Early Tourism and the Summer Hotels of East Gloucester

A visual journey to an era of early tourism in Gloucester. Learn who came, how they traveled, and where they stayed. This one-hour presentation will take you to a world where guests vacationed, not for a week, but for a season. Take a tour around East Gloucester to see the 15 summer hotels that once dominated its shoreline and find out who they served, and their eventual fate. Understand how the land changed from one of farms and pastures to become a center of resort life. Based on actual photographs and extensive research, presenter Susan Morreale transports her audience to a lovely, luxurious, and short-lived by-gone-time.