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You may have heard that the Super Bowl was played a few weeks ago. If so, you’re well versed on<br />

the Kelce brothers. Travis and Jason Kelce seemingly became the most famous brothers since Jack,<br />

Bobby, and Ted.<br />

The Kelces were the first brothers to play against one another in the Super Bowl – but brother<br />

acts have been prevalent in sports for years. Remember Hank and Tommie Aaron and Jim and<br />

Gaylord Perry? I think there was a second Canseco along with Jose. John and Jim Harbaugh made<br />

history by becoming the first brothers to coach against each other in the Super Bowl.<br />

In college basketball, Aaron and Andrew Harrison helped Kentucky to a 38-1 record and the<br />

verge of an NCAA championship in 2015. College football had the Selmons: LeRoy, Dewey, and<br />

Lucious. There were a slew (six) of Sutter brothers in the NHL; in the NBA are the Curry and Ball<br />

brothers and in MLB, Bengie, José, and Yadier Molina, who won the World Series with various<br />

teams, and Ken and Clete Boyer.<br />

Closer to home were Doug and Darren Flutie at BC. Toner brothers Eddie, Tom, Mark, Bill,<br />

Paul, and John played college ball (Tom at Idaho State, the rest at UMass), and Eddie and Tom<br />

went on to the pros (as did Eddie’s son Ed); Tony and Billy Conigliaro made the big leagues; and<br />

Bobby and Frank DeFelice coached in high school and college.<br />

These are the ones I remember; I'm sure there are more.<br />

(I'm not forgetting Shemp, Moe and Curly Howard, but that’s another story.)<br />

All of which make Lynnfield High hockey fans shrug.<br />

What’s the big deal?<br />

The Pioneers have more sets of siblings – five – than they have losses this season (15-0-1 at<br />

press time).<br />

Jack and Jay Carpenter, Drew and Dylan Damiani, John and Michael Marenghi, and Aidan<br />

and Will Norton have all helped the Pioneers get out to a blazing start this season. Oh, by the way,<br />

head coach Jon Gardner and associate coach Jason Gardner are twins.<br />

In a game earlier this season, Drew Damiani scored his 100th career point on an assist from his<br />

brother Dylan, a story that you cannot make up. In another game, Aidan Norton recorded his first<br />

career varsity goal, assisted by his brother Will.<br />

Mark Aboyoun scores with the story.<br />

The brothers aren’t the only success stories in this edition of <strong>01940</strong>.<br />

Joey Barrett highlights the accomplishments of Mia Muzio, Lynnfield High’s first female<br />

athletic director who is big on teamwork and organization.<br />

A tip of the cap also is due Charles Arakelian, whose company – ChucksBuckets – produces<br />

hats in the colors of your favorite team. Emily Pauls has you covered (get it? covered?) with that<br />

story, and she also goes writer-on-writer with a feature on Lynnfield High graduate (and former<br />

Essex Media Group intern) Alex Ross’ work with People Magazine.<br />

Alexandra Rodriguez puts high school student Lucas Cook and his commitment to making<br />

birthday bags for homeless women and children in the spotlight. Rodriguez also takes us into the<br />

world of Laura Brodigan, who created a fashion line that has attracted celebrities such as multiple<br />

Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles.<br />

Elsewhere, Steve Fantone is a wildlife recorder who creates creature features by using trail<br />

cameras to video Lynnfield wildlife. Charlie McKenna has the story. Speaking of trails, Kathryn<br />

Price is blazing one of her own as she seeks the Abbot World Marathon Majors status given to<br />

those who complete the top six marathons in the world. And Ryan Vermette tells the story of<br />

Lynnfield Fire Department mechanic Capt. Kevin Mutti and how he became the caretaker of a<br />

109-year-old Ford Model T fire truck.<br />

Finally, I was never much of a Celtics guy. I bounced from the DeBusschere/Bradley/Frazier<br />

