This will be a Facebook Live event. Tune into our Facebook Channel at 2:00 on Wednesday August 19. Dan Gagnon will return as our speaker for the month. He will give us a presentation on local sites in Danvers where people can walk to. The sites he will discuss are…
Facebook LIVE event Tune into our Facebook channel at 2:00 on Wednesday July 15 or watch our Discover Danvers Roundtable on YouTube! Artifacts come to life through the eyes of volunteer researchers from Salem State University. Unfortunately, we will not have live audience participation nor a moderated discussion this spring….
On June 24th we will have a video presentation on our Facebook of Paul Harty. He is a local musician who knows about the history on pop music and culture. This will be on our Facebook page at 2:00 as a LIVE video recording. This is a great opportunity to…
Since we couldn’t have our 3rd Grade students here for their field trip, we decided to bring the field trip to everyone through this video! We have Sheila Cooke-Kayser, our education chair, and Amy Driscoll, our curator volunteer discussing the Discover Danvers Artifacts. There is so much to be learned…
In celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the tea party on the Page House roof, we have our volunteers reciting the poem, “The Gambrel Roof.” written by Lucy Larcom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9sGS2gux9w
Matt Martin, our Buildings and Grounds Manager produced this video in celebration of Tea 250th. He discusses plants and how some of these herbs can be used for making tea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yx7pBdalUY
Sarah's Virtual Tea Party Today we celebrated the 250th anniversary of the tea party on the roof of the Page House hosted by Sarah Page. We went back in time, met Sarah, and had some tea on the lawn. Posted by Danvers Historical Society on Wednesday, May 20, 2020
The Connors farm was originally owned by my great grandfather, who came from Ireland in the 1850’s. It was located where the police station is today. The farm then moved up to Locust St (the Valley Road where it is today In my youth, farms were spread all over Danvers…
When I was about five years old, my family moved to a new home on Lane Parkway. As you know, this is a short road that runs between Park St. and Conant St. opposite the entrance to the baseball feel at Plains Park. #7 – Baseball and Penny Candy copy
During the senior year in high school, a buddy named Edward Fallis, had an automobile that was in need of a new tire. Since this was wartime, tires were not easy to find, so Ed had to become inventive. #6 – The New Tire copy
My life-long adventures in learning began at the tender age of three when my mother enrolled me in Mrs. Perkins’ Kindergarten on Oak Street in a lovely large Victorian. #3 – Kindergarten Morano copy
Recently the Towns of Danvers and Middleton lost one of its very special educators and a wonderful woman at the noteworthy age of 102. Mrs. Ethel Lee was a very special lady and an extremely gifted teacher who influenced many hundreds, if not thousands of children in Danvers and Middleton…