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2 | 01907 

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER 

TED GRANT 

A publication of Essex Media Group 

Publisher 

Edward M. Grant 

Chief Executive Officer 

Michael H. Shanahan 

Directors 

Edward L. Cahill 

John M. Gilberg 

Edward M. Grant 

Gordon R. Hall 

Monica Connell Healey 

J. Patrick Norton 

Michael H. Shanahan 

Chief Financial Officer 

William J. Kraft 

Chief Operating Officer 

James N. Wilson 

Controller 

Susan Conti 

Editor 

Thor Jourgensen 

Contributing Editor 

Courtney La Verne 

Writers 

Bill Brotherton 

Gayla Cawley 

Allysha Dunnigan 

Oksana Kotkina 

Steve Krause 

Alena Kuzub 

Jakob Menendez 

Illustration 

Sam Deeb 

Edwin G. Peralta Jr. 

Emilia Sun 

Photographers 

Olivia Falcigno 

Spenser Hasak 

Alena Kuzub 

Jakob Menendez 

Advertising Sales 

Ernie Carpenter 

Ralph Mitchell 

Patricia Whalen 

Design 

Edwin G Peralta Jr. 

Advertising Design 

Emilia Sun 

INSIDE 

4 What's up 

6 Art attack 

10 To the rescue 

12 House Money 

14 Wayne's world 

18 Stretttccch 

21 Women rule 

24 Lydia's Legacy 

30 Sea stalwarts 

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Covering 01907 

One of the – if not the – favorite parts of my job is dealing with the visual team of the Essex 

Media Group staff: the photographers and designers. 

They’re young – average age of what seems to be about 12, I swear – and talented. Ultratalented. 

And one of my favorite things to work on with them is selecting covers for our magazines. 

We’ve had some good covers on 01907, beginning with Governor and Lauren Baker and, 

along the way, Dick Jauron, Mike Lynch, Tony Conigliaro, ESPN’s Todd McShay, Tuffy Tufts 

licking a lobster, Lesley Stahl, Calvin Coolidge’s Summer White house – and a fish. 

The selection process is fun. Photographers Spenser Hasak and Jakob Menendez and 

designers Sam Deeb, Edwin Peralta, and Emilia Sun and I review the dozens of photos taken 

for the magazine and pick a winner. 

For this edition of 01907 they went for the black and white photo of Lydia Breed, who died 

in 2019 at the age of 94. I found that interesting – again, given their ages. 

And while the designers and photographers were selecting Lydia Breed for the cover, the 

other end of the EMG age spectrum – veteran writer and editor Steve Krause – was rambling 

on about a Groucho Marx song, “Lydia the Tattooed Lady,’ from the Marx Brothers movie “At 

The Circus.” 

I suspect Lydia Breed didn’t have many tats. 

In this issue of 01907, photo-journalist Menendez takes a look at the life and legacy of 

Lydia Newhall Breed, whose name recalls two of Lynn's seminal families. 

Menendez urges us to do the proverbial deep dive on the woman. Menendez writes that 

beyond her art – some of which is on display at the Lynn Museum & Historical Society – you 

need to see the beautiful world of colors and lines that Lydia Breed created in her lifetime as 

a printmaker in Swampscott. Included are landscapes, religious depictions, and expressions of 

activism, Lydia did them all with a distinct stroke that would come to define the era of art in 

Boston during the 1950s. 

Renee Covalucci, the current president of the Boston Printmakers, told Jakob: “Lydia was 

part of a movement in Boston. By the 1940s, Boston was starting to have a voice in the art 

history landscape. New York went completely abstract and Boston stayed with subject matters, 

figuration, and there was a group called the Boston Figurative expressionists. Lydia followed 

the philosophy of them pretty purely in the way she develops her prints. She abstracts them a 

little … she adds emotion, she adds tension, she adds expressive elements that make it feel like 

it sparkles. She really represents that philosophy really well.” 

Lydia was born in September 1925 into a family of dynasty status. She was a distant relative 

of Allen Breed, who helped settle Lynn after he sailed across the Atlantic in 1630. Like those 

ancestors before her, Lydia would go on to live a life of service to her communities as an active 

member of multiple organizations such as the Lynn Historical Society, Friends of Lynn Woods, 

and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn. 

Check out Jakob’s story and eye-catching shots that trace her legacy. 

Which brings me to Doneeca Thurston, the executive director of the Lynn Museum – who 

actually started at the museum as a student volunteer in 2010. 

Doneeca understands the importance of having bodies of work in the museum that anybody 

in the community can relate to, whether they grew up here or are recent transplants. She says 

her ability to bring in artists and exhibits that trace back generations – but still manage to be 

timely and relevant – is why she's at the helm of the museum. 

The museum itself was founded in 1897 to "to collect, preserve and illuminate the city's 

remarkable history" and Thurston should be proud in knowing that she has excelled in carrying 

the museum's mission into the 21st century. 

Anyway, check out Jakob’s story and the eye-catching photos – and count me as a fan of 

both Jakob and Doneeca, his tour guide. 

They helped make this edition of 01907 worth your attention. Enjoy. 

COVER Swampscott's Lydia Breed (circa 1950) left her mark in ink-and-wood block art. COURTESY PHOTO BY JAN BREED


SUMMER 2022 | 5 

WHAT'S UP 

Sundays on the Farm 

What: The summer farmer's 

market features produce stands 

and products. 

Where: Town Hall lawn, 22 

Monument Avenue. 

When: June 12, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 

on summer Sundays to follow. 

Harboring fun 

What: The Harbor Festival features 

food, kids' games, and music by 

Philip Kids and the Sea Shanties. 

Where: Fisherman's Beach off 

Humphrey Street. 

When: Saturday, June 25, 10 a.m.- 

2 p.m. 

Have a blast 

What: Independence Day 

celebrations with a beer garden, 

food, fireworks and music by 

Bordello's and the MSF Band. 

Where: Town Hall lawn, 22 

Monument Avenue. 

When: Sunday, July 3, 5-9 p.m. 

Bring some popcorn 

What: Movie night at Linscott 

Park is free - check town website 

calendar for movies scheduled 

to be shown. 

Where: Linscott Park and its 

gazebo are located between the 

Hadley School and Monument 

Avenue. 

When: Thursday, July 21, movie 

starts at 8:30 p.m. 

Hit the beach 

What: Sand, sea, and family fun — 

all without a long drive. 

Where: Fisherman's Beach off 

Humphrey Street. 

When: Saturday, August 27, 3-7 p.m. 