Knicks as a kid to the Magic/Kareem/Worthy Lakers and now today’s LeBron Lakers. But after<br />

hearing from my friend and former colleague Tom Dalton of Lynnfield, and then reading our<br />

Sports Editor Barrett’s story, I have a new-found appreciation of Chris Ford.<br />

It’s among the highlights of this edition of <strong>01940</strong>.<br />

Enjoy it.<br />

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WHAT'S UP<br />

Get your vote on<br />

What: The annual town election and<br />

Town Meeting are Lynnfield springtime<br />

rituals.<br />

Where: The high school, 275 Essex St.,<br />

is the traditional election and meeting<br />

location.<br />

When: The annual election is Tuesday,<br />

April 11, 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. and Town<br />

Meeting is Monday, April 24, 7 p.m.<br />

Tales to tell<br />

What: MarketStreet Lynnfield Barnes<br />

& Noble hosts storytime tales.<br />

Where: Check Barnes & Noble's<br />

Instagram for a weekly book choices<br />

sneak peek.<br />

When: Thursdays, 11 a.m. - noon<br />

through Dec. 31.<br />

Class Act<br />

What: Lynnfield Community Schools<br />

offers youth-oriented programs<br />

including yoga, music and dance.<br />

Where: Visit the school website at bit.<br />

ly/lynnfieldcommunityschools. Reach<br />

out to the LCS staff at 781-334-5814 or<br />

by email lcs@lynnfield.k12.ma.us<br />

When: School-based programs are<br />

offered various times of the day.<br />

Bowled over<br />

What: Lynnfield Recreation offers<br />

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or any adult with boys in grades 1<br />

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Mia Muzio (yellow shirt), Lynnfield<br />

High's first female athletic director,<br />

is all smiles surrounded by members<br />

of the high school football team.<br />

PHOTOS: MIA MUZIO<br />

Well worth<br />

the wait<br />

for Muzio<br />

By Joey Barrett<br />

Magazine Staff<br />

Life paths are strange. Sometimes,<br />

they go as planned like a straight line<br />

– while other times, they come out<br />

more like a scribble. Lynnfield athletic<br />

director Mia Muzio called her path<br />

“convoluted,” but said she’s exactly<br />

where she belongs.<br />

Muzio, who also serves as the kindergarten<br />

- grade 12 Physical Education,<br />

Health and Wellness Coordinator, is<br />

the first female athletic director in<br />

Lynnfield High history.<br />

“Females are slowly starting to really<br />

prove that we’re capable of doing this<br />

job,” Muzio said. “They should be in<br />

these roles; they should be represented.”<br />

Muzio’s first day as Lynnfield’s AD<br />

was on July 1, but her story started long<br />

before that. After attending Rockport<br />

High, she played field hockey at Ithaca<br />

College. After her senior year there,<br />

she still helped out and fell in love with<br />

coaching – despite it “derailing” her<br />

intended future in law.<br />

She eventually started coaching<br />

North Reading field hockey (junior<br />

varsity, then varsity), to which she said<br />

“it was pretty much the best thing I<br />

ever did.”<br />

Just like that scribble, she said her<br />

path “spiraled in a good way from<br />

there.”<br />

A few more stops later, Muzio got<br />

her first AD job at Weymouth in 2019<br />

before taking the same job at Wilmington<br />

in 2020. And when talking about<br />

her most recent change of scenery,<br />

Muzio said her nerves went away because<br />

Lynnfield “was the most supportive<br />

environment that I’ve been in” as a<br />

new member of a school district.<br />

“It’s been a long path, but I’ve finally<br />

made it,” Muzio said. “Everything,<br />

ultimately, has its purpose.”<br />

Muzio values relationship-building,<br />

helping kids, and having people around<br />

her feel comfortable.<br />

“It may have taken me a little bit<br />

longer to get here, but I really pride<br />

myself on the fact that I don’t see this<br />

as an administrative job,” Muzio said.<br />

“My goal is to reach kids and have<br />

them be comfortable.”<br />

She’s also “hyper-focused” on being<br />

organized and having things in place<br />

– to which she jokingly admitted to<br />

going overboard at times.<br />

“Having things like a student-athlete<br />

handbook, or having things like a really<br />

well-organized website, [or] moving<br />

MUZIO, continued on page 8


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MUZIO, continued from page 6<br />

