Essex Heritage ISSUES AND EVENTS
Featured Partner Event: Seven Lectures at
The Seven Gables: Giles Laroche
June 19,
2013 • The House of the Seven Gables, 115 Derby Street, Salem, MA, 01970
Salem’s
noted children’s author and illustrator will delight the audience (young and
old) with a demo of his art form, discussion and reading of his latest book “If
You Lived Here - Houses of the World."
Salem Maritime Festival
August 3,
2013 • Salem Maritime National Historic Site, 193 Derby Street, Salem, MA,
01970
Celebrate
Four Centuries of Salem's Maritime Heritage!
Featured Partner Event: Seven Lectures at
The Seven Gables: Seven Lectures at The Seven Gables: Hank Phillipi Ryan
August 21,
2013 • The House of the Seven Gables, 115 Derby Street, Salem, MA, 01970
How does an
Emmy winning reporter become a best-selling author of fast-paced murder
mysteries? Hank will share how she went from a reporter at Rolling Stone
Magazine to the US Senate and then to under-cover investigations for NBC to
following her dreams.
Featured Partner Event: Seven Lectures at
The Seven Gables: Robyn Kantar
September
21, 2013 • The House of the Seven Gables, 115 Derby Street, Salem, MA, 01970
Robyn
Kanter, of Kanter Design Associates, worked under Dan Foley when he
relandscaped the garden and has remained true to its vision.
Featured Partner Event: Seven Lectures at
The Seven Gables: Brunonia Barry
November 20,
2013 • The House of the Seven Gables, 115 Derby Street, Salem, MA, 01970
Salem’s own
NY Times Best-selling author, Baccante award winner & Strnad Fellowship
recipient presents her latest novel fresh off the press.
Reservations
recommended.
Essex
Heritage and Seven Gables Members $10; Non-Members $15.
News about the Congressional Evaluation of
Essex Heritage for the Congress about the work of Essex Heritage
Just prior
to the holiday all of the Essex Heritage Board received the following news from
Annie Harris that is most positive and an endorsement of the Essex Heritage
work being accomplished. We have waited
for this report for a long time, and we are most pleased with the evaluation of
the work of the numerous volunteers that make this effort so valuable to the
Essex Heritage region
Dear Members of the Essex Heritage
Board of Trustees:
I am pleased to report that National
Park Service’s evaluation of the work of the Essex National Heritage Area and
their subsequent recommendations were released and sent to the US Congress last
week. I have attached the NPS documents
to this email.
You may remember that in 2008 Congress
passed a bill PL 110-229 which required that NPS evaluate nine National
Heritage Areas to assess our individual progress in meeting our legislative
mandate, achieving the goals of our management plan, making impactful
investments in the area and identifying the critical components for our
sustainability. You will see that we did
well in all of these areas. It took a
long time to see this plan completed and I am delighted to be able to share
this with you today!
Have a good Memorial Day weekend! Annie
Danvers Kiwanis Club, Makes Financial
Contribution To Essex Heritage
One of the
major initiatives, I am supporting for Essex Heritage, is to seek contributions
from local commercial contributions to develop financial support of the mission
of Essex Heritage. This is being
accomplished by seeking corporate entities that might be happy to join the
Essex Heritage Corporate Program. Over
the last several weeks, I have been communicating with the leadership of the
Danvers Kiwanis Club about a membership.
It appears that the Danvers Social/Business group is not able to
contribute to a Corporate Membership Program but they have provided a
substantial amount of funding that will be allocated to one of the many youth
educational programs that have been developed by the partnership. This program
has been developed between Essex Heritage and the activities of Essex
Heritage’s partner The National Park Service as they work with disadvantaged
youth in the region we serve.
My first
contact with the Danvers Group was several years ago when business members of
that group asked if I would be willing to address them as a luncheon
speaker. I used this opportunity to
explain our overall mission of Essex Heritage and must have made a positive
impression. I followed up that
presentation with a Past President of that group, when we had a formal Gift
Giving Program in place. I reached out
to Ms. Kay Maurice who provides administrative support to The Headmaster at St,
John’s Prep. She in turn directed me to
C R Lyon’s Funeral Home in Danvers who was my best contact. He is the President
Elect of the group for 2013.
Regional Issues
News and Events from the Danvers Historical
Society
Programs and
Fundraisers:
·
Fri. June 7, 2013 Onion Town Variety Show 7 PM
Tapley Hall
·
Thurs. June 13, 2013 Annual Meeting, Dinner
and 50th Anniversary of our purchasing
GMF gala. Vinwood Caterers. Wine and
cheese reception 5:30, The Essex Harmony at 6:30 followed by buffet dinner
$35.00 members $45 no-yet members.