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Brianna 

Richardson 

encourages 

art for 

everyone 

BY ALLYSHA DUNNIGAN 

Swampscott resident Brianna 

Richardson has been an artist for as long as 

she can remember. Art is something that 

she was naturally drawn toward and has 

incorporated into her life since she was a 

kid. 

Richardson, now 30, channels her 

artistic abilities through crafts and 

printmaking. 

She graduated with her bachelor's 

degree from Salem State University (SSU) 

this past May, majoring in Art, with a 

concentration in printmaking, and a minor 

in education, because teaching art is her 

ultimate goal. 

Through her printmaking degree, 

Richardson said she learned that there 

are multiple art forms that she loves to 

do. One form is cutting a block of wood 

and carving a design on it, rolling ink on 

the wood, and pressing it onto paper so it 

makes a print. 

"That's just one form of printmaking. 

There are so many other ways but that's 

one of my favorites," Richardson said. 

After dabbling in a variety of crafts, 

Richardson said printmaking was 

something she tried but never got the 

chance to get into. She took a printmaking 

course at SSU with Professor Ben Gross, 

who she said was awesome and was the 

reason she decided to concentrate in 

printmaking. 

"It was just really fun and I enjoyed 

doing the new craft and diving into it," 

Richardson said. "When you have an 

amazing teacher guiding and supporting 

you in a new art form, it really changes 

your view of it." 

While Richardson loves printmaking 

ART, page 8 

Brianna Richardson, a printmaking 

major at Salem State University, has 

created a free little art gallery on 

campus. 

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ART, continued from page 6 

and enjoys carving, she dabbles in other art 

forms as well. She loves fiber arts, which 

she has been selling since around 2007; she 

taught herself how to crochet and crossstitch 

during the pandemic; she knows 

how to embroider; she likes working with 

fabrics to make costumes and other items; 

she has done wood carving and burning; 

and she knows how to do felting, needle, 

and rug punching. 

She taught herself how to do all of 

these, and also does book binding, paper 

making, making props and animatronics, 

and has an associate's degree in special 

effects makeup, so she has experience in 

mold making, prosthetics, and makeup. 

"I like to do a lot," Richardson said. "I 

like to make three-dimensional things and 

work with my hands." 

Richardson recently won the Studio Art 

Award and the Winfisky Award at SSU for 

her artwork. 

"One thing I love to talk to people 

about is that everyone can be an artist," 

Richardson said. "You don't have to 

draw or paint to be an artist. You can do 

scrapbooking, and that's a type of art. You 

can make little greeting cards on your 

computer and that's a piece of art. You can 

doodle on sticky notes and write your kids 

little fun notes for their lunches and that's 

all art." 

Richardson likes to make art that 

people can use, usually making art for 

gifts such as a crocheted blanket for her 

grandfather and gifts for friends. 

She does have a small business and goes 

to conventions to sell things that she sews, 

From embroidery to book binding to gallery 

curating—Brianna Richardson does it all. 

Brianna Richardson created a miniature art studio which is installed above the free little art gallery on the 

campus of Salem State University. 

including tabletop gaming accessories such 

as dice trays, dice bags, buttons, pins, and 

stickers that she and her fiancé – who is 

also an artist – design. 

"It's just so fun. The cool thing about 

art is that you don't have to be amazing 

at it for it to count for you, or to count 

for others," Richardson said. "Art can be 

anything that you want it to be. It can be 

any aesthetic and style and as long as you 

are making it, it doesn't matter why, if it's 

just because you're bored or you want to 

learn something new, just do it. There's 

nothing wrong with making it just to 

create." 

Over the past year, Richardson had 

been working to create, build, and install a 

tiny free art gallery at SSU. Similar to the 

Little Free Libraries that are filled with 

free books, this tiny free art gallery is filled 

with art. 

"It's really cool and it's really awesome," 

Richardson said. "You can leave art in there 

and you can take any art that's in there." 

This tiny free art gallery was installed 

permanently on North Campus, by the 

library and the Commons, last fall. 

Last year, Richardson heard about tiny 

free art galleries popping up in other cities, 

so she pitched this idea to faculty at SSU. 

"I thought this was a great way for 

students and faculty to stay connected 

through COVID-19 and through the 

years," Richardson said. 

When she got permission to move 

forward with the tiny free art gallery, 

Richardson built it and put it together with 

upcycled materials, and said there has been 

a steady flow of art coming in and out ever 

since. 

One of Richardson's art professors, Ken 

Reker, helped her get this tiny free library 

installed at SSU and is now helping her put 

together a proposal to have one installed in 

the city of Salem. 

"It's a great way to share your art. I've 

gotten new Instagram followers because 

of it and I've heard that other people 

appreciate and share other people's art 

and start following them too," Richardson 

said. "I really like it because there's no 

advertisement or pushing, but you can see 

that people get excited when someone 

takes their art and supports them." 

Richardson also added "junk journals" 

to the tiny free art gallery, and someone 

told her they are using the journal paper to 

make art and add it back into the gallery, 

while someone else tagged Richardson 

in an Instagram story and said they are 

using the journals to write their poems this 

summer. 

"This is what I strive for: sharing 

and encouraging others to make art," 

Richardson said. 

Now that she's graduated, Richardson 

said she is going to focus on her small 

business a little more. While she would 

love to teach in a community or public 

setting, she is putting that on the 

backburner right now so she isn't burnt out 

in a year and can start later on when she 

is ready. Richardson plans to get a regular 

nine-to-five job so she has more time to 

create and work on art that she feels like 

making. 

"There's nothing wrong with being a 

part-time artist," she said. "You are still a 

valid and good artist if you are full-time or 

part-time." 

Richardson's work can be found on 

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10 | 01907 SUMMER 2022 | 11 

Blood runs 

blue and 

yellow 

through 

his veins 

BY ALENA KUZUB 

Yakov Glauberman, 74, emigrated 

from Dnipro, Ukraine to the 

U.S. with his wife and three 

children in 1995; first to Lynn, then 

settling in Swampscott, but the distance 

from his home to his Ukraine homeland is 

only a heartbeat. 

The longtime Swampscott resident has 

raised money to send medications and 

protective gear to Ukraine as the war with 

Russia continues. 

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 

February, Glauberman has mobilized 

efforts to help the embattled nation, always 

thinking of relatives and friends in Dnipro, 

an area turned into a bloody battleground 

by Vladimir Putin's armies. 