from paper registration to online registration<br />

was a big change that we made<br />

this year,” Muzio said.<br />

In a position of leadership, Muzio<br />

also said she enjoys seeing people do<br />

the right thing.<br />

“I’m less concerned about what team<br />

went 18-2 as opposed to what team I<br />

see after practice picking up chairs and<br />

picking up their teammates,” Muzio<br />

said. “They’re [student-athletes] not<br />

going to remember a game they won on<br />

October 17; they’re going to remember<br />

their teammates.”<br />

Muzio admires Lynnfield for its<br />

passion towards athletics, and said its<br />

student-athletes are “the greatest group<br />

of kids.”<br />

“I’ve never seen a group of kids that<br />

are so into supporting each other,”<br />

Muzio said. “They’re just a solid<br />

group.”<br />

She has her “fingers crossed” her<br />

role at Lynnfield is her last stop, also<br />

adding “you have to sometimes pinch<br />

yourself ” when talking about some<br />

parts of the job.<br />

“The nerves kind of stopped pretty<br />

quickly when I realized I finally found<br />

exactly where I fit,” Muzio said. 40<br />

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When you go to a sports game,<br />

whether that be baseball, hockey,<br />

basketball or football, there is a sea of<br />

fans wearing jerseys for their favorite<br />

players. This may be changing in the<br />

future because Lynnfield native Charles<br />

Arakelian has a new product for sports<br />

fans to wear: “a hat that resembles a<br />

jersey.”<br />

“The way I really started the hat<br />

business was an idea I had, of instead<br />

of wearing a jersey to a game, why not<br />

wear a hat. So I know a lot of people<br />

aren't fond of wearing jerseys that can<br />

be bulky sometimes,” Arakelian said.<br />

So he started his new business called<br />

ChucksBuckets in 2019. The first hats<br />

he made were for the local teams like<br />

the Bruins and Patriots which he sold<br />

to fans.<br />

“The idea was to have a hat, the<br />

color of their jersey, and the number<br />

in the numbers on the front, the same<br />

color as their numbers on their jerseys,”<br />

Arakelian said. “So that would be the<br />

front of the hat and the back of the hat<br />

would either be a logo or a nickname<br />

that describes the athlete.”<br />

After the initial success of the hats,<br />

they grew in popularity spreading to<br />

professional athletes.<br />

“Through networking, and a lot of<br />

people I know. I was able to get them<br />

on to the professional athletes heads<br />

themselves,” Arakelian said. “So we've<br />

had a lot of professional athletes wear<br />

our hats, which has been really cool.<br />

We've had hockey players nationwide<br />

wear our hats, we've had people in the<br />

music world wear our hats, people on<br />

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HATS, continued from page 10<br />