Please send me your check by June 7.
·
Mon. June 24, 2013 History, Harmony, Hot Dogs
and Hits. GMF. Baseball returns with Essex Baseball Team taking on Danvers High
School! Britannica will rock the mansion.
Rain Date Mon. July 1, 2013 (Family Festival)
·
Weds. June 26, 2013 Danvers 3rd Graders Foresee
the Future Exhibit Tapley Memorial Hall 3-6 PM (Family Festival)
·
Fri. July 12, 2013 Onion Town Variety Show 7 PM
Tapley Memorial Hall
·
Fri. August 9, 2013 Onion Town Variety Show 7 PM
Tapley Memorial Hall
·
Fri. Sept. 6, 2013 Onion Town Variety Show
·
Sept. 2013
Program TBD
·
Mon. Sept. 16, 2013 Golf Tournament Black Swan
C.C. $125 includes golf, cart, lunch and lots of fun!! or sponsor a hole for
$125. Other sponsor levels available.
·
Oct. 2012 program TBD
·
Thurs. Nov. 14, 2013 program: Richard Trask “JFK
Assassination, A Personal Perspective” 7 PM Tapley Memorial Hall
Rail Trail Ceremony in Danvers
The Town’s
of Danvers and Wenham have received State Grants to complete the stone dust
surface on the 5.2 mile trail that had rough, rocky finish on the 5.2 mile
trail. The stone dust that is now being
added will make the trail much more accessible to people on bikes or with
wheelchairs. The two towns will have to
provide a 20% match which will be a bargain when one views the trail when
complete. Later this summer when all of this work is completed and the leg of
the trail in Topsfield is completed, a 7.6 mile uninterrupted section of the
Border to Boston trail long advocated for and championed by The Essex National
Heritage Commission will be completed.
The long-range vision of the trail is a 26 mile run all the way to the
state border. Essex Heritage has long
seen this project as one that will allow access to open space and natural
resources to residents of the region it serves and a most appropriate use of no
longer used rail trails.
Congratulations to the two towns and the state Commission of Recreation
and Conservation that yesterday announced 27 rail trail grants for almost one
million dollars across the state for all of their efforts to see this project
through to completion.
NEWS FROM DANVERS COUNCIL IN AGING
HAVE YOU
EVER HAD A HEART ATTACK?
We want to
know how you obtained medical care when you had your heart attack. We are
asking you to share your experiences. The Heart Study of the Yale University
School of Nursing invites you to complete an anonymous online survey about your
care-seeking experiences. This study is supported by the National Heart, Lung
and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, and has been approved
by the Yale University Institutional Review Board. If you would like to
participate in this study, please go to our website at:
www.heartstudy.yale.edu. Or for more information, please contact Angelo Alonzo,
PhD, study director, at heart.study@yale.edu.
Danvers
Senior Center acknowledged for the third time by the National Association of
Senior Centers.
The Danvers
Senior Center recently held a gathering with Center Officials, and local
elected Town and State officials that celebrated the designation of the Senior
Center. This is the third time the Danvers Center was Nationally Accredited as
a Senior Center. Many friends of the
center attended the event with a series of remarks about how the process was
handled. Due to an injury, I was unable
to attend, but as a former Chairman of the Board of DCOA and a present member
of the volunteer family wanted to offer my congratulations to the staff of the
Danvers Senior Center for another bead on a fast growing string of successes managed
by that dedicated staff. I have had a
number of occasions in the past to visit local senior centers like the Danvers
facility on Stone Street and can only point out and acknowledged how well
served we are if we choose to use the Danvers Center as a place to gather to
obtain services or just gain and renew friendships.
Amesbury Bank Offers Space for Student Art.
The
Provident Bank with a leadership team and committed to regional events is at it
again. President of the Bank Charlie
Cullen, who also serves on the Essex Heritage Development Committee as its
Chairman has made a prominent space in their Amesbury bank lobby for
Newburyport students to display their work as part of in the Bank’s Lobby for
Arts Program. This program is now in its
16th year of a program called “Lobby for the Arts”. The Provident Bank has long been known as a
community partner in numerous events in the many communities it serves.
FARMER’S MARKET TO REOPEN IN SALEM
The very
successful Farmers Market will operate again in Salem on Thursday afternoons
into the evenings from 3 until 7 in space right behind the Old Town Hall. The presentations will take place outside
until October when the market will move inside the Old Town Hall.
