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If you ever watch the Yankees and pay attention to uniform numbers – OK, close 

attention —you won’t find anyone wearing a single digit. They’re all retired. In fact, the 

Yankees have retired 22 numbers, including No. 8 twice (Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra). 

The Celtics have 23 retired numbers and one name (extra credit if you got “Loscy”) and 

the Montreal Canadiens 14. 

You get the point. It’s a big deal to have your number hanging in the rafters of any arena 

or stadium. 

At Holy Cross, which once had a storied men’s basketball program, there are only six 

numbers enshrined. You may have heard of two of them: Bob Cousy and Tom Heinsohn, 

whose jerseys can also be found in the Garden. 

The Holy Cross women’s program has been pretty solid for 40 years; in 1985, before 

anyone heard of UConn, the Crusaders became the first New England women’s team to 

make the NCAA Div. 1 tournament. 

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and one of the best to ever play in 01940 will have her No. 4 hanging at the Hart Center. 

Her name is Lauren Maney George, Lynnfield High Class of 1992, Holy Cross Class of 

1996. Those who have followed the Pioneers will tell you she is arguably the best player ever 

to put on a Lynnfield uniform. She was even better at Holy Cross, scoring 1,721 points and 

twice being named Patriot League Player of the Year. 

As a senior she was the league Scholar-Athlete of the Year, which came as no surprise 

to the folks at Moynihan Lumber, who named her the inaugural North Shore Female 

Student-Athlete of the Year in 1992. The male winner, Teddy Bettencourt, also played hoop 

at HC and is the popular mayor of Peabody. 

In September, George received a call from Holy Cross athletic director Kit Hughes, 

who told her she would be one of the five women’s basketball players to have their number 

retired. The ceremony will be on Jan. 28. 

Typical of George, her first reaction, as told to Joey Barrett for a story in this edition of 

01940, was that receiving the honor was “something that immediately made me think of 

my teammates.” 

A selfless team player is how they remember her in Lynnfield, the rare roll-up-hersleeves 

star. It’s clear that nothing has changed. She showed that four years ago when she 

and other Lynnfield parents were frozen out of the leadership of the youth football program 

in example No. 992,137 of how parents can ruin youth sports. George and other parents 

solved the problem, starting their own league, and she was named Lynnfield’s Person of the 

Year by Essex Media Group. 

The hometown-kid-makes-good story never gets old, especially when a generational 

talent returns to her hometown to make a positive impact on future generations. 

Take a bow, Lauren Maney George. You’ve earned it. Hey, I'm a BC guy and even I 

acknowledge this is a big deal. 

Also profiled in this edition of 01940, Clayton Marengi and Ella Gizmunt, too, have 

made their marks in their sports. Coaching helped make Marengi a leader on the football 

field, but he insists spending time with his Endicott College teammates is the key to his 

success. And Gizmunt is a grand killer on the volleyball team – literally. She recorded her 

1,000th kill last month. 

Check out Essex Media Group Sports Editor Barrett’s stories. 

There’s plenty more to read in this edition, so I’ll stop so you can begin. 

COVER It's 1000 career kills and counting for Ella Gizmunt. PHOTO BY Spenser Hasak 

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Soaring and scoring 

BY JOEY BARRETT 

Clayton Marengi fell 

in love with football in 

second grade. Following 

in his brother’s footsteps, 

and wanting to become a 

part of a tight-knit culture, 

the former Lynnfield 

Pioneer couldn’t have 

imagined what was in 

store for him. 

The 195 pound, 6’3” 

quarterback now wears 

the blue and green of 

Endicott College. This 

season, he’s thrown for 

922 yards and six touchdowns 

in just six games 

– also adding five rushing 

touchdowns. 

But it was Lynnfield 

High where Marengi 

grew as a football player. 

Like most wide-eyed 

freshmen, he didn’t know 

many people and admits 

his confidence wasn’t 

where it is today. His 

approach was just to be a 

high school student-athlete, 

and stresses that a 

particular comfort level 

comes with time. 

“As the years go on, you 

become more and more 

comfortable with yourself, 

more confident. For me 

at least, it affects the way 

I play and how I am as a 

person,” Marengi said. 

After he put the 

graduation cap on, it 

was time for college ball. 

He wound up just a few 

towns over in Beverly, 

suiting up for Endicott. 

Three years after his decision, 

he sighted the team’s 

contagious, 

MARENGI, continued on page 8 

Clayton Marengi leaps 

over the opposition at 

Hempstead Stadium in 

Beverly. 

PHOTO: DEMETRIUS KAZANAS

Clayton Marengi has thrown 

for 900-plus yards for the 

Endicott Gulls. 

MARENGI, continued from page 6 

uplifting culture as the reason why he 

loves sporting the Gull logo. 

“I feel like the coaching staff has created 

an amazing culture for us, and I’m not 

just saying that to pat them on the back, 

or sound cliche, but I’m just saying that 

the proof of our culture is on the field – 

and I think it speaks for itself,” Marengi 

said. “Endicott, I feel like, was the perfect 

spot for me, and I’m so glad I chose this.” 

