Pickering House
Discover 18th-century Salem through the lives of the Pickering Family, as their home witnessed a century of transformation. This lecture explores how Salem evolved from a provincial port town into a hub of revolution, commerce, and global connections, while the Pickerings navigated the tides of independence, politics, and daily life. See how one family’s story...
Pickering House
Kenneth Dyke-Glover has found a map, done by the Works Project Administration (WPA) in the early 1900s, showing that about 104 veterans, including more than 70 Revolutionary War Veterans, are buried in various graves and tombs in our cemetery, mostly without their names. Before this map was found, we thought there were 5 Revolutionary War...
Pickering House
Join us for an afternoon discussing one of the lesser-known skirmishes of the early Revolutionary War. Colonel Timothy Pickering was present on that day and at his home 250 years later, we’ll gather together local historians and pull out objects from our archives and more as we discuss the events of that storied day and...
