Posts about North Shore
My Priceless Pumpkin Pictures
A few of my autumn photographs from Russell Orchards in Ipswich, Massachusetts, are featured this week on MasterCard’s Priceless.com website.
Russell Orchards is one of my favorite places in the world, especially in the fall, and I’m happy to recommend it and give them a little publicity — not that they need it.
Priceless Picks — “Delicious doughnuts, perfect pumpkins”
Posted: October 31st, 2007 under North Shore, Photographs.
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Capitol Diner : It’s the Real Thing
The Capitol DIner is in downtown Lynn, but it’s tucked away on Union Street, just off Washington Street, and it’s a beautiful example of a dying breed : a real diner.
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Posted: August 29th, 2007 under Diners, North Shore.
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Howard Street Cemetery: Salem, Mass.
Salem is a city that values its history, if only as a salable commodity. But a visit to the Howard Street Cemetery doesn’t speak well for the community. This historic cemetery is right downtown, near the train station, near the Peabody Essex Museum, within walking distance of all of Salem’s tourist attractions, and it is, quite simply, a disgrace. Graves are overgrown, stones are tipped and some are broken, their pieces simply left lying on the ground. It’s full of leaves and litter, including a lot of old alcohol bottles.
The graves here seem to be mostly from the early 1800s, and as with all old cemeteries, you can’t help but notice how many babies and young children there are, often two or three from the same family.
Perhaps this cemetery has received so little attention and care because by Salem standards, it’s not old enough. No Mayflower passengers here, no Salem Witch Trial judges here. And its location is unfortunate, sharing a long border with the old Salem Jail Complex, a historically significant site that has been empty for more than fifteen years, has become derelict and damaged by fires. The jail site and cemetery are included in tours of Salem’s haunted places, since supposedly people see ghosts here. The Jail Complex is scheduled for development, so perhaps the Howard Street Cemetery will get cleaned up as part of that effort. I haven’t seen that mentioned anywhere.
But as it is now, the Howard Street Cemetery is a disgrace to the City of Salem.
Salem Jail and Howard Street Cemetery — More of my photographs
Most Endangered Historic Resources: Salem Jail Complex — Information from Historic Salem, Inc.
Posted: March 25th, 2007 under North Shore.
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