In 1983 painter and teacher Jim Mattingly submitted a proposal to paint a mural in downtown Salem. The mural was to grace the rear wall of the Elsinore Theater, then a movie theater, but with a long history of vaudeville before the movies. Mattingly’s proposal was chosen and in the summer of 1984 he went […]
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Bloomsday
Yesterday was “Bloomsday” when all over the world (but most especially in Dublin) devotees of James Joyce celebrate the master. Salem probably was never one of the hot beds of celebration historically, but when combined with the opening of Rex Amos’ show of collage, chine colle and ephemera at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, […]