“The main thing that Putin and his 

clique had not taken into account is that a 

whole generation was born in Ukraine in 

30 years (after the collapse of the Soviet 

Union) that is used to democracy and 

freedom of speech, including Russianspeaking 

residents of Ukraine, true patriots 

of their motherland, ready to fight to 

death,” said Glauberman. 

He hotly rejects Putin's claim that 

Russia's invasion is motivated by the need 

to purge Ukraine of Nazis. 

“I can assure you, there is no antisemitism 

in Ukraine now. Their president 

is a Jew,” said Glauberman, who is 

Jewish. “There are no Nazis as the Putin 

propaganda blares in Russia, zombifying its 

citizens.” 

With the dissolution of the Soviet 

Union in 1991, Ukraine chose its own 

path, following the laws of democracy 

and its constitution, starting with its 

first president, Leonid Kravchuk, and 

continuing with current President 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to 

Glauberman. 

In 2007, Glauberman established the 

Ukrainian-American Society for Cultural 

and Business Relations, hoping to foster 

Yakov Glauberman, Swampscott resident and president 

of Ukrainian-American Society for Cultural and Business 

Relations, is raising funds to send medications and protective 

gear to his home town of Dnipro. 

PHOTO: ALENA KUZUB 

and develop cooperation between the two 

countries. 

“Many didn’t know where Ukraine was 

and mistook it for Russia,” Glauberman 

said. “It wasn’t easy to work.” 

Over the years, he facilitated 

cooperation between American 

transportation company RailRunner and 

the Ukrainian Ministry of Transportation; 

connected Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant 

(Yuzhmash) in Dnipro with American 

partners; organized concerts in the Boston 

area, and brought L. Varpakhovsky Theater 

from Montreal to Dnipro. 

Glauberman had future plans for his 

organization, but the war prevented their 

realization. 

With almost 1 million residents before 

the Russian invasion, Dnipro is the fourthlargest 

city in Ukraine, after Kiev, Kharkiv, 

and Odessa. It is located on both banks 

of the river Dnipro in the central part of 

Ukraine. 

In Soviet times, Dnipro was called 

Dnepropetrovsk and was a big industrial 

city specializing in machine-building, 

metalworking, defense, and aerospace. 

When Russia attacked Ukraine on three 

fronts from the east, north and south, 

Dnipro became a hub for displaced 

Ukrainians and the wounded. 

The city has not escaped Russian 

airstrikes. On April 10, Russians 

completely destroyed Dnipro’s airport by 

firing rockets. 

“Putin’s special operation has been 

going on for more than a month now, 

but in reality this is a genocide of the 

Ukrainian people which consists of 

more than 100 nationalities, including 

people who speak Russian language,” said 

Glauberman. 

Glauberman’s daughter, Yelena 

Trubnikova, was visiting Dnipro when 

the war broke out. She decided to stay 

and volunteer for a local organization 

that helps get necessities to residents and 

refugees and distribute bread and other 

food items. 

Trubnikova, who worked as a medical 

assistant in San Francisco, told her father 

that she has already gotten used to the 

air-defense sirens going off all the time 

and that the bread factory still has flour to 

make bread. 

Currently, Glauberman is looking 

for ways to help his country of origin 

and the Ukrainian friends, relatives, and 

members of the Territorial Defense Forces, 

a volunteer military organization, who are 

asking for help with medications, helmets, 

or bullet-proof vests. 

He is asking anyone who has access to 

medications or local hospitals that might 

be interested in helping to contact him 

at (781)-738-5464. To donate money for 

helmets and bullet-proof vests, please 

send to Yakov Glauberman via PayPal at 

Bostondnepr2000@yahoo.com. 

Those who wish to donate food 

provisions and necessities for Dnipro’s 

residents can send money via PayPal to 

Yelena Trubnikova at Lena_dnepr@yahoo. 

com. 

“Many think that Ukraine should sign a 

peace treaty with Russia to save its people. 

But I think Russia must unconditionally 

withdraw all its troops from the whole 

territory of Ukraine, including Donbas, 

Luhansk and Crimea, and indemnify all 

Ukrainian victims and their families for 

moral, physical, and material damage,” said 

Glauberman. “I hope for real peace.” 

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Looking back with 

Wayne Terminello 

BY BILL BROTHERTON 

Wayne Terminello of Nahant is the owner of Fleetwood Media, a company that specializes in digitizing old films. 

It was the spring of 2020, and 

business was booming for Wayne 

Terminello, owner and president of 

Fleetwood Media Productions, a Lynnbased 

company that sets up audio and video 

recording at conferences and conventions 

throughout the United States. 

Nearly every week for some 25 years, the 

longtime Nahant resident had packed his 

bags, given his wife, Darleen, a goodbye kiss, 

and hopped on a plane. 

And then COVID hit. Zoom meetings 

became the way to conduct business and his 

thriving business came to a complete stop. 

“To keep my business going, I had to 

come up with another plan,” Terminello 

said. 

Fortuitously, one day his brother-in-law 

called and asked if he could convert old 

tapes of his church pastor’s weekly TV show. 

There were 700 VHS tapes in all. He said 

“you bet!” Then a friend called asking him 

to modernize her wedding video, and the 

Revere Historical Society had a basement 

full of old tapes in various formats that 

needed updating. 

“I realized from just these few calls that 

a new business direction was taking shape,” 

Terminello said. 

Throughout the pandemic, countless 

homeowners found old tapes and films in 

their attics and basements. Soon, Terminello 

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was a very busy man. 

Terminello’s small office on Blossom 

Street is packed with the high-tech 

equipment he needs to transfer old VHS 

tapes, Super8 film and slides to DVD, USB 

flash drive or other modern formats that 

can be shared online and viewed on TVs, 

phones, iPads and personal computers. 

“I enjoy doing this. And it’s fun to see 

grandparents and kids and babies all get 

together to enjoy videos that haven’t been 

seen in years. Digitizing these memories 

brings a lot of pleasure to a lot of people. 

When someone trusts me to take their 

valuable memories and bring them back to 

life, I treat them as if I was doing it for my 

own family,” said Terminello. 

Amy Faeskorn of Swampscott is one of 

many customers thrilled with Terminello’s 

work. 

“My father died in November of 2019. 

Shortly before he passed he gave me a 

cardboard box filled with Super8 reels. I 

remember watching some of them when 

we owned a projector in the late 1970s, but 

they had been collecting dust since then,” 

Faeskorn said. 

“During lockdown, when I was puttering 

around the house and tending to longneglected 

tasks, I realized there were a lot of 

family artifacts and photos that I wanted to 

curate more carefully for our children, chief 

among them those reels (48 in all, shot by 

her dad between 1972-79). 