His favorite part about football, however, 

are the off-the-field moments he 

can cherish with his teammates. 

“I think it’s very, very important in 

the game of football, or just any game in 

general, to spend time with your teammates 

off the field,” Marengi said. “It 

builds so many bonds.” 

Outside of Hempstead Stadium, 

PHOTO: CHRIS LYONS 

Marengi is a business management major. 

He’s interned with Impact Sports Lab 

and has taken courses from the likes of 

marketing, business analytics, and finance 

– or, what Marengi refers to as “all that 

good stuff.” 

This season, Endicott’s football team 

was ranked for the first time in program 

history. A big reason for that: the kid 

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BY RYAN VERMETTE 

PHOTOS BY SPENSER HASAK 

The Lynnfield Pioneers had just 

tied the second set at 4 against North 

Reading at Lynnfield High Oct. 11 

when coaches, players, and fans erupted 

as they cheered and clapped for Ella 

Gizmunt. 

The senior had just recorded her 

1,000th kill as a four-year member of 

the Lynnfield volleyball team. 

When she reached the milestone, 

Head Coach Brent Ashley called a 

timeout to stop the game – the 

achievement was announced in front 

of the roaring home crowd. Gizmunt 

entered the contest against North 

Reading six kills away from the mark 

and her teammates, as well as the home 

crowd, were anxiously waiting for the 

moment to happen. 

“She is the type of athlete you get 

once in a lifetime,” Ashley said. “I don’t 

know what I'm going to do without 

her, to be honest. I got to see her as a 

freshman and I put her on the varsity 

team as a freshman – and I got to see 

her grow up. She was this quiet, shy, 

reserved freshman, and she's grown up 

measurably.” 

Fittingly, Gizmunt recorded both the 

first and last points of the match and 

started the first set with four kills right 

off the bat. A countdown to Gizmunt’s 

historic mark was taped to the gym 

wall with papers that were marked with 

the number of kills she had remaining 

– each one 

being torn off as she got closer. 

Gizmunt got another kill in the first 

set to get within one of the milestone. 

Ironically, the senior unintentionally 

kept herself from accomplishing the 

feat due to her stellar serving towards 

the end of the set. She aced North 

Reading five times in a row to put her 

team up 23-14. 

A few points later, Lynnfield won 

the set 25-16 and Gizmunt had to wait 

until the second set to get the kill. Gizmunt 

noted that while she was aware of 

how close she was to the milestone, she 

was more concerned with being a team 

player. 

“I knew I only had six to go, it was 

like any other game,” she said. “We’re 

here to win it, we’re here to work as a 

team. There’s always pressure around 

that stuff, but the goal is always to win 

and play our best. Iit wasn’t really about 

me, it was about the team.” 

While Gizmunt says it was all about 

the team, her teammates couldn’t have 

been happier for her – none more so 

than fellow senior Celia Carbone, who 

assisted Gizmunt on the kill. 

“I was so happy, I turned around and 

I screamed. I’m just so proud of her,” 

said Carbone. “That’s really cool, that’s 

not an everyday thing you see and 

being able to be a part of that moment 

was really special to me because I'm in 

the presence of such a great athlete.” 

Carbone was right when she said the 

accomplishment is a rarity. Gizmunt is 

the fifth player in Massachusetts high 

school history, and first at Lynnfield 

High, to reach the mark. She is also the 

only active player in the state who has 

1000, continued on page 14 

Lynnfield's Ella Gizmunt 

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over the net.


Lynnfield's Ella Gizmunt 

celebrates with her 

teammates after 

scoring her 1,000th kill. 

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high school volleyball history to score 1000 kills. 

1000, continued from page 10 

over 1,000 kills in her career. 

Gizmunt wasn’t anticipating 

being close enough to get 

to 1,000 for this game until 

her eye-popping performance 

against Masconomet last 

Friday where she recorded 

31 kills. That game-breaking 

total got her down to just six 

kills to go, and after the Masconomet 

game, she knew it 

was within reach. 

“He (Coach Ashley) 

mentioned it to me a couple 

weeks ago that I was pretty 

close,” Gizmunt said. I 

didn’t think that I would be 

hitting it at a home game just 

because last week I still had 

around 40 to go, but in our 

five-set match against Masco, 

I had 31, so, it kind of set me 

up.” 

After reaching the milestone, 

Gizmunt added another 

six kills to bring her total 

to 12. As if that feat wasn’t 

enough for the star senior, 

she also collected 10 aces to 

go along with 10 digs to help 

her team beat North Reading 

in straight set scores of 25- 

16, 25-21, and 25-14. 

The win completed a 

season sweep against the 

Hornets. Grace Davie had a 

solid performance with nine 

kills, seven aces, and three 

blocks. Celia Carbone had a 

big day in the assists column 

with 18, and also had six digs 

on the defensive side. 

