Okay Salem Beer Works, Saturday, March 29th 7PM.
Any complaints?
None from me. Let me see if I can squeeze this into my hectic social calendar…
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Friday the 28th, nope sorry all full.
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Oh wait, Saturday the 29th?
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What time? Seven?
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pm, right?
Ok, I think I can make it. I’ll just tell this nice lady from the Congo that I’ll have to take a later flight to visit her to talk about that cash transfer I’m helping her out with. (You wouldn’t believe the hurdles this poor young astutely Christian widow has to jump through to get her own money out of the country! Luckily for her I came along to help. You never know who she might have found. There are people everywhere who will try to rip you off!)
Awesome.
I’ll cancel my plans with the Norwegian Bikini Team.
Or maybe I’ll invite them along. How big is your back seat again?
I always stuff the dead foreign swimsuit models in my trunk.
Oh wait, you meant something else.
Is Aesiron nervous yet?
I’ll have to check train schedules and such as I’m pretty bound by the T. I’ve been to Salem, but how far is the “Beer Works” from the T station?
Very close actually, that I remember. PM me closer to the date though, I’m not too sure how much room I’ll have in my car, and I may be able to help depending on if it’s just you or you and the hubby. (I think it’s hubby, right?)
Oh, and ignore that whole comment about sticking dead broads in trunks.
It’s on Derby Street, next to the Pirate Museum, down the block from the Wax Museum and near the old cemetary and Witch memorial (It’s also near one of the Witch museuyms, but in salwem, that tells you nothing – EVERYTHING is near a with museum). Here’s a site, which has a clickable map:
http://portsmouth.citysearch.com/profile/4696644/salem_ma/salem_beer_works.html
Yeah, at this rate, we’ll need the room for live broads.
I didn’t realize that it was so dangerous just to be female with this group…
The time works for me and my friend vouches for the wheat beer selection so Salem Beer Works it is.
We’ll also have room for an extra person and will be coming from whatever direction Danvers is in relation to Salem (north?) if anyone in that general area needs a lift. I’m going to be driving about 3,000 miles round trip on this journey so I won’t mind a few miles more.
Is the Witch Museum worth checking out? I might have to drag them there beforehand.
What’s the situation with parking? Is there any place to park in Boston, other than the $20 a day parking lots?
There are a bunch of “witch museums” in Salem. It really depends on to which one you go. Alas, the one I went to was not good. I’d really like to go to the good one though. If you’re interested in literature, there’s Nathaniel Hawthornes House of the Seven Gables, and if you like shipping there is a lot of that as well, including a home of Nathaniel Bowditch. Basically, the Boston area is full of history.
Sure it is. We go to witch museums and stuff.
Why would you want to park in Boston? Just to ride in bbs2k’s trunk?
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If you’re asking about this particular dinner, Salem is a small city/large town shortly north of Boston. I’ve never had trouble finding parking in Salem.
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Boston in general? Yah it’s expensive. In this thread I recommended that What Exit? park immediately outside of the city and just take out convenient subway system in. So if March isn’t to your liking, and you’d like to actually see the city of Boston, April might be better.
Or both! That’s what I’m doing.
(glares at LilyoftheValley)
Boston is a pain to patrk in – there aren’t enough spots in the first place, and the ones that are there are expensive. Better to park at a T lot for the subway and take the subway in.
Salem, on the other hand, has a free lot at the big rotary in town (2 hour limit, supposedly, but I’ve parked there longer) and parking garages that aren’t usurious (and they’re FREE on Sundays)
They’re variable in quality. The highest visibility one is the Witch Museum on the Salem Common, which is housed in an ex-church and will meet your expectations for hokiness ansd creepiness. They almost have their facts straight, but they’ve still committed a couple of bloopers. They have a new sectiion in the back on the History of Witchcraft which actually seems to get things right. And their bookstore, besides selling all the glitzy and touristy items, also has a good collection of very good and detailed historical documents and books.
It also has a big bronze statue of “first settler” Roger Conant out front (not part of the Museum), dressed up in a high buckled hat and robe, so all the tourists think it’s a statue of a Witch.
Well, we visit Boston almost every year, but we come for the whole day, so we generally pay for parking and don’t sweat it. For a few hours at a bar, I’m not so sure.
I am asking about parking because (obviously, I thought!) I am thinking of coming to this fest! I’m not entirely sure because it’s a 3 hour drive one way for me, and bars are really not my thing. But I do want to see everyone.
So I was asking about the parking. Ok, about the subway thing, anybody got a website?
Woo hoo!
Thank you all. I missed this earlier:
So maybe that will work.
Ok, lemme think on it - it does make for a long round-trip commute, all in one day, and while I’ve done it, it isn’t my most favorite of things.