Classic poems for All Hallows Eve — Oct. 26th and 28th, 2017

In addition to Edgar Allan Poe readings happening at Remix Church on Oct. 14, we have classic poems for All Hallows Eve on Oct. 26th and 28th at the Gedney House!

Per the Gedney House event page:

“Enjoy a curated selection of classic poems about ghosts, goblins , spirits, and All Hallows’ Eve, dramatically presented in a seventeenth-century shipbuilder’s house by lantern light.

$5 Historic New England members
$10 nonmembers
Registration is required. Please call 978-744-0440 for more information or register online.”
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Gedney House, 21 High Street Salem, MA 01970.

A little about the Gedney House…

“Salem shipwright Eleazer Gedney built the earliest portion of Gedney House in 1665. Originally the house was asymmetrical, with two rooms on the first floor, a single chamber above, and an attic with a front-facing gable. Significant renovations in 1712 and 1800 resulted in dramatic changes to the house’s appearance. Gedney House is significant both for its framing and for its evidence of early decorative finishes in the hall chamber and parlor.

Gedney House was a single-family home until the Gedney family sold it in 1773 to Benjamin Cox, who used it for the next twenty-five years as an investment property. Around 1800, Cox added two townhouse-style ells to the west elevation of the house, converting it into a multi-family dwelling. During the years that followed, it served as a boarding house and tenement in what was then Salem’s Italian-American neighborhood. In 1967 Historic New England acquired the house as it was being prepared for demolition.”

Enjoy!! <3

 

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