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Life and Labor at The Gables
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Things don’t just happen. Someone has to work towards them; labor to bring about their completion. For almost 350 years people have labored in and around The House of The Seven Gables. House-wrights built the home. Families started and expanded businesses. Indentured servants labored to fulfill the terms of a contract, and enslaved people toiled to support and enrich their owners with no hope of ever being compensated for their endeavors...
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Is mise Shiobhain Ní Shúilleabháin
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In her first language, Joan Sullivan could introduce herself in two different ways: “Siobhain Ní Shúilleabháin is ainm dom” (“Joan O’Sullivan is the name at me”) or “Is mise Siobhain Ní Shúilleabháin” (“It’s myself Joan O’Sullivan”). In the course of many months of discussion with the writer-director of the theatrical experience, I Am Joan Sullivan, I’ve come to think of this project as “Is mise Shiobhain Ní Shúilleabháin.”
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What's New in Preservation?
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Monitoring the conditions of our collections and historic architecture is no easy task. Last summer, The House of the Seven Gables was fortunate to form two partnerships to help us record temperatures, humidity, and light levels in the areas of our museum campus where we display collections...
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The Settlement Legacy -- Renewed, and Rising
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Lishbeht Ramos, intern at The Gables during this past year, proudly graduated from Salem State University in May with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Early Childhood Education.
While at The Gables, she helped with various Settlement initiatives, including the celebration of Hispanic Heritage month and two voter registration drives last October...
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The Gables will once again host members, friends and family as we celebrate the Fourth of July and the birthday of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Guests should bring their own picnic, blanket, and lawn chairs for a front-row seat to the City of Salem’s extraordinary fireworks display over the harbor...
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The warm spring weather has finally arrived, and so too has our annual order of t-shirts. Comfortable and made of 100% cotton, our t-shirts come in a variety of colors and sizes and are screen printed with our exclusive logos. Purchase a t-shirt and proudly wear it, knowing you are supporting our charitable nonprofit mission of preservation and education.
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Essex County Freedom Suits in Revolutionary Massachusetts
June 11, 2017
6:00pm - 8:00pm
The next in our Seven Lectures at Seven Gables series with Jeanne Pickering who will review how slavery's gradual ending in revolutionary Massachusetts began with lawsuits for freedom filed by enslaved people in Essex County.
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A Festival of Food
June 3, 2017
2:00pm - 5:30pm
Enjoy samples of food and beverages from some of the finest establishments in town on this special Salem Food Tours event.
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U.S. Senior Open at Salem Country Club
June 26 - July 2, 2017
133 Forest Street, Peabody, MA
The House of the Seven Gables is pleased to support this once-in-a-lifetime local event! Consider attending the US Senior Open at the historic Salem Country Club. Tickets would make a perfect Father's Day Gift.
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