Hale Bradt: Wilber’s War

Author Hale Bradt, chronicles the story of his parents—two ordinary Americans, Wilber and Norma Bradt—during an extraordinary time, World War II. He offers fresh insight—on a deeply personal level—into the historic conflict as it was fought by the U.S. Army in the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and The Philippines and by a family on the home front. It is an epic tale of duty, heroism, love, and human frailty. He adds another uniquely American voice to this rich story: a son seeking to unravel the tangled threads of his family’s legacy. The abridged edition of this story releases today—Pearl Harbor Day.

Member’s Preview Book Sale

Members, plus one guest, have the opportunity to attend this preview book sale on Friday night before the annual book sale opens to the public on Saturday morning.

Proceeds benefit the Salem Athenæum collections and educational programs.

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Inspired to Vote: Election Day in Early Massachusetts

On Columbus Day we will present a program for all ages exploring the traditions of elections in America from the Election Day sermons of the Colonial Era recreated with marionettes to the post-vote celebration with cake made from an authentic recipe.

Picnic with Vintage Back-to-School Flair

Democracy in America: Election 2016: The Aftermath

R.D. Sahl returns for another  town hall discussion on the aftermath of the 2016 Election. You won’t want to miss it!

Sahl_RDR.D. Sahl’s career in broadcast journalism spans more than 40 years. He was evening anchor at Boston-based NECN—the largest regional news network in the country. He has anchored and reported for television stations in Los Angeles and Hartford, Conn. He began his career in radio in his hometown of Boulder, Colo.

Sahl’s assignments have taken him to stories down the block and around the world. He’s reported from Haiti, Japan, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Poland, France, Germany, Italy and the Vatican.

His work has been honored with numerous regional Emmy awards. He’s a recipient of the Yankee Quill award and a member of the Silver Circle of New England NATAS.

He currently lectures at Boston University’s College of Communications.

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Frederick Douglass Reading

The Salem Witch Trials remain a source of fascination and horror, as well as a reminder of the dangers of intolerance, fear, and mob mentality. The Salem Athenaeum, partnering with the Peabody Essex Museum, presents an evening of poetry responding to this resonant and dark era in our colonial history. Join us on Saturday, March 20, at 7:00 pm, to hear award-winning poets Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez, James R. Scrimgeour, and Cindy Veach read from their work that gives voice to the victims of this time.

 

Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez, a poet and novelist from Vilches, Chile, is the author of the novel La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas, 2016). They hold an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University and teach creative writing at Clark University. Their current documentary poetry project on the Salem Witch Trials, Salem Songs, treats the court examination as poetic form, a hybrid of legal language and lyric utterance.

 

 

James R. Scrimgeour is Professor Emeritus at Western Connecticut State University. He has published ten books of poetry and a critical biography of Sean O’Casey. His most recent book, Voices of Dogtown: Poems Arising Out of a Ghost Town Landscape (Loom Press, 2019), was listed as a “must read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

 

 

Cindy Veach is the author of Her Kind (CavanKerry Press, forthcoming) and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read.’ Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere.

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