he is thinking of extending to other<br />

clothing such as shirts.<br />

“Maybe have a large number on the<br />

front of a T-shirt. But really my goals<br />

and path is towards the hats end of<br />

things but I may incorporate clothing<br />

as well,” Arakelian said.<br />

The hat business isn’t the only<br />

endeavor Arakelian has in the athletic<br />

world, he is also the franchisee of a<br />

Stretch Zones in Wayland and Woburn.<br />

The company, which is based out<br />

of Fort Lauderdale, “provides a service<br />

called assisted stretching,” he said.<br />

“At Stretch Zone we use patented<br />

equipment to position and stabilize<br />

muscles, allowing for long lasting<br />

results, some benefits of practitioner<br />

assistance stretching, or keeping your<br />

muscles strong, flexible and healthy,”<br />

Arakelian said.<br />

They also can prevent injuries,<br />

reduce soreness and improve posture.<br />

Their clients range from age 15 to 80<br />

and those who are and aren’t active.<br />

“We stretch people that are professional<br />

athletes, people that are runners,<br />

cyclists, tennis players, golfers, we<br />

service all sorts of ailments from lower<br />

body to upper body. The first stretch<br />

we provide is always free. So there's no<br />

strings attached,” Arakelian said.<br />

Before finding success in his professional<br />

life, Arakelian grew up in Lynnfield<br />

and graduated from Lynnfield<br />

High School in 2008.<br />

“They provided an amazing education<br />

for me that led to the path of me<br />

going to college,” Arakelian said. “But<br />

a lot of the things I learned growing up<br />

in the Lynnfield school system, I can<br />

definitely relate to the success I've had<br />

in the business world and the designing<br />

I've done.”<br />

Being an entrepreneur is something<br />

that he has wanted to do since he was<br />

a kid.<br />

“I grew up in a family where my<br />

father was a business owner, my grandfather<br />

was a business owner, and my<br />

great grandfather was a business owner.<br />

So it was kind of always instilled in me<br />

and I've always wanted to just own my<br />

40<br />

own business,” Arakelian said.


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By Emily Pauls<br />

Magazine Staff<br />

Alex Ross decided to become a journalist<br />

while sitting in a chair at the dentist's<br />

office at age 13. Now, she’s interviewing<br />

celebrities for People Magazine.<br />

“I was obsessed, like my whole life<br />

trying to figure out what I wanted to do,”<br />

Ross said. “My dentist knew that I was<br />

always talking about what I wanted to<br />

do when I grew up, and he came in one<br />

day, I think it was in eighth grade and he<br />

was like, alright, like, what is it this time?<br />

And I was like … I'm deciding whether<br />

or not I want to be a news anchor or a<br />

CIA operative and he was like, okay, cool,<br />

let me know which one you go with and<br />

I thought about it and I was like, yeah, I<br />

think I think I'm gonna be a news anchor.”<br />

Ross grew up in Lynnfield and after deciding<br />

she wanted to pursue journalism her<br />

mom took her to New York City in 2015<br />

to see the Today Show in person.<br />

“I used to record the today show on<br />

DVR so that I could watch it when I<br />

came home from school because I'm like<br />

that obsessed with that show and all the<br />

anchors and so she took me because all I<br />

wanted to do was go stand on the (Rockefeller)<br />

Plaza and meet them all,” Ross said.<br />

Her “claim to fame” happened that day<br />

when she went to NYC. She brought a<br />

sign that said “Natalie, can I do the news<br />

with you?” Natalie Morales was one of the<br />

anchors at that time.<br />

"The guy whose job it is to produce the<br />

people out on the plaza, his name was Alex<br />

and my name is Alex so we get to chatting<br />

and he's like, ‘I'm gonna like see what I can<br />

do for you,’" Ross said.<br />

This producer was able to have Ross<br />

actually do the news on the Today Show<br />

that day.<br />

“He was like, ‘OK, let's go inside like<br />

we're gonna mic you up and you're gonna<br />

CARPET, continued on page 18<br />

Alex Ross interviews Chris Hemsworth.<br />

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18 | <strong>01940</strong><br />

