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A Century Later, Constructing a New Essex Clamming Skiff

A Century Later, Constructing a New Essex Clamming Skiff

May 17, 2019

On a recent damp morning, four students from the Northshore Education Consortium’s Topsfield Vocational Academy were busy helping construct an Essex clamming skiff at the Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum. It was probably the first time anyone had built...

Laser Show Celebrates Immigrants’ Stories; Confronts Stigma

Laser Show Celebrates Immigrants’ Stories; Confronts Stigma

May 15, 2019

As darkness settled on Salem’s Point neighborhood last Saturday night, machines began to fill the warm spring air with haze. Then the crowd of dozens of people gathered in a parking lot at 34 Peabody St. ooohed as lasers lit up the air—blue and green and red, lines...

ECCF Awards $300,000 for Arts and Culture Projects

Jul 31, 2018

Essex County Community Foundation, in partnership with the Barr Foundation, has awarded grants to 11 creative partnerships with plans to serve Essex County communities through public art and creative placemaking projects. The grants, which total $300,000 and will fund...

Arts and Culture to receive a big boost in Essex County | Press Release

Jan 30, 2018

ECCF partners with the Barr Foundation to make $750,000 investment in our Creative County Danvers, MA— Essex County Community Foundation announced today that it will spearhead the first ever comprehensive countywide effort to elevate arts and culture in our region....