“I happened across an ad for Wayne’s 

services in your magazine. He was incredibly 

responsive and even offered to pick up the 

reels at the house! Throughout the process 

he would email me as he finished a batch so 

I could watch them online right away. I now 

have access to all of the files online and on 

an USB stick. The quality is fantastic and it’s 

been such a pleasure to work with him. 

“My husband and children have really 

enjoyed seeing me, my brother, and my 

parents (their maternal grandparents, 

now both deceased) as we experienced 

life milestones such as birthdays, holidays, 

family trips and the like amid the backdrop 

of the 1970s. Super8 has such a magical 

quality to it. There is no audio, and the 

image is a bit rough and jiggly — not at all 

pristine like digital video — so the mood 

and feel of that time period can really be felt 

in a different way. 

Faeskorn said her 18-year-old daughter 

is pursuing filmmaking in college this fall, 

and appreciates the medium and how her 

father approached shooting the footage. 

“One day my 15-year-old son and 

I were watching one of the reels from 

November 1972. Back then my family had 

recently relocated to Marblehead from 

the Chicago area. My brother was born in 

Union Hospital in Lynn in September 1972, 

when I was a little over 2 years old. In one 

portion of the film I am on a teeter-totter 

being pushed up and down by my maternal 

grandfather in a park while nearby my 

maternal grandmother rocks my brother 

in his baby carriage. My son looked closely 

at the screen and said, ‘I know that place. 

You used to take us there when we were 

little.’ After we talked some more I realized 

that he was probably talking about Hobbs 

Playground by the Eveleth Elementary 

School. We checked on Google Earth to see 

if the house in the background of the park 

Wayne Terminello, owner of Fleetwood Media, loads a roll of Super8 film into a scanner to digitize and 

preserve it. 

was the same one we saw on the film, and 

sure enough it was!” 

For Faeskorn, those moments confirmed 

the importance of preserving family 

memories before it was too late. The Super8 

film gave her family the opportunity to slow 

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— as members of families and communities, 

but also as citizens of a country with a 

cultural history of its own. 

Concetta Carenza of Swampscott agrees 

that Terminello was a pleasure to work with. 

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other family events. 

“It's funny how technology changes day 

to day and you just throw all this stuff in a 

box and forget all the great memories you 

have had. And then you see people in the 

videos that have passed on and hear their 

voices again. It gives you chills but puts a 

great big smile on your face, knowing you 

now have the option to see and hear their 

voices again whenever you want,” she said. 

If the name of Terminello’s company 

rings a bell, it should. It’s a descendent of 

the legendary Fleetwood Studios in Revere, 

which produced beloved vinyl recordings of 

“The Impossible Dream: The Story of the 

1967 Red Sox” narrated by Ken Coleman; 

“100 Years of Baseball” narrated by Jimmy 

Stewart; and “Havlicek Stole the Ball” 

narrated by Johnny Most. 

It released albums of the World Open 

drum and bugle-corp competitions held 

for years at Manning Bowl in Lynn, plus 

albums by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston 

Pops and The Shaggs’ prized “Philosophy of 

the World.” 

“Frank Zappa called The Shaggs album 

the worst best album of all time,” Terminello 

said with a smile. 

Terminello grew up in “the projects” of 

Revere, and at age 16 started working at 

Fleetwood. After graduating from Salem 

State, he accepted a teaching position at 

Somerville High School. “I wasn’t crazy 

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Town trio stretching 

toward success 

BY GAYLA CAWLEY 

Craig and Julie Tucci have opened 

StretchLab in Swampscott in 

partnership with their long-time friend, 

John Vaccarezza. 


A 

married couple and their 

longtime friend are banking on 

the staying power of the latest 

health and wellness trend. 

The trio believes their professional 

backgrounds in the banking industry, health 

and wellness, and education provide the 

perfect combination to be successful in the 

fast-growing StretchLab franchise. 

Craig and Julie Tucci, and John 

Vaccarezza have opened an assisted stretching 

boutique on Paradise Road, and plan to open 

two more StretchLab studios, the next one 

being in North Reading. 

The California-based company was 

founded in 2015. The number of StretchLab 

studios operating in the United States has 

more than doubled from pre-pandemic 

levels, from 72 to 150, according to a CNN 

report. Another 600-plus franchises are in 

development in the U.S. and abroad, the 

same report said. 

The Tuccis said they believe in the 

benefits that assisted stretching brings to 

people of all ages. Since their soft launch in 

early April, the Andover couple said their 

clientele has run the gamut, from athletes 

looking to recover from overuse injuries or 

prepare for races, to sedentary people who 

need to increase their blood flow and range 

of motion. 

The Vinnin Square studio also attracts 

a fair amount of older clientele, who are 

dealing with muscle tension and want to 

increase their mobility, said Craig. 

Not to be confused with yoga, the 

couple said assisted stretching — which is 

performed by flexologists who undergo a 

rigorous training and certification process — 

can also serve as a supplement to a person’s 

exercise regimen. 

“We try not to label it as fitness,” said 

Craig, 45. “It certainly benefits folks that 

are active. It really benefits the whole 

population.” 

“It doesn’t take the place of yoga, but it 

helps to improve your yoga, running, strength 

training, or day-to-day tasks,” added Julie, 42. 

Julie said they were looking at different 

franchises to invest in and StretchLab caught 

their attention. According to her, the pair 

tries to stay active, and for Julie, who has 

been in the wellness industry for a long time 

and has worked as a dietician, it was about 

investing in an industry that she already had 

experience in. 

Also factoring into their decision, was 

that they had both tried and benefited from 

an assisted-stretching session in a different 

StretchLab studio. 

“Being an avid runner and practicing 

strength training and yoga myself, StretchLab 

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has helped with the recovery 

process, improving my 

performance and mobility,” 

said Julie. “The more you go, 

the more benefits you are 

going to see. As people work 

harder and get older, they 

will soon see it is the missing 

puzzle piece within their 

wellness and health routines.” 

StretchLab offers a variety 

of one-on-one personalized 

stretching services, including 

a 25-minute stretch that 

concentrates on the client’s 

current stretching needs, as 

well as a 50-minute head-totoe 

deep stretch that addresses 

all major muscle groups. 

Monthly memberships are 

available for four to eight visits 

per month, as well as drop-in 

stretches. 

