There are so many people interested in Salem’s history now that it gives me hope for the future and tempers some of my anxiety about the ongoing erection of dreadful buildings downtown: as our streetscape becomes less distinct at least our distinguished heritage is appreciated! It does seem to me that there’s more interest, and more intense interest, in the past now but I suppose that has always been the case—-Salem’s history is engaging, after all, and there have been a succession of historical “ambassadors”, for lack of a better term, over the decades and even the centuries. Once I decided I wanted to learn more about Salem’s history, after I had developed all of my medieval and early modern courses, learned to teach them a few times, and been granted tenure, I looked around for some guides and found them in published chroniclers and researchers like the Reverend William Bentley and Sidney Perley, but also in friends and neighbors. There were two lovely men in particular, my Chestnut Street neighbors Babe Dube and Russell Weston, who really piqued my interest with their tales of very material Salem history, and some great postcards. I seem to recall Babe (whose real name was the spectacular Borromee) giving me a stack of old Salem postcards after I oohed and aahed over them—but they must have been Russell’s, as he had amassed quite the collection. They are both gone now so I can’t ask, but I still have the postcards: lovely numbered Essex Institute “Albertype” postcards from the teens and twenties I believe, preserving images of Salem houses (and one Marblehead mansion) in pristine condition, whether they still stand or were swept away.
November 24, 2019
Pristine Postcards
By daseger
This entry was posted on Sunday, November 24th, 2019 at 4:59 pm and tagged with Architecture, Chestnut Street, ephemera, Historic Preservation, Local History and posted in History, Salem. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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November 24th, 2019 at 10:48 pm
Thank You!
November 25th, 2019 at 12:47 am
Is that Russell that lived on Chestnut st, corner of summer street? Had a lot of laughs with those two. If that’s the Russell, he lived next door to my brother Attorney Jon Skerry.
November 25th, 2019 at 6:43 am
Yes, absolutely!