CARPET, continued from page 17<br />

do the news with Natalie,’” Ross said. “The<br />

very first time I read off a teleprompter,<br />

which is like a weird journalism niche<br />

thing to say but meant a lot to me, was in<br />

Studio One A standing next to Natalie<br />

Morales on the Today Show .”<br />

This only solidified her dream to become<br />

a journalist.<br />

“I remember looking around being like,<br />

this is insane, these people are wonderful.<br />

I want to do this for the rest of my life,”<br />

Ross said.<br />

After high school Ross attended Boston<br />

University’s College of Communication<br />

which she graduated from in 2021. While<br />

at BU she worked for BUTV10, the broadcasting<br />

program at the university.<br />

Going to college during COVID-19<br />

was interesting as a journalism student, she<br />

said. It went from really hands-on to being<br />

stuck at home.<br />

“It kind of just lit a fire under me to the<br />

point where when we were finally able to<br />

go back, like some of the classes weren't<br />

even back in session yet but they allowed us<br />

to get back into the studio. So I was doing<br />

like Zoom classes, but still kind of producing<br />

my news show and it felt very true to<br />

the core of what journalism is,” Ross said.<br />

Doing the news on the Today Show<br />

was an Alex Ross dream come true.<br />

When COVID-19 struck she decided<br />

to intern for her local paper — The Daily<br />

Item . She said it was a “gift” to report and<br />

write for the place she grew up in.<br />

“I got to do some really special stories<br />

while I was there,” Ross said. “My high<br />

school AP biology teacher was retiring, and<br />

I got to go and have lunch with her and<br />

then I wrote up a piece and it was so lovely,<br />

and so special and I still keep in touch with<br />

her like she and I email back and forth.<br />

That meant a lot.”<br />

While at BU where she got her start in<br />

entertainment journalism while interning<br />

for E! News.<br />

Entertainment journalism is never where<br />

Ross thought she would be, her initial<br />

interests were in the political sector of the<br />

field. But the opportunity to intern for E!<br />

just sort of fell into place.<br />

“I interned for the Today Show which<br />

was a dream come true,” Ross said. “After<br />

that, because E! news was owned by NBC,<br />

so my next NBC internship happened to<br />

be with E! and I didn't even apply to that.<br />

I had applied to news internships and<br />

nobody wanted me.”<br />

When she hadn’t heard back from the<br />

news internships a recruiter told her that<br />

she sent Ross’ resume to E!.<br />

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like I never in a million years would have<br />

thought of this,” Ross said.<br />

At first, she didn’t like the job and felt<br />

like she didn’t belong because she said she<br />

didn’t know anything about people like the<br />

Kardashians.<br />

“Then I kind of actually gave it a chance,<br />

because one of my favorite things about<br />

the Today Show is that Savannah Guthrie<br />

can be interviewing world leaders at 7:30<br />

in the morning, and then she's making<br />

pancakes with Martha Stewart at eight. So<br />

I love just the duality of that,” Ross said.<br />

The first red carpet she attended was<br />

with E! News, she said.<br />

“I kind of pitched my way there, it was<br />

in New York, I was still at BU,” Ross said.<br />

Ross said her bosses knew of her fandom<br />

for Law and Order: SVU . One of the<br />

stars of the show, Mariska Hargitay, was<br />

honored at Glamour Magazine’s Women<br />

of the Year event.<br />

“I was like ‘guys I don't know if you<br />

need anyone to like, write about this,’ me<br />

thinking like I'll do it from my dorm room<br />

‘but like, I'll help in any way possible.’ And<br />

my boss was like, ‘Oh, do you want to go?’<br />

And I was like, ‘What do you mean? Of<br />

course I want to go.’ So I got on a train like<br />

two days later … and I went to this red<br />

carpet,” Ross said.<br />

Since then she has been to many<br />

red-carpet events and interviewed people<br />

like Chris Hemsworth and eventually Mariska<br />

Hargitay. She stayed with E! News<br />

after graduating from BU in 2021 and<br />

then made the move to People Magazine .<br />

“I am doing work for both the print and<br />

digital side of the magazine,” Ross said.<br />

“I get to help with the three big entertainment<br />

teams, which is TV, music and<br />

movies.”<br />

Most recently she reported on the <strong>2023</strong><br />

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moments on the red carpet and award<br />

winners such as Samara Joy who won Best<br />

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While she is in the digital writing and<br />

