Danvers Historical Society forming a "Four Anniversaries Honorary Committee".

     The Society has begun to form an Honorary Committee to help lead the commemoration and celebration of four monumental anniversaries coming up for the Society.

     First, there is the 50th Anniversary this December of the Society purchasing Glen Magna Farms and saving it from demolition to make way for a housing development.  This anniversaries celebration kicks off with Designers Holiday Show House and, after the Show House, will continue through 2014 as the Society celebrates its 50 years of stewardship of Glen Magna Farms.

    In 2014, the Society will celebrate the:

    -- 100th Anniversary of the Society saving the 1754 Page House, now the Society's headquarters;  

     -- 125th Anniversary of the Society's founding; and

    -- 200th Anniversary of Salem Maritime Merchant and Millionaire, Joseph Peabody, purchasing the Ingersoll Farm and converting it one of America's earliest country estates, Glen Magna Farms. 

    State Representative Ted Speliotis is the Chair of the Honorary Four Anniversaries Committee. State Senator Joan Lovely and former Congressman Peter Torkildsen, as well as Gardner Trask, as Chair of the Danvers Board of Selectmen, and community leaders, Essex National Heritage Commission President Emeritus Tom Leonard and Salem State University President Patricia Meservey have also joined the Committee.