Winter Lecture with Salem Athenaeum

Each winter, Historic Salem joins with the Salem Athenaeum to present a lecure related to some aspect of Salem’s history.  Warm up your January with reflections on life in Salem before automobiles, power plants, commuter rail stations, or Haunted Happenings!

Save the Date!

January 24, 2012

Susan Snively, Director of the Writing Center Amherst Colleges

 

Emily Dickinson’s Salem Connection: 

Judge Otis P. Lord and his Family

 

Previous lectures:

2011:      Rick Hamelin, The Potteries of Salem
2010:     George Schwartz, The Life of John Remond in Antebellum Salem
2009:     Margherita Desy and Donald Friary, The Great Fire of Salem-1914
2008:     Emerson “Tad” Baker, Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England
2007:     Dane Morrison and Kimberly Alexander, Architects of Resistance: Forgotten Heroes of Leslie’s Retreat
2006:     Emerson “Tad” Baker, Quakers in Early Salem and New England