Passages of the Past
Audio tour
“We come to Salem every year and this was so much new information. Really great."
“I felt closer to Salem."
Experience a more personal history of Salem from the perspectives of the people who don’t make it into the history books. From enslaved people, to indentured servants to immigrants fleeing war and looking for opportunity the Derby St. Neighborhood has been a backbone of Salem since it’s earliest days.
This tour will be featuring expanded content on the Indigenous people of Naumkeag (now Salem) in the coming weeks.
This content will be available for free on this site when it is ready.
TIPS:
The tour runs about an hour and over the course of one mile.
This tour starts and ends at the House of Seven Gables.
You can experience this tour at any time, and you may do it at your own pace.
Please download this tour to your device, it will work better and consume less battery.
Let each audio Echo end before starting the next.
Please observe all Public Safety Recommendations so we can all have a safe and healthy October. For the latest on Salem’s Covid Protection Plan please visit
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This tour was made possible by a grant from the Salem Cultural Council
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Cast and Creator Credits
Written by Kristin Harris
Sound Design by Nick Benevenia
Directed by Carly Dwyer
Music by Poor Richard’s Penny
Technical Assistant - Zahra Khan
Intern - Alex Wettengel
Arielle Yoder
(Joan Sullivan)
Broadway/National Tour: Birthday Candles (Upcoming - Roundabout), The Humans First National Tour. Off-Broadway: DOG, The Price of Thomas Scott, soot and spit. Regional: Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival: Shrew! Shaker Bridge Theatre: The Mystery of Love and Sex. The Guthrie: Concrete Orange: An American Fable. PlayMakers Repertory Company: Three Sisters, Peter and the Starcatcher, 4,000 Miles, An Enemy of the People, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Vanya and Sonia, and Masha and Spike, Love Alone, The Tempest, Metamorphoses. TV/Film: FBI: Most Wanted, Law and Order: SVU. Arielle serves as an Associate Director for DreamStreet Theatre Company, a 501c3 nonprofit for neurodiverse performers.
arielleyoder.com | dreamstreetnyc.org | @yodes91
Dev Blair
(Mariner, Sabe, Rose, Dominican Worker)
is a poet, playwright, performer, and ‘professional’ star-gazer from all over the occupied land known as the Southeast US. While a recent graduate of the Boston University School of Theatre, they embrace fluidity of form as an artistic tool in service of their primary artistic goal: to change the culture. In addition to their freelance theatre artist work, they've published digital media on queer issues as a freelance content creator (YouTube, Medium, Lenny Letter, MTV Voices), been named an Artist-in-Residence at Rosie's Place via the BU CFA Arts Lab program, and are currently releasing original music on Spotify. Boston theatre credits: GREATER GOOD (Company One Theatre/American Repertory Theatre) STRAIGHT WHITE MEN (New Repertory Theatre), THIS PLACE/DISPLACED (Artists’ Theatre of Boston), WIG OUT! (Company One Theatre/American Repertory Theatre).
Arielle Kaplan
(Goodwife Turner/Polish Grandmother/Mrs. Spencer/Caroline Emmerton)
is a Boston-area actor with over twenty years of experience in musical theatre, drama, Shakespeare, and history-based theatre. She has been working with Intramersive since its inception as an actor, collaborator, and most recently, as Princess Belinda Migdalah IV in the Magical Help Desk experience. An avid Dungeons & Dragons player, she has teamed up with several other members of Intramersive to bring to life a new Twitch show: Full John Cusack, where she plays Seraphina Shirim, the Glamour Bard (airing Mondays at 8pm EST).
Michael Barry
(Polish Worker, Herman Tyburc, John Turner I & John Turner III)
is a Boston-based actor living in Wilmington, MA. He has worked as a professional actor in and around the Boston, Greater Boston, and North Shore of Massachusetts for almost a decade. He has worked for many different theater companies, including: The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, The Firehouse Center for the Arts, Moonlight Productions, Turtle Lane Playhouse, Longwood Players, Advice to the Players, Arts After Hours, Deana’s Educational Theater, Cambridge Historical Tours, Mystery Cafe, and Voices of Hope. Just recently, he and his wonderfully talented wife, Stephanie Morey-Barry, started to their own theatre company called The Misfit Artist Company, and will be directing their first Middle and High School zoom production of Romeo and Juliet. During this COVID-19 pandemic, Michael has also been doing his own side project he calls “Quarantine Monologues”, a daily video project where he performs viewer-requested monologues ranging from movies, to television, to theater, to historical speeches. He goes live on his Facebook page every day. He also posts them to his YouTube channel: Actor Michael Barry. He hopes that his monologues bring joy and entertainment to everyone during this difficult and trying time.
