I had to giggle a bit a while back when I got lumped into Salem’s new creative class, but that got me thinking. An influx of new creative folks into Salem’s affordable, sometimes charming, often grubby Northeast city section? Is there any legitimacy to that?
There is!
I’ve always held that stuff happens in Salem — it’s just laughlingly under-the-radar. Well… something is definitely afoot in the Northeast Salem neighborhoods.
All it took was one party at my friend the poet’s house (also in NE Salem) to determine that there are a lot of us small-housers out here milking the city for its historic properties and living large on a tiny footprint. In addition to me, my sculptor of a husband and my baby Dash, a.k.a. The Next Alexander Calder, we have:
Michael Chasar, a Poet with an Penchant for Pop
Stephanie Lenox, editor of Blood Orange Review, a well-received online literary mag
William Bragg, photographer - or you might know him as a champion for the underpriveleged
Jonathan Bucci, multimedia artist, and his writer wife, Rachel Bucci
Any more you can think of? Whom have I forgotten? Whom haven’t I met yet?
As far as I know, all of the people listed here have been in Salem for five years or less. Yay for new blood — and for E.B. White quotes that can lend themselves to cities other than New York.
