January Meeting is Dinner Out at FINZ

HDSNA January Meeting is 'Dinner Out at FINZ'

Let's start the new year with great conversation, great company, and great food!

Monday, January 15, 2018

6 pm at FINZ seafood & grill

76 Wharf Street

Pickering Wharf

Check out the new menu: Menus - Finz Seafood and Grill

RSVP to Margaret Crosby margaret.crosby6@gmail.com

The House of Seven Gables January 2017

STORYTELLING The House of the Seven Gables: A Staged Reading 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... Continue Reading >> MEDIA The Gables on TV Click the image above to watch The Gables' own Kara McLaughlin and David Moffat on Newton Access TV's Museum Open House. SETTLEMENT Stories From The Settlement 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... Continue Reading >> PRESERVATION Preservation Never Stops - Even During Shutdown 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. MUSEUM STORE Gifts at The Gables 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... Continue Reading >> UPCOMING EVENTS 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.   Purchase Tickets >> Welcome Home, Swampscott January 28, 2018 10:00am-5:00pm 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. Learn More >> The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape January 30 - March 2, 2018 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. Learn More >> Welcome Home, Marblehead January 21, 2018 10:00am-5:00pm 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. Learn More >> Exhibit Opening and Community Conversation January 30, 2018 6:00-8:00pm 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. RSVP Here >> Copyright © 2018 The House of the Seven Gables, All rights reserved.