Voice tours of Salem, Massachusetts and its surrounding towns, written and read by Erik Smith, who has been a guide for the Essex Institute, Walt Disney Feature Animation, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Salem Trolley. I wrote a weekly column on local history for the Salem Gazette and was the groundskeeper at Pioneer Village for a while. I was born in Salem Hospital and grew up in Hamilton and Marblehead, both towns that were carved out of the original Town of Salem.