21 beautiful sculptures around downtown Salem! Come downtown and enjoy great promotions and chocolate samples while you view the sculptures! Pick up a festival brochure at most downtown businesses, participate in the GOLDEN TICKET contest…and much more…
Starting Saturday, February 5 at noon downtown Salem will be filled with 21 beautiful ice sculptures. The ice sculptures are outdoors and free to view. Stop in to warm up at downtown businesses, many of whom are offering free chocolate samples and discounted shopping. Go to the National Park Service Visitor Center at the corner of New Liberty and Essex Street to learn about the history of drinking chocolate. Stop by Deadhorse Beach on Feb. 6 at 11 a.m. to watch the Polar Plunge fundraiser. These are just a few of the fun opportunities in Salem this weekend.
Tickets are going fast for the Salem’s So Sweet Chocolate and Wine Tasting Event February 4 in Hamilton Hall. The event runs from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. We are expecting an even more fabulous event than last year with 22 participating businesses offering delicious chocolate samples or wine. Get your tickets for $25 now at the Salem Chamber of Commerce at 265 Essex Street. The event is expected to sell out. Participating businesses include:
62 Restaurant and Wine Bar Adriatic Restaurant & Bar Busa Wine & Spirits Cafe Polonia Cafe Valverde Caffe Graziani Capt.’s Waterfront Grill & Pub Captain Dusty’s Ice Cream Coffee Time Bake Shop Coven Dessert Bar Finz Seafood Restaurant & Grill Great Escape Restaurant Green Land Cafe Gulu-Gulu Cafe Maria’s Sweet Somethings Milk & Honey Green Grocer Pamplemousse Rockafellas Salem Waterfront Hotel Salem Wine Imports Victoria Station Ye Olde Pepper Co. The event is sponsored by the Salem Waterfront Hotel.The Salem’s So Sweet Festival Brochure is now available! This year’s festival is the most spectacular ever – with numerous events including a Polar Plunge, 21 Ice Sculptures (a new record), and the popular Chocolate and Wine Tasting Event in Hamilton Hall. Thank you to all businesses who are participating in the festival February 4 – 14, 2011.
For a complete festival brochure follow the links below:
Salem’s So Sweet Brochure Page 1
Salem’s So Sweet Brochure Page 2
Hard copies will be available closer to the start of the festival.
Congratulations to Susan Hull of Salem who was this year’s Salem’s So Sweet Golden Ticket Gift Basket winner. She won a gift basket valued at over $300 with: Salem Main Streets’ In Salem Green is the New Black tote Bag, Maria’s Sweet Somethings chocolate and gift certificate, Rouge Cosmetics- make up lesson, Rockafellas – gift card, The Pickle Pot – jewelry cleaning, Laura Lanes Skin Care – lip gloss and OPI nail polish, Witch’s Hide – handbag, Treasures Over Time – pearl bracelet, Signatures – Witch Ball and gift certificate, Thai Place – gift certificate, Bewitched in Salem – Psychic Reading, Glass and etc. – gift certificate, and the Witch Museum – fortune telling tea set.