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Page 2 www.TheTownCommon.comFebruary 24, 2021The Town Commonwww.thetowncommon.comPublished byTown Common Media Partners161 Main St.#2 Rowley, MA. 01969(978) 948-8696FAX: (978) 948-2564The Town Common is the largestfree printed newspaper serving thecommunities of the Upper NorthShore of Mass. and Coastal NewHampshire. We welcome yourparticipation.Send your news, feature ideas,letters to the editor, organizationnotices, article submissions, announcements,and photos to us byemail, postal mail or fax:editor@towncommonmedia.com161 Main St. #2Rowley, MA. 01969FAX: (978) 948-2564The Town Common copy deadlineis 5 p.m. every Wednesday.Letters to the editor provide a usefulway of communicating concerns,issues, or suggestions to all membersof the community. 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The right is reserved to reject, omit,or edit any copy offered for publication.DIRECTORYAdvertisingAdvertise@towncommonmedia.comBrenda Ernstbrenda@towncommonmedia.comMichele Iannacomichele@towncommonmedia.comClassified AdsGregory Der Bogosiangreg@thetowncommon.comEditorialStewart Lytlestewart@towncommonmedia.comeditor@towncommonmedia.comDesignEriola Kapajlola@towncommonmedia.comBusiness Accountschris@towncommonmedia.comMarc Maravalli, B.S., R.Ph.Founder Publisher/EditorIn loving memory ofLiz Ichizawa, Reporter (1956 - 2005)Copyright 2004-2020The Town Common©All Rights ReservedCaring, Compassionate, DignifiedService when you need it most.14 Independent St., Rowley, MAwww.fsrobertsandson.comoffice@fsrobertsandson.com978-948-7763THE TOBACCO SHACKROWLEY, MAPREMIUM CIGARDS AND ACCESSORIESDateHighWe Offer:• Personalized and Traditional Funerals• Cremations • Graveside Services• Memorial Services• Advance Planning OptionsJeffrey E. 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The incorporation ofsheep grazing into the larger farmplan will give Iron Ox the chanceto bring a more holistic approachto the farm. The team at Iron Oxwants to put an emphasis on soilhealth and biodiversity to keepthe land resilient and protect thesurrounding watershed. Iron Oxplans to have their farm fullytransitioned to the former GreenMeadows site by spring 2022 withan increased CSA, continued salesto local restaurants and the openingof a farm stand. Their longtermplans will be to grow thefarm into a community hub wherepeople can come to learn moreabout agriculture, get involvedwith their food and enjoy naturetogether. Iron Ox is looking forwardto sharing this special spacewith the community.Greenbelt’s farmland programis designed not only to protectour most important agriculturalresources, but to use innovativemethods to make that protectedfarmland available and affordableto area farmers. In this instance,Greenbelt is utilizing a long-termground lease approach, whereinGreenbelt will remain the ownerof the land but Iron Ox, and subsequentfarmers, will have access tothe land under a 99-year groundlease. This approach, pioneeredin the affordable housing worldand utilized by a relative handfulof land trusts across the country,gives the farmers the confidenceand ability to invest in the landand in their business, and theycan secure financing to build outtheir operation. Year-to- year andhandshake agreements, thoughcommon with agricultural land,do not provide adequate securityfor developing and investing in abusiness.Seventeen farmers and farmRetail Village, from page 1businesses responded to Greenbelt’srequest for proposals. Acommittee of staff, board, localfarmers and community membersreviewed and ultimately selectedthe finalist.Greenbelt President KateBowditch said, “The experiencehighlighted the demand for farmlandand the variety of highlyqualified and skilled farmers andentrepreneurs who want to farmin Essex County. We will continueto work with that group ofland-seekers to match them upwith protected farmland. Thiswork is the nexus of conservation,local economic development, andfood security.”Greenbelt purchased the land– a resource-rich landscape betweenthe Ipswich River and BradleyPalmer State Park – in 2019with support from Institution forSavings and many generous donors.The vision for the propertyincludes the public reservation atVineyard Hill on the west side ofAsbury Street, paired with a workingfarm. In addition to the publicaccess already available at VineyardHill, new trails will be developedon the farm side of the property,providing additional public accessin a way that is compatible withthe farm operation.Harborlight AffordableHousing May Come to Rowleysaid. He expects HCP to proposethat it be “an anchor tenant” of thenew retail village. There would bespace in the nine parcels for otherPhoto / the town Commontenants in the retail village, he said.Affordable housing is a challengeto most cities and towns in the Commonwealth,most of which are well belowthe state standards for the amountof affordable housing required.
