 donation to The Gables today, in addition to helping us further our efforts in preservation and education, you will receive: Unlimited visits A front row seat at The Gables to watch Salem’s Fourth of July Fireworks extravaganza Access to our NEW research library FREE...

What’s Happening This Week?

Date: May 8, 2019

We have had a lot of preservation work happening at The Gables over the past few weeks. As with any construction project, there are bound to be surprises. Let us tell you – this was a doozy! Since last fall we have been working with local contractors on the install of new HVAC units in...

What’s Happening This Week?

Date: May 6, 2019

Tomorrow is your last chance to order from our Online Store for Priority Mail shipping in time for Mother’s Day this weekend. We have a great selection of books, jewelry, Gables memorabilia and more. If you are local, we encourage to come to visit. Not only can you enjoy the seaside blooms, but you can...

The final Becoming American Community Conversation

Date: April 30, 2019

The final Becoming American community conversation will take place Wednesday, May 1 at The Gables. The Search for General Tso will be shown at 6:00 p.m. This unique documentary will spur a conversation about immigration and pop culture. The Search for General Tso asks: “If Chinese Americans comprise only 1 percent of the U.S. population,...

What’s Happening This Week?

Date: April 29, 2019

If April showers bring May flowers then we are most certainly ready for May! Our tulips are starting to pop, so be sure to come by for a stroll through our seaside gardens, check out the paint progress on The Gables, and celebrate some sunshine and warm weather. Our final Becoming American community conversation will...

How popular culture absorbs and processes the immigrant experience; The Next Becoming American: film and discussion series

Date: April 25, 2019

“The Search for General Tso,” asks: If Chinese Americans comprise only 1 percent of the U.S. population, why are there Chinese restaurants in almost every city across America?” Newcomers to this country arrive with a suitcase and a set of expectations derived, in part, from American popular culture. In turn, the very same newcomers make...

What’s Happening This Week?

Date: April 22, 2019

Happy Birthday, Miss Emmerton! We wanted to start off this week with a belated birthday wish to our founder, Caroline Emmerton! Caroline Osgood Emmerton was born on April 21, 1866, in Salem, Mass.  Emmerton grew up in a city that was transitioning from its past as a major shipping port to its future as a manufacturing...

‘Bewitched’ gave new meaning to ‘witchcraft’ 

Date: April 20, 2019

News Release “Bewitched” is more than a television show from the ‘70s, more than a controversial statue in downtown Salem, more than a twitchy nose. Salem, for whom ‘witchcraft’ holds uniquely somber meaning, saw its burden lighten when “Bewitched” was broadcast into tens of millions of homes in America. The show was a cultural influencer...