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Review of The New England Pirate Museum
Yes, The New England Pirate Museum is another Salem attraction in which the wax mannequins outnumber the staff, but unlike the Witch Museum, this is not a pre-recorded experience. This place is staffed...
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House of the Seven Gables Review
A visit to the House of the Seven Gables is a little like a visit to Salem itself. You go because it’s famous and everyone says you should, and you leave thinking that it was nice but also wondering...
View ArticleSons of Liberty, Historical Fiction, and Accuracy
There’s a lot of talk in the history community online this week about the History Channel miniseries SONS OF LIBERTY. The show is the kind of swashbuckling adventure I enjoy, and while it strays...
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H. P. Lovecraft’s Summer Home
I read Lovecraft at an impressionably young age, so when I first began working in Salem at the former Essex Institute, now the Peabody Essex Museum, where Charles Dexter Ward was, “very kindly...
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Planning Your Halloween Visit to Salem, Massachusetts, The Witch City
The late lamented Eerie Events at the Peabody Essex Museum circa 2002. The author is on the right. Every October I get a mailbox full of requests for travel advice from friends, family, and readers who...
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Friendship of Salem Review
If Jerathmiel Peirce and Aaron Waite had named their 342 ton East Indiaman the Revenge, the Sea Witch, or the Black Joke, her replica would be the most visited attraction in Salem today. The...
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