TF: Salem

Salem is a great place to visit most times of the year. October, however has both good and bad points. It is probably the most crowded time of the year to visit. They celebrate Haunted Happenings all month so tourists are many and school groups also. Alot of high schoolers especially after reading the House of Seven Gables and the Scarlet Letter. It is a great seaside town, we really enjoy visiting it whenever we can.



This is probably the most popular and most recognizable museum in Salem...The Salem Witch Museum it chronicles the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 in which 180 people were accused 19 people were hanged and one man crushed to death by stones. Pooh was to afraid to go in so we just took pictures outside.

We could not make a trip to Salem without stopping in at the Hawthorne Hotel a beautiful hotel that is in the National Historic Hotel group. That is where Michael works and here is Pooh in the lobby with the pumpkin family.

This is Brannon and Pooh(although he wouldn't hold Pooh for the picture) at the Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial. It is in memory of all of the fisherman that have been lost at sea. Most notable are the names of the men who were lost in 1991's "Perfect Storm", you may recall the movie starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlburg (a Boston native I might add).

We ended our day by stopping in at Hammond Castle, a medievil castle in Gloucester, MA on the northshore. Unfortunately it was closed for the day, but it is a beautiful castle that was built by

John Hays Hammond, Jr. between the years 1926 and 1929 to serve both as his home and as a backdrop for his collection of Roman, medieval, and Renaissance artifacts. In addition, the building housed the Hammond Research Corporation, from which Dr. Hammond produced over 400 patents and the ideas for over 800 inventions