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Gallows Hill #OpenStudios
12/6, 11-6

Ken Clark performance, 12-3.

2025 renovation added 14 studios

16 Proctor Street, #SalemMA

The history recounted here - kidnapping of Indigenous people from the northeast American colonies and selling them into slavery in the Caribbean - happened to the Sachem of the Naumkeag people whose home is now called #SalemMA

His name was Wenepoykin. Link in reply.

The hidden history of Indigenous slavery in New England and beyond | WBUR News https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/28/indigenous-slavery-new-england-bermuda

My supervisor is unimpressed with my second #Carrickmacross lace attempt. She also stole the sleeve for the new #SalemMA witch embroidery scissors when I wasn't looking.

#Caturday #lace #needlelace

A small nosy calico sits on the left side of my light tracing panel. The panel is illuminated in white and so she looks a little spooky and menacing here. In fact, she is a menace.

Nearby are my new embroidery scissors that are reproductions of a 19th century Salem witch commemorative style. They are gold with a robed witch riding a broom and a little teeny scissors part that I think is the hat that is super sharp for thread cutting.

Over to the right is my Carrickmacross lace second attempt. It's a claddagh in an oval shape. I've begun to cut part of the fabric away (one of the features of Carrickmacross) but it's still got the pattern, netting, and fabric layer sandwich in place. It's hard to see the pattern through my top fabric and the light panel helps me see where the threads go.

The rest of the table is covered with my work cutting mat and threads random other tools around.

#SalemMA this morning. The brown/black house is the House of Seven Gables. The birds are loons.

Fog hangs over Salem Harbor. Behind the fog is a sea wall. Above the sea wall are three noticeable houses. To the left is a large yellow house and a blue house with a white pillared porch. To the right, slightly obscured by trees is a dark brown/black low two-story house that is the House of Seven Gables.

Three loons in the distance swimming left to right on Salem Harbor. Sunrise is creating pale yellow features on the water. In the background is the shoreline of Marblehead with houses interspersed among trees. The background is dark and the houses are not easily discernible.

@MamaLake These are extremely old (oak?) trees that live at the Harlan Kelsey house in #SalemMA

It’s just a private house in a quiet neighborhood but Harlan Kelsey was a noted tree guy. Not mentioned in link, he was instrumental in establishing the Shenandoah National Park. https://salempl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Kelsey,_Harlan_P.

Two large trees with thick trunks and rough bark and full greenery stand in front of a large, two story 29th. century style house with large white columns.

My friend, and founder of the shoe bones collective, Frankie, is starting a five week film class this month! ✨On the north shore of MA at a queer art collective✨
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#artlessons #film #queerart #salemma #northshorema #mass #boston

No Budget Filmmaking Workshop -first-person cinema Five week class -non-narrative -experimental taught by Frankie Symonds -camp melodrama November 20- Class will learn filmmaking December 18. techniques, view historically Every Thursday significant independent films, 6-9pm and make their own movies. $50-$100 Limited spaces available sliding scale Register now by DM or email shoebonescollective@proton.me SHOE AA Bones

Over five three-hour classes, participants will explore filmmaking techniques and learn about the history of zero/low-budget independent cinema. Through screenings, class discussion, demonstrations, group exercises, and individual projects, participants will have the opportunity to immerse them- selves into creative, poetic approaches to cinematic art and underground film culture. Instructor: Frankie Symonds is an artist, film- maker, and curator who's been making films and videos for over fifteen years. Her films, primarily experimental essays, have screened at festivals across the U.S. and abroad. She is the founding member of the Shoe Bones Collective.

#BostonWeekend 27x Sat REPAIR CAFE in #SalemMA https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/115480865636543927 #Salem #Boston

Dropped off my ballot at City Hall #SalemMA and the moon was rising directly over the Bewitched statue of Elizabeth Montgomery.

A small city at night scene. Foreground: a rear view of a bronze statue of Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha from Bewitched. She's sitting side-saddle on a broom which is resting across a crescent moon. Directly above her head in the sky is a very bright full moon. Middle distance: a sidewalk and intersection. Background, multiple 19th century brick buildings on either side of a pedestrian-only street. To the right, is the four-story Daniel Low building, a historic jewelry company.

