Join Salem’s Pioneer Village  on September 10 and 11 from 10 – 4 for a celebration of Salem’s long and fascinating history with exotic spices from around the world. Spices, herbs and teas will be explored in culinary and medicinal usage. Arts, crafts, food samples, demonstrations, live music, lectures, workshops and storytelling will all be featured. Visit the Pioneer Village Salem website, http://www.pioneervillagesalem.org/, for links to direction and more information. Built in 1930 to mark the tercentennial of Massachusetts, Pioneer Village is America’s first living history museum. The village sits on three acres of land and contains various examples of colonial architecture: dugouts, wigwams, thatched roof cottages, and the Governor’s Faire House. Culinary and medicinal gardens and a blacksmith shop further interpret early 17th-century colonial life.

Pioneer Village is nestled between the woods and the ocean, a ten minute drive from downtown, in Salem’s Forest River Park. Tickets: FREE event but suggested donation of 5.00 adults, $3.00 children.