May 16, 2008

Crunchy Salem: Living Green And Renewable Energy Fair

 If you scratch the surface in Salem, look beyond the silly tourist cliches and the not-quite-there-yet character of a lot of gentrifying neighborhood, you’ll find a place that’s smart, artsy, vibrant and fun, and overall fairly cool.  We love Gulu Gulu and Cornerstone Books, and we just discovered the way-better-than-Newberry-Comics Harrison’s.

Punk rockers, complete with Mowhawks and wallet chains, roam the streets.  (The image  links to Salem’s local music scene — well, one of them.)

On June 14, the Chamber of Commerce will hold it’s first annual Living Green and Renewable Energy fair.  It looks like fun, but I don’t know what to expect; the whole chocolate fair was a bit of a waste of time (i.e., not enough chocolate).  Hopefully this will be better.

I’m hoping some readers will chime in with other Salem activities — free exposure for your event here, folks, and an education for me.  I keep finding cool places like Harrison’s and Feed Your Head, and people are like , “Duh.”  Sorry….I’m new here….

Oh, and you tourist types should check out  ipod tours of Salem here.