While she is happy that 

she reached such an amazing 

milestone, Gizmunt is ready 

to move on and keep playing 

with the focus and energy 

that she and the team have 

been playing with all year. 

“We’re a different team 

now. We’ve grown so much. 

Working on new things, 

spreading people around. I 

think we’re going to do really 

well coming up,” Gizmunt 

said. 

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The road to freedom from the enslaved South crossed the 

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BY CHARLIE MCKENNA 

PHOTOS BY JOYCE CUCCHIARA 

As a child, Lynnfield Historical Commission 

Chair Kirk Mansfield heard the 

rumors: A cluster of properties along 

Main Street had underground tunnels and 

hidden rooms. 

The properties were said to be linked 

to a network of safe houses that served as 

"stations" on the Underground Railroad 

providing a way to freedom for people of 

color enslaved in the Civil War-era South. 

“I grew up in this town and I heard 

different stories about a section of home 

along Main Street, right off route 128 that 

were believed to have had hidden rooms 

and underground tunnels and things like 

that, but nobody's really ever been able to 

prove it to the best of my knowledge,” said 

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Lynnfield's connection to the Underground 

Railroad "were never confirmed," 

said the town's preeminent historian. 

But residents in a home over the Peabody-Lynnfield 

line said their property 

has confirmed connections to the freedom 

highway. 

Steve Pelletrino and his wife have long 

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sale, the Pelletrinos, who had six children, 

knew that they had to jump at the chance 

to inhabit a home with so much history. 

When the Pelletrinos began researching 

the home, they realized that not only was 

the spacious property the perfect place to 

raise their big family but it also had many 

layers of history. 

Built in 1846, the home, constructed 

from red oak and maple trees on the 

property, was used as a hideout for slaves 

on the Underground Railroad. Slaves were 

hidden in secret rooms in the home’s attic, 

which Pelletrino explains is the size of a 

“big apartment.” 

“There were two bedrooms and then they 

were two smaller rooms. One was used as a 

kitchen and one was almost like a storage 

area and if you go into that one it was 

going along the eave of the house. If you 

go into that one … there was a panel that 

was on top, it looked like just the regular 

wall. But if you pulled it out, there was the 

hidden room and it was big enough for a 

couple of people to be sleeping in there,” 

said Pelletrino. “When we were buying 

the house, the real estate agent said when 

they first opened that up, there was a straw 

mattress in there.” 

Pelletrino and his family owned the 

home for more than two decades, beginning 

in 1998. He and his wife sold the 

historic residence in 2020 after all of their 

kids had grown up and left, leaving the 

couple with a need to downsize. 

Pelletrino said living in a home possessing 

an intricate history is a rich experience. 

At one time, one could walk from the 

home to the cemetery down the street 

without ever going above ground, courtesy 

of a number of underground tunnels. 

As Pelletrino tells it, the tunnels were 

sealed by police in the 1970s in an effort to 

quell juvenile delinquency. 

“Our house there was a driveway next 

to it from another house that our tunnel 

connected up to so the tunnel from there to 

the cemetery was blocked off because kids 

were getting in there and they’d go up in 

the crypts, and be smoking and drinking so 

the police decided for safety purposes they 

better just close down the tunnel so they 

filled them all in but there was in the basement 

… one small room that was a root 

cellar,” says Pelletrino. “You had a dirt floor 

and in the corner of that there was this 

built in Cabinet and the walls were granite 

stones. So if you look at the cabinet, a great 

amount of care was taken into taking wood 

and cutting it to the contour of the granite 

so there would be no openings behind the 

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KING, continued from page 1 7 

cabinet.” 

“That's where I'm pretty positive that 

the tunnels were,” he continues, though he 

notes that he never opened the cabinet for 

fear of potentially allowing animals into the 

home. “I figured well, I don't want to touch 

Pandora's Box, so I just left that alone.” 

The origins of the home’s role as a 

location on the Underground Railroad are 

unclear, as Pelletrino says he isn’t sure how 

exactly the Kings, who were wealthy hog 

farmers, came to harbor escaped slaves. But, 

he theorizes, they certainly had the means 

and the connections to do so. 

“I'm assuming they were more sympathetic 

to what was going on plus they lived 

in in the North so there were a lot more 

people that were sympathetic to what was 

going on and the plight of the slaves who 

were trying to run away and make a life for 

themselves and they had the wealth to do 

it,” Pelletrino explains. “They had obviously 

the house, which was a good hiding place 

for them, also they had a lot of connections. 

All those added up would probably make it 

so that they could do something like that.” 

Pelletrino says that as fans of history, he 

and his wife never considered undertaking a 



A modern kitchen in a historic house: The 

King Estate was a stop on the Underground 

Railroad. 

massive renovation of the property, preferring 

instead to make minor improvements 

over the decades. He explains that many of 

the historical quirks of the home were what 

drew him to it in the first place. 

