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Welcome to the Hawthorne in Salem Website.
This Website was funded in May of 2000 by a three-year grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and is a collaborative effort of North
Shore Community College in Danvers, Massachusetts, and three Salem, Massachusetts
museums with important Hawthorne collections: The
Peabody Essex Museum , the
House of the Seven Gables Historic Site , and the
Salem Maritime National Historic Site . Also, the sections on The Custom House
chapter of The Scarlet Letter, the architecture of the Salem Custom House, and
some parts of the Life and Times section were funded in 1999 by a one-year grant
from the Community College
Humanities Association.
Dedication
This site is dedicated to two people who helped me draft the project proposal
and without whose guidance and support I probably would never have had the energy
to re-submit the proposal when it was not funded by NEH the first year it was
submitted:
- the late Professor Joseph Flibbert from Salem
State College who offered invaluable suggestions for the project proposal
and whose work on Hawthorne is featured on this site thanks to his wife, Marilyn
Salleck,
- and my late husband, Professor Dan Popp from North Shore Community College,
who died during the first year of the project and whose editorial assistance,
encouragement and belief in me and the project were vital to the ultimate
success of the proposal.
Terri Whitney, Professor of English, North Shore Community College, and Project
Director
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