In 1920, when the leaders of the church decided that Salem could offer just one service a year, and there would need to be a group responsible for preserving the church and its history, they wrote in the Articles of Incorporation that the Salem Home-Coming Association is meant “To serve as a Literary and Library Association whereby the knowledge of Literature, secular as well as religious, may be advanced, and the traditions and memory of the Salem Calvinistic Methodist Church may be preserved and perpetuated.”

In that spirit, we seek to build a digital library of photographs, sermons & speeches, performances, and historic records from the church’s past, for the posterity of Salem.