print side of journalism right now, she<br />

said might return to the broadcasting side<br />

again.<br />

“I think about why I wanted to get in<br />

journalism in the first place … my agenda<br />

was to tell good stories and I do feel like<br />

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times four<br />

By Mark Aboyoun<br />

Magazine Staff<br />

The Lynnfield hockey team (10-0-1)<br />

is off to a flying start this season. And if<br />

you’ve gone to a game, you might have<br />

seen multiple players with the same<br />

last name on more than one occasion.<br />

You weren’t going crazy – the Pioneers<br />

currently have four sets of siblings on the<br />

varsity team.<br />

Jack and Jay Carpenter, Drew and<br />

Dylan Damiani, John and Michael<br />

Marenghi, as well as Aidan and Will Norton<br />

are all on the team and contributing<br />

to the hot start. Even on the bench, head<br />

coach Jon Gardner and associate coach<br />

Jason Gardner are twins.<br />

Senior captain Drew Damiani recently<br />

picked up his 100th career point off of an<br />

assist from, guess who, his brother Dylan.<br />

“It was awesome to be able to get<br />

that huge milestone and have it be from<br />

my brother in the rink that we grew up<br />

playing together in. [It] was just special,”<br />

Drew Damiani said. “[It’s] something I’ll<br />

never forget.”<br />

As for the on-ice chemistry, it was in<br />

full effect.<br />

“You know the next move he’s going to<br />

make and where the puck is going to go,”<br />

Drew said. “It makes everything click that<br />

much easier.”<br />

Another milestone occurred this year<br />

in a 4-1 win over Groton Dunstable as<br />

Aidan Norton scored his first varsity goal<br />

– assisted by his twin brother Will.<br />

“He [Will] was going down the corner<br />

and I went through,” Aidan said. “He<br />

found me because of the chemistry – he<br />

knew exactly where I would be.”<br />

Despite the bonds on the ice, it’s the<br />

bonds off it that Jon Gardner likes the<br />

most.<br />

“It creates a nice family environment,”<br />

Jon Gardner said. “If you’re friends with<br />

the older brother, then you’ve known the<br />

younger brother his whole life and his<br />

friends, too. Everyone knows each other.”<br />

Drew Damiani and Aidan Norton both<br />

described the team as “one big family.”<br />

“We’ve always played together, we<br />

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During practice, Drew and Aidan<br />

weren’t shy in admitting they can “be<br />

annoying” to their brother when they have<br />

the opportunity.<br />

“You always take that chance. It’s just<br />

making them better,” Drew said. “We’re<br />

here to play hockey and to play the sport<br />

we love.”<br />

“Sometimes Will and I will get mad at<br />

each other for a bit, but we move past it<br />

and keep on going,” Aidan said.<br />

The coaching staff keeps an eye out to<br />

make sure no one takes unnecessary shots<br />

at their sibling. Jon Gardner mentioned<br />

that if the Norton twins get into it, they’re<br />

“pretty good at catching themselves now.”<br />

“It’s good though. They’re holding their<br />

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Lynnfield Fire Department Capt. Kevin<br />

