October 17 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Derby Wharf 160 Derby Street Salem MA Event Details In honor of Salem’s 400th anniversary, Destination Salem is inviting everyone to join in for Witch Hats on the Wharf, a one-of-a-kind community photo opportunity and world record attempt on Salem’s historic waterfront. Wear your favorite witch hat...
Would you like to live deliciously with us? Written by Robert Eggers and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, this haunting film follows a Puritan family in 1630s New England who are plagued by witchcraft and demonic possession. This history-focused horror movie screening is part of our Salem 400+ programming. See our full list of events at pem.org/salem400....
Join us at the City Hall Council Chambers to raise the flag for Intersex Awareness month.
Zero Waste Salem is hosting a Repair Café as part of Salem 400+, celebrating sustainable practices that honor our past and invest in our future. Volunteers will be available to mend clothing, sew buttons, and tinker with electronics—skills passed down through generations that help us build a more sustainable Salem for the next 400 years....
Join James Fichter as he discusses profit and peril in the new trade to Asia With independence from Britain secured, in the 1780s American began trading to Asia for themselves. They bought tea in China. They sailed to the East India Company-administered India for cloth, to Yemen and Dutch Java for coffee, to Sumatra for...
The Puritans of New England were a people very well acquainted with death and their idiosyncratic relationship with it led to a rich funeral culture that persisted for years after the collapse of the Puritan movement. A ritual that involved copious alcohol, but no sermons, the 17th Century funeral is at once very similar and...
Join us in raising the Albanian flag to celebrate Albanian Independence Day!
Join the Fo’c’sle Four (Bob Strom, Jen Strom, Michael O’Leary and Gary Dolinsky) for an afternoon of rollicking sea shanties, ballads and other traditional songs from Salem and Gloucester. Music in the Atrium is PEM’s live concert series that features local and visiting performers from a variety of musical traditions and styles. Concerts take place...