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The House of the Seven Gables: A Staged Reading
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By JF Dacey,
playwright
In the spring of 1967, a good friend asked if I could help him out;
and I told him I would. As a result of his request, I took the
fateful plunge into the wild and woolly world of community theatre.
Since then I have never left it. I have acted in plays and directed
plays. I have designed sets and painted sets. I have moved scenery,
hung lights, and stage managed more productions than I could count.
As a true theatre junkie, I have also swept out the house and
scrubbed out the restrooms.
Sometime around 2006 I took another plunge, this time into
playwriting. I turned out a collection of nine quirky short plays. I
gave them the omnibus title, "Anatomically Correct." I had
the good fortune to see them produced at my "home" theatre
in Tyngsboro, Mass. These were followed by a few more short pieces.
Soon I began to think I should try my hand at a full-length script;
but since I did not have any ideas for a full-length play, that idea
was put on hold. Then, in the spring of 2009...
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Click the
image above to watch The Gables' own Kara McLaughlin and David Moffat
on Newton Access TV's Museum
Open House.
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Stories
From The Settlement
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Once again
this year, The Gables’ Adult ESL and Citizenship program attracted
many eager adult students. Since the spring of 2014, The Gables has
offered instruction in English as a Second Language and citizenship
to adults in Salem and other cities of the North Shore.
For the fall segment of the program, students attended classes twice
a week, on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, at Salem Academy Charter
School. Demonstrating their drive as new immigrants, three new
citizens emerged from the citizenship program, led by instructor
Néstor Grullón. The proud new citizens are: Luchy
Jiménez, Germania Peguero, and Altagracia Zoquier. As the
holidays approached...
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Preservation Never Stops - Even During Shutdown
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Some say
that idle hands are the devil’s tools. In the case of our two week
shutdown from January 1-11, the staff of The Gables will not be idle.
While we are closed to the public during this period, there will be
quite a bit of activity here at 115 Derby Street. This window gives
our staff the time to care for our extensive collection in our
historic houses and storage areas.
The first task will be to shed the holiday decorations found across
the site and pack them away for next year. Then the fun begins. After
a collections care refresher training for the staff, we will begin to
carefully clean collections items found around the site. Materials to
be cleaned include wood surfaces and furniture, silver ware, windows
and other glass, porcelain, earthenware, iron, and more. Our staff
will work in teams to ensure that each room in The Gables and the
other buildings are finished in time for the reopening of the museum
on January 12. Collections items are routinely cleaned throughout the
year, but during our annual shutdown in January, we are able to give
much more specific attention to all of the objects without
interfering with tours. The grounds and maintenance crew will also be
hard at work on some projects that can not be done during operating
hours.
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In
1935, The House of the Seven Gables Settlement Association
founder, Caroline O. Emmerton, published a small hardcover book about
our historic site. Her book titled The
Chronicles of Three Old Houses details her lifelong
familiarity with the house and its association with famed Salem
author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
First opened in 1910, growing visitation to the house and interest in
its storied past made a detailed account of its restoration a
frequent request. The book is her account of how she began a
neighborhood settlement house, and soon afterwards...
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The House of the Seven Gables: A Staged Reading
January 19 and 20, 7:00-8:30pm
January 21, 2:00-3:30pm
Kick off the 350th anniversary of The House of the
Seven Gables with a unique staged reading experience of Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s famed novel. Watch the characters come to life and
explore themes of greed and guilt in Puritan New England. This
production was written by local playwright Jack Dacey and will be
produced by John Fogle.
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The House of the Seven Gables will be welcoming
residents from our surrounding communities to be a part of the
350th anniversary of the famed Turner-Ingersoll mansion. Free
guided tours will be available with a valid i.d. Tour times vary
throughout the day.
Free
for Swampscott residents with valid i.d.
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The House of the Seven Gables will have photographer
Mark Chester’s work The
Baystate: A Multicultural Landscape on view from
January 30 – March 2 in the Visitor Center during normal operating hours.
One
in six of us in Massachusetts was born in another country. This
extraordinary project by the photographer Mark Chester captures the
rich diversity of the Commonwealth’s immigrant and refugee
community. A sample of the collection, which contains more than 400
portraits, will be on view.
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The House of the Seven Gables will be welcoming
residents from our surrounding communities to be a part of the
350th anniversary of the famed Turner-Ingersoll mansion. Free
guided tours will be available with a valid i.d. Tour times vary
throughout the day.
Free
for Marblehead residents with valid i.d.
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The House of the Seven Gables will have photographer
Mark Chester’s work The
Baystate: A Multicultural Landscape on view from
January 30 – March 2. Join us for an opening reception followed by
the first Community Conversation of
2018. Diane Portnoy, the director of the Immigrant Learning Center
in Malden and Mr. Chester will explore the impact of immigrants in
Massachusetts while sharing some stories behind the images on view.
This
event is free and open to the public. RSVP’s are appreciated.
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