February 24, 2021 www.TheTownCommon.comPage 3Telling the Stories of Black Americans in Essex CountyBy Stewart Lytle, ReporterREGIONAL — Sarah Baro, believedto have been born an Africanprincess because she bore ceremonialscars on her face, designatingher as royalty, was captured by aslave trader and brought to Salem,probably in the 1850s.Baro’s life was “an amazing storyof survival,” said Dr. KabriaBaumgartner, a professor of AmericanStudies at the University ofNew Hampshire. She is a principalinvestigator on a two-personteam, funded by the National ParkService, to find stories and documentslike Baro’s that will be assembledin a guidebook on the Africanexperience in Essex County.The goal is to get North Shoremuseums, private and public collectionsto communicate betterwith one another about the documentsthey have stored, many ofthem hidden for centuries.Baro, who later used the lastname Colcher, was given to AustinDodge, a sea captain fromBeverly, in 1844 and was broughtto live in the Topsfield home ofNathanial Conant and his wifeElizabeth Dodge Conant. Sheattended the Topsfield Academyand later worked as a domestic inwhite homes in Boston and BeverlyFarms.Before she died of cancer in1882 and was interred in theConant family plot at Pine GroveCemetery, she wrote a will andkept it in a mahogany box.The volunteer-run TopsfieldHistorical Society has her box,along with a letter from CharlesDodge, a Conant descendent.Sarah’s life story is one ofBaumgartner’s favorites that sheand Dr. Elizabeth DuClos-Orsello,a Salem State Universityprofessor, found in scouring museums,historical society records,newspaper articles, birth anddeath certificates for records of Africansand African-Americans inthe county. Baumgartner said sheis fascinated with Baro’s will andis eager to see what she left as aninheritance and to whom.On March 27 from 9 to 11a.m., Essex Heritage will presenta workshop entitled The Strugglefor Liberty, Equality, and Property:Examining Resistance to ExclusionaryPolicies Against BlackPeople in Essex County. Theworkshop features Baumgartnerand Bethany Jay, an associate professorof history at Salem State.“The history of Black People’sexperiences in Essex County, includingenslavement, ‘gradualemancipation,’ and hard-foughtaccess to fundamental rights, offersa rich set of stories for our studentsto explore,” Essex Heritageannounced.“In this workshop, we will examinehow these experiences exemplifya larger history of structuralracism and prejudice, butalso perseverance and change. Inuncovering some of these stories,we will explore how and why thishistory has often been hiddenfrom view or distorted to fit morecomfortable narratives, discussingimplications for our students intoday’s world.”Baumgartner, who specializesin 19th Century African Americanhistory and literature, is theauthor of several books on theblack experience. Her first book,In Pursuit of Knowledge: BlackWomen and Educational Activismin Antebellum America examinesthe history of school desegregationin the 19th century Northeast byfocusing on the experiences ofAfrican American girls and women.Her second book explores therise of indentured servitude in theNortheast and its impact on African-Americangirls and womenduring the early national period.The two-year, $100,000 researchproject on the black experiencein Essex County “is a greatstart,” Baumgartner said.She and DuClos-Orsello havevisited 21 different museums andcollections from large ones likethe Phillips Library in Rowley andthe Andover Historical Center tosmall volunteer-run collections,such as the one in Topsfield. Butthey have only begun to unearththe stories, which are mostly hidden,Baumgartner said, because“no one really cared.”In 2021, when black lives matter,she hopes the museums andcollections will communicatemore with one another, so theycan create large and impactful exhibits.Other major