“There was a big room that was used as 

a dining room. There was a button on the 

floor, that if you pressed down on it, there 

was a bell that rang up in the attic where 

the servants were. They were eating along 

the table so if they wanted something 

from the servants they just stepped on 

the button and down the servants came,” 

Pelletrino says. “They had a big pantry and 

it was floor-to-ceiling cabinets that were all 

made from red oak trees that were on the 

land itself and also next to the pantry was 

a washroom, which had three limestones 

sinks. 

“A lot of that stuff. Did we need it? 

Should we have gotten rid of it? No we 

couldn't do that because it just showed the 

flavor of the house and you go into a house 

like that you're not saying to yourself ‘well, 

I'm the owner.’ You say to yourself, ‘well, I'm 

the caretaker for now. The house is gonna 

outlive me.’ So you're trying to take care 

of it. You're trying to do your upgrades but 

you're extra sensitive towards the history of 

the house,” Pelletrino explains. 

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What's in 

a name? 

Just ask 

Alma 

Barozzi 

BY SYLVIA CHEN 

PHOTOS BY LIBBY O'NEILL 

Alma Barozzi had a map over her 

bed, it was her toy of choice. Barozzi 

had a strong interest in the world and 

love of geography. 

Barozzi is the author of the book 

What kind of name is that? The book 

is an atlas of European Surnames, 

including the roots and traditions of 

surnames. However, Barozzi doesn’t 

consider herself as a writer, she would 

think of herself more as a researcher. 

“When I look back, my whole life 

kind of led me to this (study of surnames) 

because as I was growing up, I 

was always interested in other cultures," 

said Barozzi. 

Barozzi’s journey through surnames 

begins in southern Europe with Italy 

and moves through Western Europe, 

then from the British Isles eastward 

through Scandinavia, the Baltic States, 

and finally southward through Eastern 

Europe and the Balkan Peninsula. 

It begins and ends on the shores of 

the Mediterranean, making stops in 

countries whose peoples speak a variety 

of mostly Indo-European languages 

(Romance, Germanic, Slavic, Greek) 

sprinkled with several non-Indo-European 

tongues. She plans to follow up 

with books about surnames in other 

parts of the world. 

It should be a destiny to write 

the book, since Barozzi was always 

interested in linguistics. She was born 

in Romania, a country in Europe, and 

immigrated to the United States when 

she was 14. Barozzi was originally an 

Italian name from the area of Venice. 

When she went to Venice, she saw a 

house with her name on it. Her surname 

traveled from Italy to Romania 

where she was born. 

She attended the State University 

of New York at Stony Brook, then she 

went to graduate school at University 

of California San Diego. Barozzi 

studied applied linguistics during her 

higher education. 

Her journey of linguistics didn’t end 

at graduate school, Barozzi then earned 

a master’s degree in linguistics from 

the University of the Andes in Bogotá, 

Colombia, and a master’s and doctorate 

in applied linguistics from Nebrija 

University in Madrid, Spain. 

After her children graduated from 

college, she decided to join a doctoral 

program and obtained her PhD in applied 

linguistics. She currently chairs 

the Department of Foreign Languages 

at The Academy at Penguin Hall in 

Lynnfield's Dr. 

Alma Barozzi is the 

author of “What 

kind of name is that? 

European Surnames: 

Meanings and 

Traditions.” 

Wenham, where she teaches Spanish 

and Oral History. 

Before Barozzi became interested in 

onomastics – a study of the history and 

origin of proper personal names – she 

was fascinated with toponymics. Toponymics 

is a study of proper names of 

places or geographic names. She loved 

to look at maps and learn about every 

country and capital and every mountain 

and river. 

A few years ago, before the pandemic, 

Barozzi was not planning to write a 

book on surnames. She was looking for 

some information about last names but 

could not find much. 

“For as long as I can recall,” Barozzi 

says, “I’ve been drawn to the diversity 

and mysterious origins of family names. 

Where are you from? Where is your 

family from? Your grandparents? Your 

roots? I asked these questions with 

curiosity and some trepidation, not 

wanting to make anyone feel uncomfortable,” 

she said. 

She needed information of English 

names and Italian names; it would be 

even better if there was an atlas of last 

names. Since there was no such information 

out there, she decided to write


something herself. 

Europe was the first stop in her journey 

in writing the book because she was 

familiar with European names. Barozzi 

concluded information she gathered 

over the internet into many files, categorized 

country by country. 

“A very funny page in this book is 

that I found something really interesting 

on the Dutch names,” said Barozzi. 

In her book at the end of the session 

of Dutch names, a page of funny 

Netherlands history showed that it was 

widely believed that when Napoleon’s 

army occupied the Netherlands, they 

forced Dutch people to adopt surnames 

to register Dutch people for tax collecting 

purposes. 

The Dutch protested this by choosing 

hilarious names and believed this 

surnames adoption to be temporary. 

The hilarious names include Aarsman 

(assman), Doodeman (dead man), 

Onderbroek (underpants), Pannenkoek 

(pancake) etc. However, the names 

stuck with Dutch people, and they 

began to ignore the meaning. 

