Long before black eyeliner and vampire aesthetics, Nathaniel Hawthorne was wading through the fog of America’s moral and psychological darkness as he wandered the streets of Salem. Thomas O’Brien Vallor believes that Hawthorne’s brooding prose and...
When Sam Mihara was nine years old, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Soon after, Sam and his family were forced from their San Francisco home and moved to a desolate prison camp in Wyoming. They were among 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast unjustly imprisoned...
Experience the house tour as it was described by Salem author Nathaniel Hawthorne in his 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables. An old Salem mansion that is haunted by a family curse, mysterious deaths, and ghosts of its past. As Hawthorne wrote, “Shall we...