People in the news
Passing of a Caretaker: Colleen Bruce
Over the
last several years, I have been connected with a number of organizations in
this region. One of the organizations,
The National Park Service is most concerned with the protection and the support
provided to places. The second
organization, North Shore Elder Services, is actively connected with looking
out for people. These two previously
mentioned attributes are not particular to the Park Service or to North Shore
Elder Services, but only point out the primary attributes of the particular
organization. I am particularly aware
of awards provided annually to individuals connected with Elder Services, as my
wife Marge Leonard received the Caretaker of the Year at the Annual “We Give
Thanks award Dinner” that award was given for the help provided during the time
of my personal recuperation
There is
little doubt in my mind that if the National Park Service had a similar award,
Park Service’s First Maritime Division head Colleen Bruce would have won that
award as the Primary Caretaker of the 171 ft. replica sailing ship FRIENDSHIP.
Colleen
Bruce came to this community to complete the restoration of the historic wharfs
at the Salem Maritime Site. The funding
for that came from the US Congress. She was not involved with the decision to
build a replica sailing ship but it quickly became very clear that when the
ship was recovered from the shipyard in Albany, New York and towed to Salem
that the three decade employee of the Park Service was the person to be placed
in charge of seeing the project to its conclusion. She quickly embraced the project and set out
to build a team of local experts who would assure that the project would be
completed. Park Ranger Bruce worked closely with both Annie Harris, and myself
at the Salem Partnership along with a number of other Salem maritime
professionals like Fred Atkins and Russ Vickers to complete her assigned
tasks.
Colleen
never personally “sailed” the ship but by the same token it never sailed to any
of its ports of call. Without her
devotion to the ship and the many community volunteers that sailed the ship to
its many destinations and then to get it back home to Salem safe and
sound. Many of us connected to the
Salem Partnership wanted to get her to as many ports as was possible and then
show off the work that has been accomplished. Colleen worked closely with all
of us to move the ship around all of Essex County. Late last week Colleen was given a
traditional maritime send off by many of the people she had worked with on the
ship. Her heart and soul and her hands
are over all the ship and we wish you Bon
Voyage wherever you may head.
Colleen recently passed and we wish to rest in peace and thanks for a
great job completed.
Deb Payson Named Director of the Marblehead
Chamber of Commerce
One of the
headlines in the Boston Globe North this past weekend indicated that Ms. Deb
Pesanti Payson had been named to a leadership post with Marblehead
Chamber. The report went on to speak of
her undergraduate degree from Colgate University. The announcement went on to note that prior
to this new assignment that in the past she had been employed by Salem Hospital
and most recently served as the Director of Development and Communications at
the Essex Heritage Commission.
There is no
way that she can move on to larger challenges without a few more comments from
Essex Heritage. We acknowledge this
announcement as most positive for both Deb Payson and the Marblehead
Chamber. We are pleased that her
employment with the Marblehead Chamber will be anything but wonderful for that
organization, as that over her time with Essex Heritage has added to a long
time and mutually beneficial agreement with a most professional manner. We are
confident that she will help them to achieve the goals that have been set for
her. In the period of time that Deb
worked for and with the other members of the staff, members of the Board of
Trustees she accomplished a great deal for Essex Heritage. Her performance as the Director of
Development and Communications for the quasi-public non-profit in Salem was
excellent. She worked with the rest of
the leadership team at Essex Heritage to enhance The Essex Heritage Annual Fund
and numerous other fundraising activities of the organization including the
events with the National Park Service. She did spectacular work on the planning
and operation of the major events offered such as Heritage’s Heritage Hero
Event and the signature event for the commission named, Trails &
Sails. Deb will be greatly missed as
Essex Heritage as they seek a replacement in the many roles that she played for
Essex Heritage. We certainly wish her
all the best as she moves forward with her duties in a new challenge. We are hopeful that we can continue to work
with her and the Chamber of Commerce in Marblehead to improve the region.
“Teams in the News” Another high school season is over and the
region is well represented in the tournament structure. It appears that numerous communities in the
region and we hope to report on all of their successes in this space. At the opening of the program two programs
should be noted as they received number one seeding. St. John’s Prep in positioned # 1, but there are nearly a dozen schools
behind them in the rankings. Softball
in the City of Peabody’s young woman lead the ranking but there are numerous
other entries right on their heels.
Lacrosse has many participants on both the male and female side of the
local draws.
Personal observations
Weather adjustments
Not on
schedule and a week after the first unofficial start of summer, the heat
arrives without much warning. In a flash
we went from late winter to the middle of summer and sent us in search of the
AIR CONDITIONERS.
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