collections includethe Cape Ann Museum, HistoricBeverly, the Newburyport PublicLibrary, John Greenleaf WhittierHome and Museum in Amesburyand the Amesbury Carriage Museum.The researchers are lookingmostly in the 19th and 20th century,but have found documentsthat go back to the 18th century.The grant for the project isjointly funded by the NationalPark Service and the Organizationof American Historians. It was theidea of Dr. Emily Murphy, PaulDePrey, Dr. David Goldstein andthe National Park Service staff atSalem Maritime, who recognizedthe need to expand the histories ofAfrican Americans in Essex County.Dr. Murphy, a historian andcurator at Salem Maritime andSaugus Iron Works, applied forthe grant and found the scholars.“Dr. Elizabeth DuClos-Orselloand I signed on,” Baumgartnerwrote.Completing the guidebook willallow a museum or organizationto prepare more impactful exhibitsand presentations for students andthe public on diverse topics likeslavery in the northern colonies.“That’s happening,” Baumgartnersaid excitedly.In the 18th and 19th century,a large number of black familieslived in cities and towns likeNewburyport, where there wereenough black residents to have aliterary club, named for W.E.B.Du Bois, Baumgartner said. DuBois, an educator, born in GreatBarrington, helped found theNAACP.The cities of Lynn and Lawrencehad larger numbers of blackresidents, but in the 20th century,according to census records, manyof these families left the county.Some went to Boston, while othersleft the state, apparently lookingfor better jobs.Baumgartner believes that Sarah,from princess to slave to respectedmember of a local family,is just part of a larger story of theblack presence in Essex County,whether brought here in slaveryor escaped from southern plantations.More research is needed intothe role captains, shipbuilders andinvestors in maritime commerceplayed in the illegal slave trade,she said.One exhibit Baumgartner suggestedwas on Black entrepreneurs.There are many examplesof owners of hair salons, caterers,restaurants, oyster dealers anddance studios, she said.An exhibit on black entrepreneursmight include the“heart-warming story” of AllenHinton, an ex-slave, who wasthe first in New England to sellice cream exclusively. Hinton, awaiter at the Andover TheologicalSeminary in 1877, was told by astudent that he should open an icecream business. Working from ahorse-drawn precursor to the icecream truck, he sold two flavors –vanilla and lemon.In 1901, Hinton and his wife,Mary Jane, bought at auction a4-acre farm on Hidden Road.Customers, including the studentsat Phillips Academy, flocked to thefarm. He advertised in the school’snewspaper, the Philippian, andwas popular among the students.Once when Hinton raised theprice of his ice cream a nickel, thestudents protested until he loweredthe price.After Hinton died in 1912,his children, led by his daughter,Alice, expanded the businessthrough the 1930s, adding otherflavors, including the populartutti-fruiti. She won the praise ofBooker T. Washington for her successfulbusiness skills.Black people were among theleading opponents of slavery, untilit was abolished in the Massachusettscourts in 1783. As earlyas 1774, Caesar Sarter, who hadbeen kidnapped in west Africaand enslaved for 20 years in Newburyportbefore freeing himself,published an address in the Essexand Merrimac Packet declaringthat “as Slavery is the greatest, andconsequently most to be dreaded,of all temporal calamities: So, itsopposite, Liberty, is the greatesttemporal good, with which youcan be blest.”BECKINGHAMCHIROPRACTIC OFFICE- Pain Relief forCommon Conditions- Gentle * Correcting *State of the Art25 Years of Experience978-356-3979To speak with the doctor» Covered by Most Insurance» 130 County Road, Ipswich, MA» beckinghamchiropractic@verizon.netDR. DAVID C.BECKINGHAM
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