After a public memorial service held March 1, 2008, at The Church on the Hill, Turner, Oregon, Norman was buried in Salem's City View Cemetery, and his tombstone reads: " Larry Norman Evangelist Without Portfolio 1947 – 2008 Bloodstained Israelite ".

SMART has connections with Salem's transit service, Canby's transit service, and TriMet.

State government is Salem's largest employer, but the city also serves as a hub for the area farming communities and is a major agricultural food processing center.

Salem's January Term provides students with an opportunity to concentrate on one subject area of particular interest.

Many of Salem's stations are licensed to one of a number of subsidiaries, organized by geographical area and media cluster as the company has acquired new stations and their previous licensees.

The Salem-Keizer area has been home to professional baseball since 1940, when the Salem Senators ( an homage to Salem's role as Oregon's capital ) were formed as a member of the Western International League ( WIL ).

Thomson was, until late 2008, the GM of Salem's Dallas area stations KWRD-FM (" The Word ") and KSKY.

Salem-Keizer Transit, branded and popularly known as Cherriots ( due to Salem's " Cherry City " sobriquet ) and more formally the Salem Area Mass Transit District, is a public agency that operates mass transit in the metropolitan area of Salem and Keizer, Oregon, United States.

The Salem Radio Network syndicates a group of religiously oriented Republican activists, including evangelical Christian Hugh Hewitt and Jewish conservatives Dennis Prager and Michael Medved ; these are mostly distributed in a 24-hour network format among Salem's own stations, and they generally earn ratings much less than their syndicated counterparts.

During the spring, summer and fall of 1973, it seemed that the Federal Government had been involved in so much subterfuge and so many covert operations that, like the bodies of the faceless wetbacks that Juan Corona was convicted of slaughtering in California, the horror would never end ... Every novel is to some extent an inadvertent psychological portrait of the novelist, and I think that the unspeakable obscenity in < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Salem's Lot has to do with my own disillusionment and consequent fear for the future.

Salem's latest two studio albums are much heavier than their former LP's.

Through the 1980s, Moriarty starred in such Larry Cohen movies as Q, The Stuff, It's Alive 3, and A Return to Salem's Lot ( much later, he appeared in Cohen's Masters of Horror episode " Pick Me Up "), as well as Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider and The Hanoi Hilton.

Salem is the largest city in Livingston County, although it is neither the county seat ( a distinction held by Smithland ) nor the largest community ( the census-designated place of Ledbetter has more than double Salem's population ).

The diversity of Salem's student population creates classes that are a rich mixture of traditional-aged college students and adult students, enhancing the learning environment.

Salem's flagship publication, CCM Magazine, has been in the Christian music industry for more than 25 years.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

One of the more respected traditional vampire works of the twentieth century is Stephen King's ' Salem's Lot, which reimagines the archetypal Dracula-type story in a modern American small town setting.

Located in the center of Salem's town square, the Washington County Courthouse is generally known as Salem's most famous and recognizable landmark.

New Salem's modern southern town lines are dictated by the former West and Middle Branches of the Swift River, which are now submerged as part of the Quabbin Reservoir.

The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town where he lived as a boy between the ages of 9 through 13 ( Jerusalem's Lot, or ' Salem's Lot for short ) in Maine to discover that the residents are all becoming vampires.

* Different names for the town and the vampire ; ' Salem's Lot is compared to " Momson " ( mentioned in the final text of the book as a Vermont town whose residents mysteriously vanished in 1923 ), and Barlow is called " Sarlinov "

Built similarly to the fictional towns of Jerusalem's Lot ( featured in the novel ' Salem's Lot ) and Derry ( featured in the novels It, Insomnia, Dreamcatcher, and 11 / 22 / 63 ), Castle Rock is a typical small New England town with many dark secrets.

Portions of the 2004 mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's novel Salem's Lot, starring Rob Lowe, was filmed in the town.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as in 2000, Hauer acted in several British and American television productions, including Inside the Third Reich ( as Albert Speer ); Escape from Sobibor ( for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor ); Fatherland ; Hostile Waters ; Merlin ; The 10th Kingdom ; Smallville ; Alias ; and ' Salem's Lot.

Salem's radio station, WSLM, broke the story across several wire services that day and reported live on various radio and TV networks.

Since then, he has appeared in several television miniseries that have been filmed in Australia, including Moby-Dick, On the Beach and Salem's Lot.

Because of New Salem's annexation of the Prescott Peninsula, a large wedge of land shifted from Hampshire County to Franklin County.

In addition to Dracula, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House ( the opening passage of which King employed as an epigraph for Part One of his novel ) and Grace Metalious ' Peyton Place are often cited as inspirations for < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Salem's Lot.

They are familiar with the author's name after coming into possession of a copy of his novel ' Salem's Lot in the Calla, and they decide to pay him a visit.

Also owning works by Hunt are New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Musée d ' Orsay in Paris, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., the Addison Gallery of American Art at Hunt's alma mater Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire, the Harvard University Art Museums, Salem's Peabody Essex Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and many others.

Lincoln served as New Salem's postmaster and later as county surveyor, all the while reading voraciously.

" I Know What You Need " from the 1976 collection Night Shift, and ' Salem's Lot also mention the tome.

King acknowledges the influence of Bram Stoker, particularly on his novel Salem's Lot, which he envisioned as a retelling of Dracula.

Salem's Lot opens with a quotation from Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and a character in Wolves of the Calla references the Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

He ’ s often remarked that ' Salem's Lot was “ Peyton Place meets Dracula .” And so it was.

The 45th Parallel ( the halfway point between the North Pole and the Equator ) passes through Salem's city limits.

Although the Willamette River flows through Salem, the North Santiam River watershed is Salem's primary drinking water source.

Salem's mean annual temperature is ; its annual precipitation is, with an average of snow included.

Jerusalem's Lot, from the novel ' Salem's Lot is referenced when the boys first listen to Gordie's Lard Ass story.

Tobe Hooper's DVD commentary for Salem's Lot reveals that Mason regularly worked contractual clauses into his later work guaranteeing Kaye bit parts in his film appearances.

Salem's Andrew Lewis Middle School was named after General Lewis.

Salem's success in holding that event led the NCAA to also move the NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship and the NCAA Division III Volleyball Championship to the Salem Civic Center and the Women's NCAA Division III Softball Championship to Moyer Field.

John Hay, private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State to Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, was born in Salem and is generally known as Salem's most prominent citizen.

Beverly's city center lies north of Salem's, and is west-southwest of Gloucester and northeast of Boston.

In 2004, Lowe starred in the TNT remake of the Stephen King miniseries Salem's Lot which was the highest rated cable program of that summer and the highest ratings TNT original programming had at the time.