Her interest in onomastics has grown 

to the East part of the globe. Barozzi’s 

next book will be focusing on the history 

of Asian surnames. 

Over the years, her interest expanded 

to the bearers of any unusual last name, 

whether she knew them or not. She 

was fascinated by surname patterns in 

different cultures and often searched for 

sources that might satisfy her curiosity. 

She found multiple books and articles 

on surnames specific to certain countries, 

but what she really wanted was 

an atlas of surnames. So, she decided to 

create one. 

Barozzi hopes her book will be informative 

as well as entertaining, a guide 

as much for onomastics professionals 

and genealogists, as for casual readers 

and those curious to learn if their 

names may harken back to an ancestor 

known as a “clay marble baker,” “wise 

one” or “rooster,” or perhaps to a tree or 

blackberry grove inhabited by the family 

centuries ago. Thanks for the author, 

genealogy fans now have a new rabbit 

hole to scurry down in their quest to 

seek their origins and past. 

“What Kind of Name is That? European 

Surnames: Meanings and Traditions” 

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Abigail Porter is 

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Porter, who spent the decade working 

in libraries, wears round, tortoise shell 

frame glasses, and can identify almost 

any book based off of just a few basic plot 

points, exudes almost every positive quirk 

associated with her field, while seeming to 

embody none of her profession’s negative 

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things. And, you know, storytime is always 

loud. It's great.” 

Before her appointment to the role of 

library director in June, Porter, who earned 

a master’s degree in library sciences and 

children’s literature at Simmons University, 

spent a year as acting library director 

in the wake of former Library Director 

Jennifer Inglis’ resignation last August. 

After a committee searched for Inglis’ 

permanent replacement, Porter ended up 

assuming the role. As permanent director, 

she said that she hopes to expand accessibility 

and service to the community, part 

of which includes a string of initiatives, 

from electronic readers, to captioning for 

online meetings. 

“We purchased some imaging equipment 

that will allow people to enlarge 

whatever they need to look at,” Porter 

said. “We're working on making sure 

that captioning is on for all of our virtual 

events, not that we're having too many of 

those anymore. Obviously, we're Americans 

with Disabilities Act compliant, but 

we’re always thinking about becoming 

more dementia friendly, and more sensory 

friendly for anybody with those issues. 

We’re just making sure that the library is 

for everybody, as it's supposed to be.” 

Porter took over as director while the 

library was in the midst of planning a 

relocation. The Lynnfield Public Library 

plans to secure, within the year, $8 million 

in grants from the state Board of Library 

Commissioners to build a new library. 

Porter said that the prospective site will 

be located at Reedy Meadows, where 

members can enjoy more sunlight and 

outdoor space during events and community 

gatherings. 

“This building hasn't been updated 

since 1967. So there's a lot of issues that 

are happening with it, you know, leaks 

and all of those kinds of things. More 

than that, we don't have the parking, we 

don't have the space for people, especially 

during the pandemic, we were realizing 

all of the things we could have been doing 

if we had a meeting room, or if we had 

more outside space,” Porter said. “People 

are still using libraries for a lot of other 

things, even just study space, and we don't 

have space for storytime right now. We're 

always borrowing from the meeting house 

and they're busy. It's hard to fight for that 

space.” 

During the pandemic’s height, when 

businesses and organizations nationwide 

struggled to bring in new faces, Porter 

said that the library saw a massive 

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PORTER, continued from page 23 

influx of community members seeking 

audiobooks and Ebooks. She said that 

these products’ popularity persisted after 

COVID-19 stabilized, as a younger generation 

found out that they could use the 

library for more than just books. 

“Our numbers are actually higher than 

they were pre-pandemic, which was exciting. 

Our ebook use skyrocketed, because 

people discovered it during the pandemic, 

when they couldn't come in, especially 

audio books, people, I think, realized that 

they could just download an audiobook 

on their phone,” Porter said. “It’s free and 

wonderful, and you don't have to give any 

money to Audible.” 

“We had I think 80,000 people come 

through the door in August. [...] We're 

rebounding really fast, and studies are 

showing that millennials and Gen Z are 

using the library more than ever, I think, 

because it's free. You know, it's not another 

streaming service you have to pay for,” 

Porter added. 

In the near future, Porter said that she 

would like to start hosting community 

classes in the library, so that Lynnfield 

residents can learn new skills and engage 

in new hobbies without paying a penny. 

She said that she often starts hobbies, 

pays money for training and equipment, 

and then abandons them. 

“I'm the queen of starting a hobby, and 

then I go all in for like, $250. And then 

I think ‘wait, I don't actually love this 

that much,’ so I'd love a free place where 

you can try something out, and see if you 

really enjoy it before you actually have to 

make any sort of investment.” 

Porter prides herself on her ability 

to help pretty much anyone who walks 

through Lynnfield Public Library doors, 

to locate, essentially, any book. If the library 

does not have a requested book, Porter, 

librarian-in-chief, can get it. Besides a 

general love for reading, Porter said that 

her attraction to her new role is also based 

in appreciation for the community. 