The Swampscott studio 

will also offer the TRX MAPS 

machine, which StretchLab 

describes as a revolutionary 

machine that identifies 

movement inefficiencies across 

four major critical categories: 

mobility, activation, posture, 

and symmetry. The MAPS 

score is created using 3D 

technology to perform a totalbody-movement 

assessment 

scan in under 30 seconds, as 

users perform three bodyweight 

squats. 

Results are delivered 

on-screen and via email, 

which will allow StretchLab’s 

flexologists to better serve the 

needs of its diverse members, 

the company said. This creates 

a customized movement plan 

and offers a measurable way to 

see progress in flexibility. 

Given StretchLab is still 

being introduced in town, 

Craig said they are also 

offering 15-minute demo 

sessions to give people a 

chance to try out assisted 

stretching before they commit 

to a full membership. He said 

their full-body-stretching 

sessions are tailored toward 

each individual’s needs. 

According to Julie, the 

attraction to assisted stretching 

is in line with the change 

that has been seen in the 

approach to health 

and wellness. For 

the past 20 years, 

the focus has been 

about how hard 

someone can push their 

body, to achieve an optimal 

fitness level. But now people 

seek out exercise to take better 

care of themselves. 

“There’s been a change 

to health and wellness being 

about self-care,” she said. 

Vaccarezza added: “Our 

goal is to create an inviting 

atmosphere where all ages 

and body types are welcome. 

Stretching is a practice we 

all know we should do more 

often and we are here to 

support each individual’s needs 

in order for them to feel the 

best they ever have.” 

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The Nahant Women's Club (NWC) was 

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Launched in the Spring Road home 

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When the club was created, the 

"village" of Nahant was home to a 

population of 883 residents and its streets 

were reserved for horses. Very few women 

worked, instead living domestic lives and 

being financially dependent on men. 

March 8, 1895 marked the club's 

first official meeting, with attendees 

discussing the club's value in "providing 

a social and intellectual outlet for women 

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bound by lack of easy transportation 

and communication, and few, if any 

opportunities, outside of the home." The 

guest speaker that day was Julia Ward 

Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the 

Republic." 

Meetings were held twice a month, 

with one usually featuring a guest speaker 

and another dedicated to presenting 

papers on topics of interest. 

One of these guest speakers included 

Nahant resident Henry Cabot Lodge, 

who spoke in 1920 on the newly enacted 

voting rights for white women. 

Present-day members meet on the 

second Tuesday of the month from 

September through May, and also have 

occasional pop-up summer events. 

COVID-19 canceled some meetings, 

forcing others to go remote. 

During its creation, original members 

of the club spent time sewing clothing for 

French war orphans and refugees in 1918, 

sending seeds and knitted caps to England 

in 1942, and sending clothing to South 

Vietnamese children in 1968. 

In 1925, NWC established the Nahant 

Garden Club, which also still exists. This 

was known as a "sister club" which shared 

many interests, members, and some joint 

meetings with the NWC. 

With almost 130 years under its belt, 

NWC offers scholarships for local highschool 

graduates, and has partnerships 

with non-profits including Girls, Inc., 

Lynn Family & Children’s Services, 

North Shore Community College, 

Healing Abuse Working for Change in 

Salem, the Massachusetts Coalition for 

the Homeless, Montserrat College of 

Art, Raw Art Works, and Raising Teens 

Uganda (which helps keep young teen 

girls in school rather than being forced 

into early marriage by families who 

cannot afford school fees). 

The club chooses non-profits and 

agencies to donate to that are working 

in areas of interest that are similar to 

the club's, such as helping women and 

children, education and the arts. 

The scholarships they provide are for 

graduating seniors going onto higher 

education, with one scholarship for 

academic excellence and one for someone 

who is going into an arts program. When 

choosing where to donate to, members are 

invited to submit their suggestions, and 

the philanthropy committee researches 

and submits the recommendations for the 

board to then vote on, with input from the 

membership. 

In 2021, the club was renamed to 

The Nahant Woman’s Club of the North 

Shore (NWCNS) to acknowledge its 

reach beyond Nahant. 

To maintain its Nahant roots, meetings 

are normally held in Nahant. NWCNS is 

open to women from anywhere who are 

interested in helping to forward the club’s 

mission while socializing with other likeminded 

women. 

"The NWCNS looks forward to more 

opportunities to build friendships among 

women through monthly meetings and 

social events as well as working to extend 

helping hands through fundraising and 

other charitable activities," NWCNS 

member Mia Corinha said. "We have 

recently donated dozens of winter coats, 

pots, pans, toys, and several sewing 

machines and vacuum cleaners to an 

agency working with newly arrived 

Afghan refugees." 

While there are many local groups to 

join for leisure activities, Corinha said 

women join the NWCNS to make a 

positive difference in the world. The club 

has impacted the world in places beyond 

the North Shore, including Uganda. 

In 2019, the club raised money to build 

a water tower in a small Ugandan village 

to keep girls safe by providing access to 

household water closer to home in 2019. 

In August 2020, the club then sponsored 

a masked and socially-distanced outdoor 

walk to celebrate the voting rights and the 

100th anniversary of women being able 

to vote. 

The club celebrated its 125th 

anniversary in 2019 with an in-person 

gathering right before the pandemic 

restricted such events. Prior to the 

pandemic temporarily canceling inperson 

events, the club sponsored popular 

fundraisers including the annual holiday 

craft fair in Nahant, which has been 

running for 20 years and is the club's 

largest fundraiser, and a clam bake in 

August. These were both canceled in 2020, 

but were able to return in 2021. 

"It's not just a Nahant club," Corinha 

said. "It's for anyone around here. It’s for 

all of the North Shore.” 

For more information about the group 

or to join, email NWC@NahantMA. 

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pay the dues, which is $35 a year to be 

a member. The membership season goes 

from September to May. 

"We have members who have been 

in the club for many decades. Our most 

senior member joined in 1954," Corinha 

said. "That is Calantha Sears, well-known 

to most Nahanters, who turned 100 this 

past October. She was a president of the 

club for many years as well." 

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The Legacy of Lydia 

BY JAKOB MENENDEZ 

If you were to pull out your phone 

or computer and Google the name 

Lydia Breed, the first thing that 

would populate on your screen would be 

an amalgamation of photos of strange 

looking dogs. 

If you scroll a little further down the 

page, you might see an obituary describing 

a woman who was born in Lynn, but 

mainly resided in Swampscott. You might 

even learn a little bit about her life and 

legacy from the Lynn Museum’s website if 

you dug deep enough. 

