Upcoming Events
Sunday Lecture: Commemorating Salem 1774 and Pickering’s Plan
Charlie Newhall and Bob Erbetta What is a “well-regulated” militia? How did Salem and Timothy Pickering give it shape and point toward the Second Amendment? The story is now 250 years old! “I gladly embraced the opportunity which then presented, of applying to the service of my country… Read More
Sunday, March 3, 2024
12:30 pm
Location:Pickering House: 18 Broad Street, Salem
Ann Parson: The Birds of Dog
A special afternoon with Ann Parson, author of The House That John Built featuring a presentation about her new book, The Birds of Dog, which opens in the early days of The Boston Society of Natural History and simmers with remarkable lost stories about America’s forming sciences and its… Read More
Sunday, February 25, 2024
4:00 pm
Location:Pickering House: 18 Broad Street, Salem
Sunday Lecture: Sauntering with Henry David Thoreau and his Salem Friend, John Lewis Russell
Chris Burke Henry Thoreau and Salem’s John Lewis Russell visited and botanized together in the 1850s. Russell took two trips to Concord and roamed and boated with Thoreau in the Concord woods and on the three rivers of Concord. On September 21,1858 Thoreau came to Salem and stayed… Read More
Sunday, February 11, 2024
12:30 pm
Location:Pickering House: 18 Broad Street, Salem
Sunday Lecture: Introducing “Eastward of Good Hope”
Professor Dane Morrison, Salem State University Eastward of Good Hope began as a corrective to the long historiography of early American encounters beyond the Atlantic Ocean after the Revolution,” reports Professor Morrison. The breadth of these treatments, traditional and modern, has tended to romanticize “adventurous” travels to… Read More
Sunday, January 21, 2024
12:00 pm
Location:Pickering House: 18 Broad Street, Salem
SPECIAL 2023 LECTURE WITH CAREER AMBASSADOR THOMAS R. PICKERING
En Route to Ukraine: An Evening of Education & Inspiration Mark your calendars for Thursday, November 30, when we will be convening a very special event at Hamilton Hall beginning at 6:00 p.m. Join us as we hear Thomas Pickering provide context and… Read More
Thursday, November 30, 2023
6:00 pm
Location:Hamilton Hall: 9 Chestnut Street, Salem
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