“It's really nice to be entrenched in the 

Lynnfield community and get to know 

everybody,” Porter said. “I worked in 

Haverhill before this, and it was a much 

bigger library, it was harder to get to know 

the regulars there, just because there were 

so many. Here, I know most of the people 

who come through the door pretty regularly; 

we have our good regulars and a lot 

of the same people come to the programs, 

they get to really know Lynnfield a lot 

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more.” 

Lynnfield Public Library Director 

Abigail Porter knows every 

stack and shelf in 18 Summer St.


Let there be light 

BY ALEXANDRA RODRIGUEZ 

PHOTOS BY LIBBY O'NEILL 

Alexa and Topher Gale launched their 

candles in March 2021 with an online 

website six months after concocting their 

initial plan to craft candles during the 

COVID-19 pandemic. 

Alexa was an actress in California 

meanwhile Topher was a musician. When 

the pandemic hit, they decided to move 

to the East Coast with family. Living in a 

one-bedroom apartment, the pair started 

creating candles as a creative outlet 

bringing with them the holistic approach 

the West Coast is known for when it 

comes to adding a luxury aesthetic. 

They banked on their candles appealing 

to everyone. 

“We started just because we burned so 

LIGHT, continued on page 26 

Co-owners of Light 

& Gale Topher and 

Alexa Gale prepare 

candles in their 

home in Lynnfield.

LIGHT, continued from page 25 

many candles. We started making them 

as a creative outlet and then it kind of 

blossomed into being obsessed with making 

them and sharing them with people,” 

said Topher Gale. 

“From being in Los Angeles where 

everyone is so health conscious, we 

really learned how natural products are 

so important and that having candles 

and cleaning supplies that aren’t clean 

will affect your mood, will affect your 

hormones, will give you a headache, etc.,” 

said Alexa Gale. 

When getting the Limited Liability 

Company (LLC) documents, the Gales 

knew they had to remain serious and 

continue to grow their candle company. 

“We got to make this work!” said Topher 

Gale with certainty. 

After starting the candle company 

six months after crafting their initial 

plan, the pair knew the most important 

thing they had in common was growing 

a product brand to to reach as many 

people as possible. But they had different 

perspectives on the best approach to 

accomplishing their goals. 

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He’s from Minnesota, he is very Midwest and 

I’m from the East Coast, Boston. I feel like we 

both bring different ideas to the table. He’s very 

much a perfectionist. He does all the making, 

from pouring the wax into the candles to 

putting the wick into the wick clip. He excels at 

that. Meanwhile, I do social media and connecting 

with people and getting all the marketing 

and getting us into festivals and getting us into 

shows,” said Alexa Gale. 

To create a most productive process, the pair 

stays where they perform the best. “We both 

know our lanes and after a year of doing it, we 

realized it's best to leave each other in those 

lanes, but then combine for the creative part of 

it,” said Alexa Gale. 

Creatively, they combine ideas with the vessels 

and scents they plan to use to craft a limited-edition 

candle. When it comes to scents, the 

couple has different ideas. Topher’s scent profile 

gravitates towards sweater, fruity, richer scents 

meanwhile Alexa leans towards scents that are 

fresher, brighter, and musky. 

The Gales stray true to having scents that are 

clean for the environment. 

“No matter what season it is or what candle 

it is we need them to be phthalate free, paraben 

free, and non-toxic,” said Alexa Gale. 

When it comes to spending time together, the 

Gales cherish it. Not only do they work together 

on their small business, but they work together 

in the same complex, Alexa is the property manager, 

and Topher is maintenance manager. 

When it comes to candle making, the 

couple works out the kinks and quarrels. 

“We don’t fight but we are both very passionate 

about this. We both have strong 

ideas. But it works because it’s good to 

have two completely different views and 

come to a great compromise,” said Alexa 

Gale. 

“At the end of the day, this is still fun 

for us. We don’t really see it as a job so 

it’s still fun to share a job we both enjoy 

doing together with each other. I think 

that’s the most rewarding part of working 

with your spouse,” added Topher Gale. 

The pair's ultimate goal is to sell their 

candles at a small boutique and home 

décor stores. 

Currently, Light & Gale Candles can 

be found at outdoor shows, pop-up shops, 

and craft fairs throughout the months 

and on their social media where they 

keep their active followers updated with 

current events and engaged in what scents 

they would like to see next. 

Light & Gale has an online store 

offering seasonal, classic, and limited-edition 

candles that range from $18-$34. To 

learn more about Light & Gale Candles 

please visit https://lightandgalecandleco. 

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Bringing the 

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Matthias Kiehm brings a 

taste of the Mediterranean 

to MarketStreet Lynnfield. 

BY ANNE MARIE TOBIN 

PHOTOS BY SPENSER HASAK 

The brainchild of global hospitality 

industry veterans Matthias Kiehm, a 

former resident of Lynnfield, and James 

Wierzelweski, La Gallina is Market- 

Street's latest palate pleaser with fresh 

takes on classic and innovative dishes 

from Spain, Greece, Turkey, Italy and 

Lebanon. The menu invites guests to 

tour the Mediterranean coast without 

ever leaving their chairs. 

