Trails & Sails is organized by the Essex National Heritage Commission, an organization that is based in Salem but that works to promote, preserve, and enhance the myriad historic, cultural, and natural assets in the Essex National Heritage Area. The Area includes the 34 communities of Essex County, Massachusetts, reaching from just north of Boston to the New Hampshire border.
Whether you are interested in sailing the high seas, a cemetery walk, historic architecture, or family activities - Trails & Sails has events to appeal to you. And it is all free. Free, I say!
Prepare yourself to be wooed during Trails & Sails, because Essex Heritage and the sites that are hosting all of these fabulous events want you to fall in love with the sites, the landscapes, and the region. Once you are hooked, they want you to become steward for the sites and ambassadors for the region.
It's not hard to do. This is a remarkable region with a wealth of assets and history. So go, explore, enjoy - and engage. Come back again and again, join the organizations and become and Essex Heritage Explorer. You'll love how much there is to explore.
Here are the Salem sites participating in Trails & Sails Salem, which is a great place to start!
1812 Privateer FAME: Go Sail
Cruise the historic waters of Salem Sound aboard our full-scale replica of the 1812 privateer schooner FAME! Aboard the new FAME, passengers learn about the fishermen, pirates, privateers, traders and men of war who shaped our
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Website: SchoonerFame.com
Dates: 09-20 Sunday 1:00PM No reservations. Ticket booth opens at 12:30.
Salem Maritime NHS is pleased to present a sneak preview of the upcoming Ken Burns film The National Parks: America`s Best Idea. A 45-minute preview of the six-episode series will be shown at 4:00 PM in the auditorium at the
Location: 2 New
Website: www.nps.gov/sama
Dates: 09-26 Saturday 4:00PM
Art meets Nature at PEM!
Listen to a story about circles in nature and create a giant collaborative mandala from colorful natural materials for everyone at PEM to see! Visit the new exhibition in the Art & Nature center, Trash Menagerie and discover the many ways in which artists use trash from their environment to create amazing works of art!
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Website: www.pem.org
Special Directions: First come, first serve.
Dates: 09-20 Sunday 3:00PM
Chestnut Street Stroll
Enjoy a leisurely stroll down
Location: Corner of Chestnut, Summer, and
Website: www.historicnewengland.org
Dates: 09-26 Saturday 10:00AM
Circuit of
Join in on a 2.5 miles leisurely walk over some steep terrain in historic Salem Woods. We will introduce the history of the woods and note some of the flora and fauna of this diverse habitat. If you'd like, bring along binoculars for bird watching and field guides to investigate something of interest along your walk!
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Dates: 09-26 Saturday 9:00AM
Dearest Dove
Join us for a theatrical performance of Dearest Dove: The Courtship of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne written exclusively for The House of the Seven Gables. Witness this historic romance in a 30 minute production featuring
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Website: www.7gables.org
Special Directions: Parking lot on site for use during visit.
Dates: 09-20 Sunday 2:00PM Sunday 9/20/2009 2:00 - 3:00pm
Hidden on the roof of the Hawthorne Hotel is an exact replica of a cabin from the
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Website: www.hawthornehotel.com
Special Directions: Free parking adjacent to Hawthorne Hotel
Dates: 09-19 Saturday 1:00PM 2:00PM 3:00PM Event length is 25-30 minutes
Junior Ranger Days
Earn your Junior Ranger badge while exploring Salem Maritime National Historic Site. Try your hand at planning your voyage to the Far East including places you've never traveled, decide which trade goods will make you the most money, round up the crew who will join you on this adventure - All during the Golden Age of Sail in the late 1700s! Explore and have fun!
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Website: www.nps.gov/sama
Dates: 09-26 Saturday All Day Event 9am - 5pm, with tours throughout the day
09-27 Sunday All Day Event 9am - 5pm, with tours throughout the day
Lunch Hour at the Gedney House
Spend your lunch hour touring the Gedney House. Take a tour of the Gedney House, a stunning example of a Colonial American house, estimated to have been constructed circa 1665. The house is significant for its structural carpentry and for surviving early paint and decorative finishes. Take a peek into one of
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Website: www.historicnewengland.org/visit/homes/gedney.htm
Dates: 09-25 Friday All Day Event 12-1 and 1-2
Marine Lab Exploration
The Cat Cove Marine Laboratory is operated by Salem State College to promote the sustainable use of aquatic resources on the
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Website: www.salemstate.edu/biology/aquaculture
Dates: 09-18 Friday 3:00PM
09-25 Friday 3:00PM
Sophia Hawthorne's
Join National Park Service Historian Emily Murphy as she portrays Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia on a 90 minute walking tour of historic
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Website: www.nps.gov/sama
Dates: 09-19 Saturday 10:00AM 2:00PM
09-26 Saturday 10:00AM 2:00PM
Tales From the Sea
Explore maritime art through objects that celebrate the grandeur of the sea and express seafaring life.
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Website: www.pem.org
Dates: 09-20 Sunday 10:00AM
09-27 Sunday 10:00AM
Join Historic Salem Inc's Sunday Walking Tour of the
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Website: www.historicsalem.org
Special Directions: Meet at the Cemetery Chapel
Dates: 09-27 Sunday 1:00PM
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