#SalemMA - #RepairCafé and #TerraCycle Collection

"Don’t throw away your broken item – bring it to the Repair Café!

#SalemRecycles will be hosting a Repair Café on Saturday, November 8 from 9am-12 noon at the Community Life Center at 401 Bridge Street.

Appointments are required and walk-ins will not be accepted. Pre-registration is required via link, stay tuned for updates or email salemrecycles@gmail.com.

Repair volunteers at this event will be available to mend clothing, sew buttons, and tinker with or rewire electronics and lamps. Please keep in mind these services may change as we confirm volunteers. We hope to see you at this fun event where you can learn how to fix things and reduce your waste!

TERRACYCLE — We’re collecting FOUR TerraCycle brigades of otherwise hard-to-recycle items. Please keep each TerraCycle stream separate.

** Swiffers: All used, dried Swiffer pads.
** Razors: All brands of reusable and disposable razors, blades & cartridges, as well as any flexible or rigid plastic packaging they come in.
** Dental Care: Non-electric toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, & floss containers. All brands, plus toothbrush packaging.
**Brita: Brita dispenser, Brita pitchers, Brita bottles, Brita standard filters, Brita Stream filters, Brita bottle filters, Brita filter packaging, Brita Longlast® filters, Brita Stream® pitchers.

IMPORTANT CHANGE: No deodorant or mouthwash bottles accepted as of January 1, 2025. Please place mouthwash bottles with cap on into curbside recycling carts."

Source:
https://greensalem.com/event/repair-cafe-terracycle-collection-6/

#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafes #GreenSalem #RepairCafesMassachusetts #RepairCafes #TerracyleDropoff #Mending #RepairReuse #RepairReuseRestore #FixIt #RightToRepair

It can be pretty nice living in #SalemMA even with all the crazy Halloween tourist crowds.

A classic New England fall scene. A tall tree with bright red and orange leaves is the focus. To the right of the tree is a large, yellow, two-story, federal style house with white trim, black shutters and four dormers in the attic roof. To the left of the colorful tree is a large, leafy green tree. Foreground is a wooden white fence with three fancy finials.

(Note: not my house. Are you kidding me. It's across the street from the city library.)

#FootpathFriday #SalemMA

A dirt path in shadow leads toward trees to the right. The sun is rising just above the trees, so it is casting everything in high contrast. Foreground is a grassy patch with some tall reedy/sedgy/shrubby things. Behind that is a small cove with gentle waves and a spit of land bounding it in the middle distance. The sky is high, blue, and cloudless except for a distant, low line of fluffy clouds very close to the horizon.

Trump attack on offshore wind puts future of Salem port project in question | GBH #SalemMA #MApoli https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-10-10/trump-attack-on-offshore-wind-puts-future-of-salem-port-project-in-question

@yelof oh yeah calm #SalemMA

the curse of the Dairy Witch is that she'll serve you the best ice cream you can possibly imagine and then immediately close down for the season

#SalemMA

#NoKings 2.0
Saturday, October 18th, 2025

#NoKingsMassachusetts
(Part 7 of 10)

#OrleansMA
#PalmerMA
#PepperellMA
#PittsfieldMA
#PlymouthMA
#ProvincetownMA
#RandolphMA
#RocklandMA
#SalemMA
#SeekonkMA

Link:
https://www.nokings.org

Map showing locations of the “No Kings 2.0” protests to be held in Massachusetts on Saturday, October 18th, 2025.

St Joseph's Church, 115 Union St, Lynn MA photographed from Buck Hill. The olive green spire is a little hard to pick out against the brown background and the tip of the spire only just rises above the land behind it.

In front of the church is the Harbor Loft Apartments, 7 Liberty Square, Lynn MA. To the left of that is a fuel storage tank, National Grid, 277-399 Blossom Street Ext, Lynn MA. To the right of the church on the horizon is a water tower, 15 Colby St, Salem MA.

This photo is a great example of the stripes of land and water that form Boston Harbor. The first strip of land below has several houses visible, inclusing several on Lorean Terrace that are in Winthrop MA. The next strip of land is part of the runway for Logan Internation Airport, East Boston MA and to the left of frame a Jet Blue airliner can be seen. Below that is Castle Island, with a view of parts of Fort Independence. While most of the fort is behind trees, the structure can be made out through the bare branches. Below that is Head Island which has what looks like a lookout tower at the tip.