"I am a firm believer that when you 

walk into a space, it has to resemble the 

food you serve," said Kiehm. "I have a 

love affair with Italy and a Mediterranean 

farmhouse there was my inspiration 

for this space. It's my happy place 

with a feeling of family from a beautiful 

part of the world. Our goal was to create 

a comfortable place and that's what 

I think we have done at La Gallina. I 

wanted to bring a little magic of the 

Mediterranean to the Greater Boston 

area with La Gallina." 

The restaurant has seating for 260 

guests. It features an open kitchen, spacious 

dining room, wraparound bar and 

indoor and outdoor patios. Currently 

serving only dinner, the restaurant will 

also serve lunch with weekend brunch 

coming sometime in November. Private 

dining will also be available. 

Kiehm and Wierzelweski have 

nearly 60 combined years of experience 

overseeing some of the world's most 

celebrated properties. 

Kiehm was affiliated with Four 

Seasons Hotels and Resorts In Los 

Angeles, Boston, Chicago and Sharm 

El Sheikh (an Egyptian resort) through 

2006 when he left the company as 

general manager. He moved on to serve 

as business director of food at Harrods 

in London, where he opened 12 

restaurants in a span of three and half 

years and was responsible for catering 

operations for the English Premier 

League's Fulham Football Club while


serving as vice president of the Ritz 

Hotel in Paris. 

It was at Harrods where Kiehm met 

his current partner, Wierzelewski, who 

was Harrods' director of culinary. 

Wierzelewski will lead all culinary 

and beverage elements for La Gallina. 

With more than 30 years in the 

business, he has worked at several elite 

hospitality management companies, 

heading food and beverage operations at 

Four Seasons, Shangri La, Hyatt, Fairmont, 

and Rotana, Norwegian Cruise 

Lines and Disney as well as directing 

operations for other establishments in 

North America, Europe, the Middle 

East, Asia. In the last decade alone, he 

was instrumental in directing food and 

beverage operations at 34 new hotels. 

Randy Hill is general manager, previously 

the area manager of Wagamama 

USA for the greater Boston area. 

For Kiehm, it's all about family. He 

has local ties in Lynnfield dating back 

to 1974. Kiehm said his wife, Felicia 

(Stephan) grew up in Lynnfield about 

five minutes away from MarketStreet. 

His father-in-law Stephan Captain 

owned and operated as many as 25 

Captain's Pizza shops, which were located 

all across the North Shore. Kiehm 

and his wife lived in Lynnfield from 

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GALLINA, continued from page 29 

1999-2002 before relocating to Chicago 

when Kiehm accepted a job at the Four 

Seasons. 

The expansive menu is overseen 

by chef Daniel Xavier, who was most 

recently sous chef at the award-winning 

Boston Seaport based restaurant, 

Chickadee. 

The menu features everything from 

Charcuterie & Cheese boards, Hummus 

Dips & Spreads, to succulent Grilled 

Skewered Meats. Several tapas are on 

the menu, including Spanish Croquetas 

with serrano ham and manchego cheese 

and Pan-Seared Grecian Meatballs with 

kefalotyri cheese, tzatziki, mint, and 

pita chips. 

Other items include a variety of oven-baked 

pizzas all lovingly “hen-crafted” 

with a sourdough starter recipe 

that’s over 125 years old. Main dishes 

include Pan-Roasted Chicken with pan 

drippings, rosemary, and grapes and 

the Spanish Fideuà, a Valencia Seafood 

Dish. 

A selection of vegetable-centric dishes 

populate the menu, including Roasted 

Cauliflower + Whipped Feta with 

carrot-raisin quinoa salad and pumpkin 

seed dressing, Moroccan Tomato Soup 

with roasted onion and touch of yogurt, 

and Grilled Romesco + Asparagus. 

Hand-crafted cocktails, zero-percent 

cocktails, sangrias, spritzes, regional 

brews and ciders, and a thoughtfully 

sourced list of affordable wines from 

around the Mediterranean and beyond, 

all available by the glass and bottle. 

When asked what his favorite menu 

item is at La Gallina, Kiehm did not 

hesitate. 

"It's my mother-in-law's Greek 

meatballs," said Kiehm. "I have to keep 

her happy." 

Kiehm said the Mediterranean region 

has always meant a lot to him. 

"My wife's family is from Sparta and 

the island of Lesvos in Greece," he said. 

"My son spoke his first words in Sardinia. 

I consider the island of Mallorca 

my second home. I have dear friends 

who live in Italy on top of a hillside. 

James and I lived and worked in the 

region for many years and we fell in 

love with the people, their culture, their 

history–and of course–their food." 

La Gallina is open six days a week. 

For hours, call 781-776-7600 or visit 

www.lagallina-lynnfield.com. 