But, what you won’t see, and what you 

likely may have never seen until reading 

this article, is the beautiful world of colors 

and lines that Lydia Breed created in her 

lifetime as a printmaker in Swampscott. 

Landscapes, religious depictions, 

expressions of activism, Lydia did them all 

with a distinct stroke that would come to 

define the era of art in Boston during the 

1950s. 

“Lydia was part of a movement 

in Boston. By the 1940s, Boston was 

starting to have a voice in the Art 

History landscape,” said Renee Covalucci, 

the current president of The Boston 

Printmakers. 

“New York went completely abstract 

and Boston stayed with subject matters, 

figuration, and there was a group called 

the Boston Figurative expressionists. 

Lydia followed the philosophy of them 

pretty purely in the way she develops 

her prints. She abstracts them a little … 

she adds emotion, she adds tension, she 

adds expressive elements that make it feel 

like it sparkles. She really represents that 

philosophy really well.” 

Born in September 1925, Lydia 

would enter a family of dynasty status, 

as a distant relative of Allen Breed who 

helped settle Lynn when he sailed across 

the Atlantic Ocean in 1630. Like those 

before her, Lydia would go on to live a 

life of service to her communities as an 

Lydia Breed's woodcut titled, Beethoven and 

Bruckner, circa 1964. 

PHOTO: LYNN MUSEUM



active member of multiple organizations 

such as the Lynn Historical Society, 

Friends of Lynn Woods, and the Unitarian 

Universalist Church of Greater Lynn. 

The early years of her life strolling the 

coasts of Swampscott and the woods of 

Lynn proved to be formative to the genius 

of work that would come after graduating 

from the Massachusetts College of Art 

and Design in 1947. That same year 

she would go on to become a founding 

member of the Boston Printmakers where 

she would refine her craft of printmaking 

with wood cuts. 

A trip to Japan would serve as a source 

of inspiration for beautiful landscapes of 

mountain peaks and trees that she would 

go on to create, but more importantly, 

it’s where she learned more advanced 

techniques of wood-cut printmaking. 

She would go on to bring these talents 

and skills back to the North Shore where 

she would depict contemporary scenes of 

her surroundings such as the Marblehead 

Festival, where she shows a crowd 

enamored by the sharp sounds of a guitar 

player. 

While her preliminary works tended 

to lean toward painting the scenes around 

her, her later works focused more on 

the emotion and story that can be told 

through a print. Lydia didn’t shy away 

from expressing her views on the everchanging 

society swirling around her in 

the heat of the Civil Rights Movement in 

the 50s and 60s, when she flourished as an 

artist. 

“I would consider Lydia an activist 

through her work. She definitely had 

commentary on social issues and was 

pretty progessive and she reflected that 

in her church community as well,” said 

Doneeca Thurston, executive director of 

the Lynn Museum, where 46 prints of 

Lydia’s are currently on display. 

Standing out amongst her work at the 

museum is an untitled piece, which reads: 

“Oh Lord, We’ll Join Hand in Hand, 

Hand in Hand We’ll Join, Hand in Hand 

Someday, We’ll Join Hand in Hand." The 

words are interweaved between hands that 

are trying to connect but are blocked by 

chains. 

To Thurston, “It feels very timeless, 

very relevant especially in today’s climate. I 

find that these hands are trying to join one 

another but there are these chains getting 

in the way and the question of will we ever 

Lydia Breed's color woodcut titled, Neptune, circa 

1959. 

PHOTO: LYNN MUSEUM 

be able to join hand in hand one day, will 

we ever be able to achieve that. Especially 

in light of issues of police brutality, racial 

injustice, systemic racism, the list goes on, 

but I just feel like this piece is timeless 

unfortunately.” 

Covalucci, who presides over the latest 

generation of Boston printmakers and 

helped curate the current exhibit at the 

museum, notes the emotion in Lydia’s 

work is the driving force behind what most 

modern viewers of her work discuss. 

“She was a thinker. You can’t talk about 

any of [her work] without understanding 

how deeply she felt and how much 

meaning she put in her art and that's 

why I think people come to the show and 

look at it and say ‘I feel something, I see 

something, it’s communicating to me.’” 

Covalucci also agrees with Thurston’s 

assessment of Lydia’s expression, noting 

that part of the Boston movement was to 

“be truthful, be active, show people truthful 

things, break down the common beliefs or 

universal beliefs and look more deeply in 

and see what's happening to people.” 

Toward the latter years of her career, 

Lydia put down her gouges and ceased a 

majority of her printmaking and instead 

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turned to wood sculpture carving. Her 

most notable sculpture titled “7 Days” was 

a gift to the Unitarian Universalist Church 

community which helped shape her beliefs 

and moral compass her entire life. 

The original church of the Unitarian 

Universalist Church in Lynn burnt down 

early in the month of January in 1977 and 

Lydia took it upon herself to save as much 

of the wood from the pews and other parts 

of the building and she repurposed them 

into sculpture which is still on display 

at the Unitarian Universalist Church in 

Swampscott. 

While she lived a long and fruitful 

life, dying at the age of 94 in December 

2019, her life and body of work is largely 

enigmatic to those who don’t reside in the 

01907 zip code. 

Sammia Atoui, founder of the 

MiraMar Print Lab on Humphrey Street 

was unaware of Lydia’s work before being 

introduced to her by Covalucci, despite 

Atoui using some of the very same 

techniques in her work. 

“She’s ahead of my time but not by that 

much, we were living in the same area at 

the same time even if she wasn’t working 

at that point. She’s a contemporary to all 

of us,” said Atoui. “I’m a transplant here, 

so it’s just really interesting to have this 

person who is doing amazing work right in 

your backyard and it took this for me to be 

able to see this.” 

Even though Atoui herself creates 

wood-cut and linoleum prints, she chalks 

up her lack of knowledge of Lydia’s life 

and work to the fact that her presence 

online is minimal, to put it lightly. “Living 

in the day of the internet, it feels like if 

you're not on the internet you don't exist” 

said Atoui. 

However, not all hope is lost for 

preserving Lydia’s legacy. Part of the Lynn 

Museum’s prerogative in having a wideranging 

exhibition of Lydia’s work on 

display is to help create awareness for the 

native’s incredible prints. 

On June 17th, the museum is hosting 

an event which they hope will draw a large 

swath of the residents that knew Lydia in 

an attempt to tell a more complete story of 

her life which they will then use to create a 

Wikipedia page for Lydia. 

This page, they hope, will allow 

prospective admirers to discover her 

pristine prints when they search for her, 

rather than puffy pooches. 

