Welcome to
Salem Walking Tours.

 

My name is Kenneth Glover, and I want to ask you a question.  Why would you choose to schedule this one experience when there are so many other options for walking tours in Salem?

When you take this tour, you will see that I am good at what I do.  For visitors who desire to discover the true history of the areas they visit, I have established a specialty tour experience since starting Salem Walking Tours ten years ago.  I want you to leave this trip feeling confident in the knowledge you have gained, whether this is your first time to Salem or one of many.

You may choose tours based on their high ratings; you’ll find my tour there also. There are ghost and witch tours, haunted history tours with costumed guides, and then there is mine. A less commercialized, personalized tour. Will you pick a tour led by a well-known, qualified guide who is highly respected with a solid reputation among locals for providing engaging, informative tours? Do you want to hear stories spanning 400 years revealing Salem’s true history? Are you ready to sign up for this walking tour?

In an article published by The Salem Evening News, our local daily paper on January 4, 2021  “Street Names Offer Road Map To Centuries of History” an article about historian and author Jeanne Stella by staff writer, Dustin Luca.

“But there are others, too, folks like Kenneth Glover, Jim McAllister and Donna Seger, who have taken on the task of preserving the history of every street with a name and house with a story in the city.”

I look forward to meeting my guests and honoring their valuable time while visiting our historic city.  I am the plain-dressed tour guide with the broad-brimmed hat-not a costume, but this Friend’s (Quaker) plain clothing.

The 2.5 Hour Historical Walking Tour   It features captivating storytelling that takes precedence over bullets points and guest and guide interaction over scripted stops.  Salem as a community has a tapestry woven of many stories.  These stories are not limited to the Salem Witch Trials but of indigenous communities,  merchants, abolitionists and Salem’s contributions to the American Revolutionary war.     The narrative is supported with accurate and enthusiastic storytelling, time for questions and even music sung from the Bay Psalms Book, 1640.  Kenneth takes the tour through the beautiful historic McIntire District of Salem.   Ever mindful of having a tour that is assessible to persons in many ways but not limited to mobility.  If there is something I can do to make your visit to Salem better, I want to know.  I have given added description for persons with low vision and I have experience accommodating guests with hearing loss and their sign language interpreters..

The tour is closed on Wednesday and Sunday.

 I will be on hiatus from the tour, June 17th through July 10th, 2023 to travel through Ukraine.

The purpose of the visit is to stand in solidarity with Ukrainians, sojourn with friends and actively support volunteer work.                 

2 1/2 Hour Salem (History) Walking Tour

Friendly and conversational guided tour through Downtown Salem and the McIntire Historic District.

The tour gathers in front The Coven’s Cottage, 190 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts, 01970.  Tickets may be purchased on Salem Walking Tours anytime prior to the tour.

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Kenneth is licensed by the City of Salem as a tour guide.
Proud advertiser with Destination Salem. ( Salem.org)

Board member of the Friends of Broad Street Cemetery.
Memberships with the following:

The Pickering House Foundation.

Hamilton Hall Association

The House of the Seven Gables Association.

The Salem Athenaeum.

The Peabody Essex Museum

The NAACP.

Election Warden for Beverly, MA.

Kenneth is also a member of the New England Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).