On the first day of October that marked that Halloween is coming to Salem, I, my roommate, James, and friend Jacki went to go and see the parade that signifies the start of Halloween spirit in Salem. We decided earlier that day that we were going to walk to where the parade would start. When we got to the end of campus, we ran into my first year seminar teacher Nancy Schultz. So we walked with her to the parade. Jacki had her for English class so they talked about how teachers thought about first year seminars. Professor Schultz said that this is the first time the school has offered this type of first year seminar. Professor Schultz's first year seminar was very much the same as her English class. On the way there we had a route set up in my phone map app. However Professor Shultz said she knew a better way. So we followed her and it got us to where the parade started at only a few minutes before the parade began. Professor Schultz went to join the Salem State University group that was participating in the parade. We went to look for a spot to watch the parade. We found a spot on the bridge near where the parade starts. So we leaned against the bridge and waited for the parade to start. Right before it started, men with carts full of flags and other things to wave came around. They were two of them, one on each side of the bridge, with one going our way and one going the other way. Then the parade started. Almost everything in Salem had a float or was a part in the parade. Schools had marching bands and Salem State University had a trolley bus with a group marching in front of it. James counted a total of five different marching bands. We also saw youth groups, businesses, and schools. I'm sure some weren’t even from Salem though. When the Salem State University group came, we tried to find our RA, Alex, who told us that we would be walking in the parade in his costume which was a candy corn. When we thought we saw him, I started yelling his name which I don’t think he heard cause he didn’t react to it at all. However it did get a laugh out of my friends. We also saw a band playing on trailer; however, it stopped when it was a little after us. We assumed something was happening ahead that was delaying the parade. One of the guitar players got off the trailer and started walking with it. There were so many interesting cars and floats. There was a Ghostbuster car which I thought was awesome. When the parade finally passed us completely, we decide to go back to the campus and relax for the rest of the day. But I will never forget that parade. It was fun and had some great things in it. It heralded the start of an interesting month in Salem
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell had a great impact on the whole world with his invention of the telephone. Salem was a little different in the fact that a lot of what Bell did when he first started happened in Salem and had an impact on Salem itself.
Bell first came to Salem in October 1873 to live and work with his young pupil George Sanders. He called himself a teacher of the deaf. He set up a laboratory in the basement of the house of Sander’s grandmother. He began juggling commuting to Boston for daily professional duties and working on his inventions and lecturing on his research. He was known for “war whooping” and dancing in his room when he got excited over advances in his research much to the annoyance of landlords and other people he lived near.
Facts about Alexander Graham Bell
He was born March 3 1876 died August 2 1922
Got his education at University College London
Had four children Robert Bell, Elsie Bell, Edward Bell, Marian Hubbard Bell
Had a wife named Mabel Gardiner Hubbard
Facts about Alexander Graham Bell
He was born March 3 1876 died August 2 1922
Got his education at University College London
Had four children Robert Bell, Elsie Bell, Edward Bell, Marian Hubbard Bell
Had a wife named Mabel Gardiner Hubbard
He started with developing and testing what would become the telephone in his lab in Salem. He did not get anywhere with it until March 10 1876 when he accidentally made the first telephone message. He was working late in his lab on the tenth of March when he spilled acid. He called for his assistant Thomas Watson who was in another room. He said “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.” Since he was near the mouthpiece of the telephone when he said this Mr.Watson heard it through the receiver that was attached to the mouthpiece by wires and came and told Mr.Bell. They then proceeded to do a demonstration in the in Pennsylvania then they did a demonstration in Lyceum Hall on November 26 1876 in front of selected member of Essex Institution. The demonstration was done by Mr. Watson who was in Boston at the time and said through the telephone when promoted by Bell, “Mr.Watson, will you speak to the audience?” and Watson responded by saying, “Ladies and Gentleman. It gives me great pleasure to be able to address you this evening, although I am in Boston, and you in Salem!” This set off a large interest in the telephone in Salem. They asked him to do another demonstration in the Lyceum Hall due to demand from the people of Salem. This second visit earned him the first money he ever made from the telephone. The total of the money was five hundred dollars. He used this to sponsor other scientists and help with the creation of other inventions like the iron lung. But these had no direct impact on Salem nor did Salem have any more impact on what Mr.Bell did.
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