Date: January 24, 2012
The 7 Gables’ onsite gift shop is filled with the most wonderful goodies for you, your family and friends…I, who write this blog, was blown away by a recent visit to the store! Storybook bracelets were one of the items that were so very special! Some of the bracelets feature only books that were once...
Date: January 20, 2012
Salem FINALLY got some snow! Our first “real” snow of the winter season! It has been a great winter in New England – relatively mild and very dry, so we’ve been spoiled with unseasonably nice weather! The Gables looks pretty in the snow – below is a shot of the House of the Seven Gables...
Date: January 18, 2012
Below are previews of two of the new galleries in the Hawthorne Birthplace House featuring personal effects of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s that have never been exhibited before! We are also very excited for the lovely quotes by Hawthorne which have been hand painted in calligraphy on some of the walls in the new galleries! They look...
Date: January 16, 2012
We have been busily going through our photo archives (among other things) and have found some fabulous pictures from the past that we would like to share. As you may or may not be aware, the House of the Seven Gables has fantastic buildings and gardens for hosting a perfect event. As spring and summer...
Date: January 13, 2012
Here are a few more photos to show the calligraphy being installed in the Hawthorne House! First the quotes were mapped out to size on paper: Then pencilled precisely in on the wall to match: Painstakingly hand-painted on the wall: And the finished product: The final touches are to heat-dry the paint and then erase...
Date: January 13, 2012
Happy New Year to you and to the 7 Gables! Today is our opening day for the New Year with loads of fantastic changes for our visitors to experience. In comparison to the disarray of the rooms in the Gables and the Hawthorne house, today all the rooms are put together perfectly: The bedroom in...
Date: January 12, 2012
We are re-opening on Friday, January 13th after a hiatus for most of the staff here at the Gables. Many of the core staff, however, have been hard at work reworking the Gables’ exhibits, creating new galleries, new marketing pieces and even creating some new educational pieces to be shared with our visitors. In the...
Date: January 11, 2012
We got a bit of snow here in Salem a couple of days ago and it has remained in just a few choice areas around our site including a very small “pile” here by our sign! It has been a mild year so far for those of us in the Northeast and really quite pleasant for...
Date: January 10, 2012
Welcome to the official blog for the House of the Seven Gables! We are excited to introduce our blog and hope that this forum will be able to capture some of the vibrant new changes we have planned for 2012 and beyond. We will also be featuring some of the lesser known facts about the...
Date: January 1, 1970