However,until that day, the memory 

of Lydia Breed, and the life that she left 

behind, lives on in the memories of those 

that knew her, and the intricate woodcarved 

slabs that built her legacy. 

The Lydia N. Breed: Art of a 

Community Legacy exhibition is open and 

free to the public for viewing every second 

Saturday at the Lynn Museum until 

September 17, 2022. 

Right: From left, Lydia Breed, her brother Edwin, 

her mother Aborn, and her brother James gathered 

together in 1994 for a family Thanksgiving meal. 

Bottom: A 20" x 24" woodblock print titled, 

Fisherman's Beach, created by MiraMar Print Lab 

Director Sammia Atoui, which is on sale at the Lynn 

Museum. 

PHOTO: 

TOP: JAN BREED 

BOTTOM: LYNN MUSEUM 

Top: Lydia Breed's color woodcut titled, Motif #2 

Rockport, circa 1958. 

Bottom: Holding a coffee cup in her left hand, Lydia 

Breed sketches in a notebook alongside an unknown 

woman sometime in the 1950s. 

PHOTO: 

TOP: LYNN MUSEUM 

BOTTOM: JAN BREED


A fight to survive 

BY ALENA KUZUB 

The last commercial fishermen 

in town are concerned that they 

will have to leave the harbor for 

good if it is not dredged. 

“It is really a matter of life and death. 

If we don’t have a dredged harbor we are 

not going to have the fishing harbor,” 

said Michael Gambale, president of the 

Swampscott Fishermen’s Alliance. 

Swampscott’s fishermen produced more 

than $675,000 of landing value in 2018, 

according to a Massachusetts Division of 

Marine Fisheries report published in April 

2021. 

“I would fight tooth and nail on 

dredging the harbor,” said Gambale, who 

is a lifelong Swampscott resident, a former 

town’s reserve police officer, and a hockey 

coach. 

Gambale has been fishing year round in 

Swampscott for 44 years, for lobster, cod, 

haddock, flounder, and other groundfish. 

In 2020, he fished from mid-March to 

the second week in January and said the 

shallow harbor makes it dangerous for him, 

as well as for other full-time commercial 

fishermen, to continue fishing outside of 

the summer months. 

As the Fishermen’s Alliance described 

in a letter to the Swampscott Harbor & 

Waterfront Advisory Committee on Nov. 

29, 2021, many commercial vessels are 

aground or nearly so when the wind blows 

from the west. 

During or after Nor’easters, the 

shallow water creates a critical hazard 

to the moored boats when the ground 

swell rolls through the harbor. The harbor 

shoals up year by year, made even worse by 

astronomically low tides, the letter said. 

The remaining six commercial 

fishermen in the harbor are constantly 

taking a risk of losing their boats. A lost 

boat would mean a loss of income for a 

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year or two and could completely destroy 

the business, Gambale said. 

Two out of six remaining commercial 

fishermen with significant landings only 

work here in the town from June through 

October, and use seasonal docks elsewhere 

for the rest of the year. The four other 

fishermen are on the waiting list at another 

port or are considering leaving. 

“We all have to leave soon without a 

safer harbor,” said Gambale. 

Dredging the harbor and building a 

breakwater would protect not only the 

boats but also the beach, properties, and 

roadways along Humphrey Street and 

lower Puritan Road from the vicious 

easterly swells generated during powerful 

storms. It would also make the old pier or 

the new pier more accessible and would 

attract more commercial boats to come 

back into the harbor, said Neil Rossman, 

who also holds a commercial fishing 

Michael Gambale, left, president of the Swampscott Fishermen’s Alliance, and Paul Whitten are two of the six commercial fishermen still working out of 

Swampscott's harbor. 

PHOTO: ALENA KUZUB 

license and is a member of the Fishermen’s 

Alliance, but has moved his boat out of 

Swampscott. 

“Building a new pier or refurbishing the 

old one won’t help commercial fishermen 

one bit,” said Rossman. “Don’t say you are 

doing it to help the commercial fishermen.” 

If the new pier is built primarily with 

leisure in mind, it will adversely affect 

the parking situation, which is already 

complicated, the fishermen said. 

The Fishermen’s Alliance wants to save 

commercial fishing because of its historical 

importance to Swampscott. In his book 

“Gleanings From The Sea,” which was first 

published in 1887, Joseph Warren Smith 

wrote that Swampscott used to be the main 

fish market prior to 1840, where many fish 

were brought in and as many as 50 to 100 

vehicles from Boston to Canada would line 

up to purchase seafood. 

In the 1950s-70s, Fisherman’s Beach 

was covered in drying reels for nets, boats 

being built, and dories, said Rossman. At 

the height of modern fishing, Swampscott 

harbor had about 30 full-time commercial 

fishermen. 

Swampscott is famous for its doubleended 

dories and lobster traps that were 

invented in the town, not to mention Capt. 

James Phillips, who is depicted on the 

town’s seal. 

“We have more heritage and more 

history here than probably any of the 

harbors,” said Gambale. “Fishing is a 

handed-down tradition in Swampscott.” 

Another commercial fisherman, 

Paul Whitten, said he grew up in the 

Swampscott harbor. 

“My father lobstered and tuna-fished, 

and striped-fished,” said Whitten. “There 

are pictures of my grandfather in the locker 

in the Fish House, pictures of me making 

nets and building oak lobster traps.” 

Whitten has recently bought a new 

boat and was considering relocating it to 

Beverly, which would definitely be safer, 

he said. 

But moving to another harbor has 

its own challenges. It is not easy to get a 

mooring spot as many harbors have waiting 

lists. Fishermen would have to let go of 

fishing in the Swampscott fishing grounds, 

but commercial fishing is very territorial 

and competitive, Gambale said. 

“If I move my whole operation over to 

Gloucester, I am not steaming an hour and 

a half back to Swampscott. Now I got to 

fish new grounds and make good with the 

guys in those areas,” said Whitten. 

The fishermen understand the fiscal 

issue with dredging. Replanting eelgrass 

habitat, required by the state, would 

make it expensive. But they wonder how 

much more expensive that would be than 

building a new pier that does not help 

them in any way. 

“Do you want Swampscott to maintain 

the fishing community?” is what Gambale 

would like to ask the town and the state. 

According to him, at least three to four 

fishermen would come back if the town 

makes the harbor safe. 

Gambale, 68, said that he is planning 

to fish for as long as he can, probably into 

his 80s. 

“And I will, with or without this pier 

and dredging; I’ll fish for the remainder 

of my career,” Gambale said. “I am here 

because I would like to see this harbor 

maintained the way it’s been since the 

beginning of time.” 