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La Gallina co-owners James Wierzelewski, left, and 

Matthias Kiehm stand in the dining room of the new 

Mediterranean-inspired restaurant at MarketStreet 

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2002 College of the Holy 

Cross Hall of Fame inductee 

Lauren Maney George. 

Banner bound 

BY JOEY BARRETT 

The summer of 1990: a Lynnfield native 

intentionally attended a College of 

the Holy Cross basketball clinic to impress 

the coaching staff. Looking back, 

Lauren Maney George could have never 

imagined she’d have her jersey dangling 

over the Crusaders’ court one day. 

As a freshman at the college in 1993, 

it was initially just excitement to be 

there. But once she stepped foot inside 

of the Hart Center Arena, it was more 

than just excitement – rather, the beginning 

of a legacy. 

George, a former shooting guard, 

scored a total of 1,721 points in her 

career. For that reason, the number four 

will never be worn by a Crusader again. 

Despite her individual prowess, it 

wasn’t herself she was thinking of when 

first hearing the news. 

“It was a very big surprise,” George 

said. “Something that immediately made 

me think of my teammates.” 

One of her teammates, Christine 

Porath, said she remembers working at 

the summer camp the wide-eyed high 

schooler was attending. Years later, they 

wound up being travel roommates. Despite 

George’s competitive nature – even 

in the world of card games – Porath said 

she doesn’t have enough good things to 

say about her former road partner. 

“She was a lot of fun, of course,” Porath 

said. “She’s the first person to show 

up for you when you have a personal 

crisis or challenge.” 

With all of the 6 a.m. practices, 

hardwood battles, and off-the-court 

memories, she has one remembrance 

that always sticks out in her mind: the 

Fordham game. 

A hard-fought battle resulted in Holy 

Cross defeating Fordham after losing to 

them earlier in the season – winning the 

Patriot league for the Crusaders in what 

George described as “extra sweet.” 

“It’s funny, just this summer, several 

of us got together at our coach’s lake 

house in New Hampshire and somebody 

asked that question,” George said. “I 

immediately said the Fordham game.” 

George said she learned so much from 

her time in the purple and white, but 

that her biggest takeaway was how an 

individual can love working hard for the 

people around them. 

“We’re in this together,” George said. 

“That’s obviously something that helps 

in life after college and after sports, is 

that mentality of doing your best and 

working together as a team. That’s true 

in the workplace, it’s true in your family, 

it’s true everywhere.” 

Her number will be placed in the rafters 

on Jan. 28, 2023 at the Hart Center 

Arena in Worcester, where George’s 

legacy will live on forever. 

“I loved Holy Cross. I loved playing 

basketball. I just couldn’t get enough of 

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it,” George said.


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lets sounds, smells 

guide his art 

BY RACHEL BARBER 

PHOTOS BY PAM KRINSKY/LYNNFIELD ART GUILD 

Adam Adkison is an artist and teacher celebrated last month by the 

Lynnfield Art Guild for his work in oil botanicals. 

“Working from life gives energy and immediacy to my art. The sun 

moving across the sky, the smell of autumn leaves, water lapping, the 

laugh of children playing nearby, all these elements add to the work. 

I work from life as much as possible. The ability to incorporate the 

Adam Adkison paints in oil 

and water color. 

“Working from life gives 

energy and immediacy to my 

art,” said Adkison.


energy of my surroundings into art also 

energizes me. When looking at my work 

it’s my hope that these traces of life shine 

through the paint,” Adkison said. 

He works in oil paint and watercolor, but 

also in almost every medium from charcoal 

to pastel. Switching mediums can help 

"shake things up," Adkison said, with each 

medium bringing new ways of working to 

each other. 

He primes his own canvases, using high 

quality ingredients, ensuring the process is 

done properly. Applying the paint in brushstrokes 

allows him to "show the creator’s 

touch in the work.” 

“It’s my hope that my art makes others 

excited about art. I want them to be 

inspired and carry this excitement into creative 

projects of their own, into their own 

life. In my own life I’ve been influenced by 

the art, music, and writing of others. To be 

part of this flow of creativity is one of the 

most humbling experiences of my life and I 

am ever grateful,” he said. 

The Guild’s Fall Art Show and Sale Nov. 

5 and 6 turned Lynnfield Common and the 

Meeting House into a temporary art gallery. 

Membership in the Lynnfield Art Guild 

is open to artisans, photographers and 

artists of all levels, with student, supporting 

and family memberships available. 

This demonstration is open to all members 

via invitation; prospective members 

are encouraged to join the Guild at www. 

lynnfieldarts.org to take advantage of this 

and upcoming special artistic opportunities, 

including free attendance at all live and 

virtual demonstrations and the ability to 

display art, network with other artists and 

show pieces in our popular exhibits. 

Visit the Guild's website www.lynnfieldarts.org 

and check out Lynnfield Arts 

“It’s my hope that my art 

makes others excited about Facebook (Lynnfield Arts) and Instagram 

art.” (@lynnfieldartguild) pages. 40


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