Salem Voice Tours

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.

My parents both worked in the leather industry in Salem and met at a diner, that was in the basement of a colonial era house, where they ate lunch regularly. I was born in Salem Hospital and grew up in Hamilton and Marblehead,

I love history and movies so I integrate both into my tours. I traveled a lot in my youth so I brought home with me a new way of looking at my old New England haunts!

You can look me up on the Internet Movie Database or IMDB. I worked on the practical effects crew of "Necronomicon" and as a Production Assistant on the Walt Disney Feature Animation film "Fantasia 2000".

I have also hauled lobster traps with a friend who is a fisherman. I used to joke on the trolley that I was the only guide in Salem with an IMDB page and commercial fishing experience, and I am sure I still am. I currently work for the City of Salem in the Parking Department.

VoiceMap is a great way to tour; I hope you will try it out with me!