#BuckHill #BlueHills #BlueHillsReservation #Boston #BostonMA #Lynn #LynnMA #Salem #SalemMA #Winthrop #WinthropMA #EastBoston #EastBostonMA #SouthBoston #SouthBostonMA #CastleIsland #FortIndependence #HeadIsland #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #LongDistanceObservations #OlympusEM5 #CanonFD #500mm

St Joseph's Church, 115 Union St, Lynn MA photographed from Buck Hill. The olive green spire is a little hard to pick out against the brown background and the tip of the spire only just rises above the land behind it.

TIL: today is the 333rd anniversary of the last hangings of the #SalemMA #witchtrials

Via: Historic Boston's discussion tonight.

2 of the panelists descent from trial victims.

https://www.eventbrite.com/x/resistance-stopping-witch-hunts-part-ii-tickets-1492347273869?

Went to this excellent exhibit of mostly Philadelphia artists at the Peabody Essex Museum this weekend. ( #SalemMA residents got in free!)

This sequence of paintings was very cool. Check the alt text for why.

#BlackMastodon (apologies for butting in on the hashtag, but I thought people would want to see this). #Painting

A portrait set on a vivid, solid red background. The subject is a Black man with a prominent afro, sunglasses, a medium-full mustache, and a serious expression. He is standing with one hand in his left front pocket and his other hand probably in his back pocket. He's wearing a very stylish V-neck short sleeve black shirt with black and white accents around the neck, arms, and waist.

The placard for this painting reads:
Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017)
J.S.B. III 1968 (oil on canvas). Barkley L. Hendricks is widely acknowledged as the father of Black postmodern portraiture. After studying at PAFA in the 1960s, he built a career around painting realistic life sized-portrais of individuals at the center of contemporary Black fashion and culture. The confident gaze of his models gives his paintings a commanding energy. His reappraisal of Black masculinity led to a foundational shift in American portraiture. Hendricks specialized in depicting his friends and neighbors from his Philadelphia community, including this portrait of fellow PAFA student and friend James Brantley.

A portrait of a Black man with a short afro and bushy mustache looking off to the right. He's wearing a black, long-sleeved shirt and is resting his hand on his stomach. The background is mottled white. The photo was shot angled from the left to minimize glare. The image is described further in the placard.

The placard for this painting reads:
James Brantley (born 1945).
Brother James, 1968 (oil on canvas).

James Brantley paints himself wrapped in a soiled American flag upon his return to Philadelphia after military service in Vietnam. In the 1970s, just as it was in the revolutionary 1770s, the city was a hotbed of radicalism, including as a center of the Black arts movement. We might compare Brantley's portrait to Charles Willson Peale's George Washington at Princeton. In both paintings, American veterans pose for their portraits, embodying different aspects of American masculinity, race, and leadership, and provoking us to consider the disparities in how the American people have welcomed veterans home from war. Brantley recalled of his own homecoming. "It was in the wee hours of the morning. It was dark. There were no receptions. There were no parades. We weren't welcomed back. We were not heroes. ... The bottom line is that we're Americans, and anything worth having is worth fighting far."

Good morning. #SalemMA

Salem harbor at dawn. A rocky beach slopes away to the left. At center is a long group of rocks with cormorants perched on top, many spreading their wings. It is in high contrast because the sunrise is casting a bright reflection in the center of the rippled water. Middle distance left is a small lighthouse. On the horizon is a wooded peninsula at right and a few barely distinguishable boats. The clouds cover is dense and dark but fades to yellow-orange in the distance.

#SalemMA showed out for our neighbor Blanca today at ICE headquarters in Burlington.

She's a disabled Honduran woman stricken by polio as a child and a valued neighbor and educator.

We were afraid she would be snatched at her 90 day check-in but instead she was permitted to stay without checking in for another year.

Shout out to State Rep. Manny Cruz who has been on top of this and walked in with her. The ecumenical community in particular has been a force.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/06/24/for-asylum-seeker-from-honduras-life-spent-day-increments/OHb6NVTjhJedOsFSGG7JfL/story.html
#MApoli

#salemma

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