Upcoming Events
Ancestry Days Lecture: A Look at Salem Diarists with Dr. Donna Seger
While scholars have been drawing on the voluminous diary of the Reverend William Bentley for decades, it is only one of a succession of personal perspectives on Salem’s past. From the seventeenth century through the twentieth, soldiers and statesmen, artists and authors, and otherwise average men and women chronicled their… Read More
Sunday, April 23, 2023
2:00 pm
Location:Pickering House: 18 Broad Street, Salem
The Canandaigua Treaty of 1794
The Pickering Foundation was pleased to accept the gift of a wampum belt originally given to Col. Timothy Pickering in 1794 as part of the signing of a treaty between the United States and the “western” Native Americans, one of the first such treaties signed by the new United States. Read More
Sunday, March 12, 2023
4:00 pm
Location:Pickering House: 18 Broad Street, Salem
Timothy Pickering and the Essex Agricultural Society
Scientific and Learned Societies were established in America since Colonial Times. Col. Timothy Pickering was involved in the founding of agricultural Societies that remain active today. Read More
Sunday, February 12, 2023
4:00 pm
Location:Pickering House: 18 Broad Street, Salem
Linguistic Endeavors in late 18th Century Lisbon: John Pickering VI and the Academia Orthográfica Portugueza
Zoom lecture presented by Professor Rolf Kemmler of Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD). He will give a history of Academia Orthográfica Portugueza (founded in 1772), the institute where John Pickering VI, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Portuguese Court in Lisbon from 1797-1801, is likely to have had contact during his language studies. Read More
Sunday, January 15, 2023
3:00 pm
Location:Pickering House: 18 Broad Street, Salem
Pickering House Does Trails & Sails
Notable Privateers, Physicians, Philanthropists — and Colonel Tim! Read More
Monday, September 19, 2022
2:00 pm
3:00 pm
Location:Pickering House: 18 Broad Street, Salem
The Pickernik is back!
Join us for an evening concert in the garden with Eric Reardon and Amy Billings. Read More
Thursday, August 11, 2022
6:00 pm
8:00 pm
Location:Pickering House: 18 Broad Street, Salem
Special Wednesday Evening Presentation: Jim McAllister
More Than Just McIntire Sure, Salem is famous for its architectural and design genius, Samuel McIntire. But there’s a whole lot more building talent to tout within these 8 square miles! Here’s a look at some other local architects-builders— including but not limited to Charles Bulfinch, Ernest Machado, William Rantoul,… Read More
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
7:00 pm
Location:Zoom
Second Sunday Lecture: Donna Seger—The Practical Renaissance
What sort of information did people in early modern England seek? In The Practical Renaissance: Information, Culture and the Quest for Knowledge in Early Modern England, Professor Seger explores the diffusion and reception of prescriptive publications over the 16th and 17th centuries. Published in an age of dynamic religious and… Read More
Sunday, March 13, 2022
1:00 pm
Location:Zoom
Special Sunday Presentation: Pickering Letters
The Collections and Archival committee has been VERY busy during the lockdown. Wait until you hear some of what they’ve uncovered from Colonel Tim, his son John6, and more. The ancestors of this old house were quite something . . . This lecture will be presented on Zoom. Reservations are… Read More
Sunday, February 27, 2022
3:00 pm
Location:Zoom
Second Sunday Lecture: Robert Booth—Pickering and Calley vs. The Establishment, 1710
William Pickering of Salem and John Calley of Marblehead, ambitious mariners forced by an unwanted war to engage in the Newfoundland fishery in the early 1700s, became deeply (and improbably) involved in the highest-level politics of the province of Massachusetts Bay. Calley, with evidence of treason, fomented an uprising against… Read More
Sunday, January 9, 2022
1:00 pm
Location:Zoom