The Salem Insider

Insiders guide to food, entertainment & living in Salem Massachusetts for tourists and residents.

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Whose got a Halloween Hangover?

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Categories: halloween, photos, tourism

It’s Monday November 3rd and residents of Salem can once again walk down the streets unencumbered by vendors, tourists, tours, cops and fellow residents. It seemed like a rather tame Halloween with an estimated 100,000 people coming in to town.  More were expected due to the great weather and the holiday falling on a Friday.  [...]

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Caddys on the Common

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Categories: events, photos, summer

There was an unsubstantiated rumor going around this weekend that Salem Common was going to be the host to of a group of Classic Cadillacs. Being an antique automobile enthusiast myself, I rolled out of bed, grabbed some coffee and made my way to the Common by 9am to investigate the rumor. Thankfully the weather [...]

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Photos of the Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival

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Categories: art, business, community, events, photos, seasonal, tourism, weather, winter

Salem’s 6th Annual Salem’s So Sweet Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival went pretty much as predicted with the weather playing a major role in its outcome. This year it was warm with intermittent snow and rain. Even through the poor weather conditions we were able to grab some photos. You can blame mother nature for [...]

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Halloween night in Salem

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Categories: halloween, photos

WOW, what a night. I didn’t think this year would be that big early on in the day since things got off to a slow start. About noon I walked around and there were a few people in costume but nothing major. After school got out the streets started to pick up and performers gathered [...]

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