Tour

Love history and agriculture? Need volunteer hours? Join the Junior Guide Program at Spencer Peirce Little Farm. This ten-session program offers credit for more than twenty hours of volunteer time and focuses on the history, operation, and care of one of the oldest farms in America. Junior Guides help care for the animals, learn about preservation, and interpret the house to visitors. Through service to Historic New England, the Junior Guides learn leadership skills, historic research and interpretation, and customer service.

See the great House of Seven Gables aglow as Nathaniel Hawthorne saw it in his time! This year, we are reintroducing Lantern Tours, and visitors can learn about New England’s Christmas traditions while viewing the rooms subtly illuminated, as they were in Hawthorne’s day. Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve excluded. Admission for Christmas & Lantern Tours is: adults $12.50, seniors 65 and older or AAA Members $11.50, children age 5-12 $7.50, children under five free, and member discount $2.00/ticket.

The House of Seven Gables welcomes you to experience Salem’s newest Christmas tradition. This December, surround yourself with the spirit of the season as Christmas scenes from famous works of literature including Little Women, A Christmas Carol, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales are brought to life for audiences in the rooms of the Turner-Ingersoll mansion.

Ipswich River Sanctuary naturalists will lead small groups as they venture out to the “Big Woods” on Averill’s Island for two hour hikes. Bring family and friends for a two-hour naturalist-pre-Thanksgiving guided walk to discover the natural and cultural history of the sanctuary. This wonderful program is appropriate for adults & families.

Autumn is here! Join us for an after school farm tour at Smolak Farms in North Andover - the perfect fall outing! Enjoy a guided narration about Smolak Farms while on a tractor drawn hayride. A knowledgeable guide will share the history of the farm as well as the different crops grown. We will stop for a chance to pick your own sugar pumpkin and then head back to visit their 150-year-old barn for a taste of their famous apple cider donuts and a cup of apple cider.

Mahi Mahi Cruises & Charters invites you to enjoy a complementary cup of delicious clam chowder as you take in the changing colors of fall. Passengers will visit out five historic lighthouses during this 14-mile harbor loop through Beverly, Manchester, Salem & Marblehead. This 1 hour 45 minute tour gets you up close to view the lighthouses from the water, and gives you a brand new perspective on the splendor of the North Shore's changing fall foliage.

PEM hosts a weekend-long festival focused on surrealism and absurdity.Step into the surreal and experiment with Surrealist techniques, experience dreamlike films and make friends with odd creatures from Big Nazo. Through art activities, demonstrations, story times, guided exhibit tours, film and interactive demonstrations, participants will walk away with a better understanding of the surrealism and its effect onb our our society. 

We've all eaten eggs from the supermarket, but what about straight from a farm? At this program, you'll learn about Appleton Farms' pasture-raised laying chickens. You'll get to see our chicken "tractor" and learn how use pasture rotation to produce our delicious, farm-fresh eggs. They're not like anything you'll find at the supermarket!

This guided tour will explore some of Groveland's 47 acres of conservation land, highlighting Veasey Park's Nesting Box Program. We will explore and compare inhabitants including bluebirds, tree swallows, purple martins, tufted tit mouse and bobolinks. This serene walk is a perfect place for observing and learning about our local birds and their natural environment. Binoculars suggested.

Join Essex County Ghost Project, NEPA Paranormal, Visions of the Paranormal, and ECTO WEB for and exciting paranormal investigation at the Historic Grey Court Park (known as the Tenney Castle Ruins). This location is one of the hottest paranormal locations in Essex County. Gary Mannely from Nightfall Paranormal will be our guest speaker