First Church in Salem, located at 316 Essex Street in Salem, will honor the 250th anniversary of Leslie's Retreat with a special service and coffee hour on Sunday, February 23. "A Revolutionary Reckoning", the joint service led by First Church in Salem, Unitarian Universalist and Tabernacle Congregational Church will begin at 10:30am. All ages and denominations are welcome to attend!
Immediately following the service we welcome everyone to attend a special Fellowship Hour of coffee, tea, and refreshments in our historic Cleveland and Barnard Rooms.
At 12:30pm, back in the Meeting House, the choral ensemble Norumbega Harmony, will hold a free concert. The ensemble is primarily dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and performance of New England psalmody from the colonial and early American periods.
Norumbega Harmony is a choral ensemble founded in 1976 at Wellesley College by Professor Stephen Marini and dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and performance of New England psalm singing from the colonial and early American periods. It has performed at more than one-hundred twenty-five colleges, universities, libraries, and churches in the Northeast, released three recordings, and published its own collection of historical and original tunes in this tradition. This hour-long concert will bring the audience into the musical, emotive, intellectual, political, and spiritual dimensions of Revolutionary religious culture in New England.