He would hate to throw in a towel 

because some highschool kid might be 

considering being a fisherman and wants to 

fish from Swampscott, Gambale said. 

“I would hate to see it all gone and 

that is why I am such an advocate for the 

dredging project. It is literally going to be 

the end of an era if it doesn’t get done,” 

Gambale said.



BY STEVE KRAUSE 

Swampscott 

Conservancy 

Swampscott Conservancy President Tonia Bandrowicz makes her way through the Forest River Conservation 

Area Connector in Swampscott. 


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In a town as dense as Swampscott 

has become, every bit of open space 

is precious. And that's one of the 

missions of the Swampscott Conservancy 

— a 501(c)(3) non-profit formed in 2018 

by a group of conservationists in the town. 

According to Tonia Bandrowicz, 

president of the Conservancy, there are 19 

acres out of the 3.1 square miles of land 

that remain undeveloped. That is well down 

from the less-than-600 acres that were 

undeveloped in 1970, she said. 

The Conservancy does a lot more than 

keep track of undeveloped land, though 

Bandrowicz is cognizant of the town's 

dwindling open space. It seeks to educate 

citizens on different aspects of conservation, 

and involve citizens in the science of it, 

with the help of a cell phone application 

called "Naturalist," which allows people 

to snap pictures of interesting plants or 

wildlife, and enables them to go right 

to the app to find out what they are. By 

recording and sharing these observations, 

citizens create research quality data for 

scientists working to better understand and 

protect nature. It has also hosted a number 

of presentations over the years, ranging 

from coyotes to eelgrass, and from climate 

Sunlight catches the leaves of a fern growing along 

the trail of the Forest River Conservation Area 

Connector in Swampscott. 

change to pollution at Kings Beach. 

"With respect to habitat improvement, 

we've put in a pollinator garden at Town 

Hall, a wildflower meadow at the middle 

school, and we're working on active native 

plant policies," she said. "We've done trail 

work. We opened up a trailhead one from 

behind the Swampscott cemetery that leads 

into the Forest River Conservation Area in 

Salem and created a new trail, Ridge Trail 

in the Harold King Forest, 47 acres of littleknown 

conservation land in the northwest 

corner of town." 

The Conservancy had its birth when 

Bandrowicz, a member of the Open Space 

and Recreation Plan Committee — put out 

a feeler to start a Friends of Open Space 

non-profit group, by inviting interested 

people to a meeting at Panera in Vinnin 

Square. 

"The goal was to see if we could get a 

group together to help the town in certain 

matters, and to act as an advocate and 

spokespersons for open space preservation 

in town. 

"A whole lot of people showed up," she 

said. 

In short order, the committee was 

recast as the Swampscott Conservancy and 

established as a non-profit. 

"In addition to the education and habitat 

improvement work we do, we're also a



Swampscott Conservancy President Tonia Bandrowicz said the Conservancy created a new trail in the Harold 

King Forest, 47 acres of little-known conservation land in the northwest corner of town. 

community building group," she said. "We 

like to get the community involved in our 

events. 

"We've worked closely not only with the 

town, but with Boy and Girls Scouts, the 

Unitarian Church, and other non-profits. 

We're present at the Farmer's Market with 

our annual native plant sales, which will 

be happening again this June, and held 

activities for kids, like the tidepools at the 

beach to teach them about organisms in the 

ocean." 

It's important, Bandrowicz said, for 

people to get outdoors, to "instill an 

environmental ethic in children. The mental 

and physical benefits of spending time in 

nature has been confirmed in study after 

study. 

"One study I read says that adults spend 

almost 90 percent of their time indoors, 

which isn't very healthy," she said. "One 

of the goals of our group is to tell people 

where they can go in their neighborhoods 

to get out in nature. We don't have to go 

far. I think people are starting to realize the 

importance of being outdoors." 

For Bandrowicz, there was never 

a specific moment where she decided 

environmentalism would be her life's work 

(she works full time as an attorney for the 

U.S. EPA). 

"I spent a lot of time as a kid outside 

enjoying nature," she said. "It's unfortunate 

that our kids don't get to do that now. 

I'd walk out the door and spend the day 

wandering around the woods, or along the 

beach. There is not the same freedom to 

explore the way there was before." 

Swampscott Conservancy members, from left, Suzanne Hale, Gerri Falco, Richard Simmons, Terry Dansvill, and Ryan Hale plant a micro-garden at the intersection of 

Walker and Paradise roads to help raise environmental awareness in town. 

Swampscott Conservancy member Suzanne Hale plants a dogwood tree at the intersection of Walker and Paradise roads where the group installed a micro-forest. 

The hand of the Conservancy is visible 

in many spots throughout the town, from 

planting trees and shrubs on the corner of 

Paradise and Walker Roads, to working on 

Earth Day. 

However, Bandrowicz says one of 

the group's crowning achievements was 

the creation of a new trailhead that links 

Swampscott to Salem, which opened two 

years ago, to much fanfare. 

Called the Forest River Conservation 

Area (FRCA) Connector, it begins behind 

the cemetery near the dog park, and leads 

into the extensive trail network of Salem’s 

FRCA. Covering over 97 acres, the FRCA 

encompasses tree groves, dense woodlands, a 

salt marsh, and hilltops with views. 

The Conservancy worked closely with 

Gino Cresta, the town's public works director, 

and Aidan Pulaski, of Boy Scout Troop 53, to 

create the trailhead. In addition to building 

a new wooden sign at the entrance of the 

trailhead, the DPW surfaced entry to the 

trail with gravel and cleared the area. As part 

of his Eagle Scout project, Pulaski built and 

installed an information kiosk, and cleared 

and marked the trail that leads into Salem 

and the FRCA’s 2.5 miles of trails. 

“Opening up this trail enables residents 

from both Swampscott and Salem to hike 

all the way from the dog park to Salem 

State University’s South Campus parking 

lot,” Bandrowicz said. “With COVID-19 

restricting everyone’s ability to participate in 

other types of activities outside the home, a 

walk in the woods may just be the antidote 

for shaking off some of the boredom and 

anxiety we’re all feeling. 

"The Conservancy is looking forward 

to continuing to protect and enhance 

Swampscott's natural resources for the 

benefit and enjoyment of its residents," 

she said, "and welcomes participation by 

everyone who is interested in maintaining 

and improving the public natural areas in 

town and engaging activities that increase 

public awareness and appreciation of natural 

open space."

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