18TH ANNUAL SALEM MARITIME FESTIVAL
SALEM – Tall ships, free tours, music and fun for the whole family. The National Park Service, Salem Maritime National Historic Site on Derby St., hosts the 18th Annual Salem Maritime Festival, Aug. 5.
Salem Maritime will fill with visiting ships on Aug. 5. The Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s chebacco boat, Lewis B. Story, will run up on Derby Beach. Other visiting ships include the sloop Providence, the lobster boat Hobbes, and the schooner Lettie G. Howard. Salem Maritime’s own tall ship, Friendship, will host free tours as she celebrates the 10th anniversary of her arrival in Salem.
Festivities actually begin at 7 p.m. on Aug. 4, when the popular Salem group Ye Mariners All performs sea chanteys and folk songs. Ye Mariners All returns to Derby Wharf the next day at 10 a.m., beginning a daylong musical program that includes Castlebay, Julie Dougherty, Michael O’Leary, The Daltons, Rum Soaked Crooks and the New Bedford Harbor Sea Chantey Chorus.
Also on Aug. 5, young visitors can fly kites courtesy of “Kites over New England,” and future captains can pilot radio controlled tugboats.
The Salem Maritime Festival is part of Salem`s Heritage Days celebration. For more information on Heritage Days, and a calendar of events, click the link at the bottom of the page.