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By Ryan Vermette<br />

Magazine Staff<br />

Capt. Kevin Mutti of the Lynnfield<br />

Fire Department has worked<br />

on a multitude of different vehicles<br />

in his lifetime.<br />

Before becoming a firefighter, he<br />

had worked on dirt bikes, muscle<br />

cars, motorcycles, you name it. However,<br />

when he became the mechanic<br />

for Lynnfield Fire, becoming the<br />

caretaker of a 1914 Ford Model<br />

T fire truck was certainly a new<br />

experience.<br />

Before joining the force in 2004,<br />

he had pursued a career in carpentry.<br />

He and his brother opened and ran<br />

a business, K and M Automotives,<br />

together and worked on a number of<br />

vehicles there for a few years.<br />

“I’ve always been playing with<br />

mechanical vehicles,” Mutti said.<br />

That passion and experience<br />

fixing and tinkering with vehicles<br />

helped Mutti begin his career as a<br />

fire mechanic. Though he seemed to<br />

be committed to a career in carpentry,<br />

Mutti was intrigued by firefighting,<br />

and when Peter McGonell of<br />

Lynnfield Fire invited him down to<br />

the station for coffee, he realized he<br />

could have it both ways.<br />

“We were just hanging around<br />

and I really enjoyed being in this<br />

atmosphere and he encouraged me<br />

to apply,” Mutti said.<br />

McGonell, who was the depart-


SPRING <strong>2023</strong> | 23<br />

ment's mechanic at the time, not only<br />

invited him to apply, but helped Mutti<br />

learn how to drive and work on the<br />

truck along with former firefighter<br />

Kenny Burnham. When McGonell retired,<br />

he became the next mechanic for<br />

Lynnfield Fire, and subsequently took<br />

over the reins of the century-old truck.<br />

"They were the ones that taught me<br />

how to drive it,“ he said. ”When Peter<br />

retired, I got hired full time as the Fire<br />

Department mechanic, and that’s kind<br />

of how I ended up with it."<br />

The truck is stored at the department’s<br />

South station on Salem Street.<br />

Its small body is tucked away in the<br />

corner of the garage behind a much<br />

larger modern-day fire truck that<br />

would be unrecognizable to those that<br />

drove the now-antiquated engine.<br />

The truck’s red body paint is lighter<br />

than that of the modern truck, but the<br />

gold finish on the very front and on<br />

the bell, which is front and center just<br />

beyond the seating, gives it a classic<br />

touch.<br />

The engine roars when Mutti gets it<br />

running after a few attempts and lets<br />

it idle on four thin, wooden-spoked<br />

wheels.<br />

Any truck that is nearly 110 years<br />

old is likely to have somewhat of a<br />

unique story. When the town of Lynnfield<br />

was two separate communities,<br />

an owner of a nearby business that is<br />

no longer legal today, decided to make<br />

a donation of two Model T trucks to<br />

each of the towns’ fire departments.<br />

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with Lynnfield Fire ever since.<br />

Mutti said the truck may have<br />

“disappeared” a few times in the mid<br />

1900’s, but has always made its way<br />

back. Now, he cleans and maintains<br />

the ModelT, and teaches others how to<br />

drive it.<br />

Surprisingly, the most difficult of the<br />

three, Mutti said, is teaching people<br />

how it operates.<br />

“It is so different from anything<br />

you drive today,” said Mutti. “Your<br />

gas pedal is actually on the steering<br />

column, your brake is where your gas<br />

pedal would be, your reverse is a pedal<br />

where your brake would be. It can be<br />

confusing when you haven’t driven it<br />

for a while.”<br />

With no computers, no chips, and<br />

no extra parts that take weeks to be<br />

shipped from overseas, Mutti said<br />

maintaining the truck is actually relatively<br />

easy.<br />

Mutti gets the parts that are needed<br />

from two main locations, including<br />

a magazine specifically for Model T<br />

parts. His other source is a mechanic in<br />

Maine who has a barn full of parts for<br />

the truck.<br />

“It’s so simple compared to today's<br />

vehicles. You have to make sure it has<br />

fuel, make sure it has oil, and just make<br />

sure the tires have air. It’s pretty simple<br />

to maintain because it’s so basic,”<br />

Mutti added.<br />

Now with two decades of driving<br />

and fixing the historic truck, Mutti is<br />

preserving it not only for the next mechanic<br />

who takes over, but as an iconic<br />

piece of the town for parades, or even<br />

when he takes it a mile down the road<br />

for a spin.<br />

As a carpenter-turned-fire-mechanic<br />

who took over the reins of an original<br />

Model T fire truck, Mutti says he has<br />

had a great time since he became its<br />

caretaker and loves the historic impact<br />

it has on the town.<br />

“I’ve enjoyed it. I enjoy bringing it<br />

out and having people see it. You get<br />

a lot of beeps and waves when you're<br />

driving it. I think people enjoy seeing<br />

something that old on the road, and<br />

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Driving a 109-year-old truck is a lost<br />

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26 | <strong>01940</strong><br />

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Magazine Staff<br />

Lynnfield isn’t widely known for its<br />

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As the channel’s name might suggest,<br />

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and has recorded himself hiking, walking,<br />

and paddling across the region,<br />

including along the Independence<br />

Greenway in neighboring Peabody, the<br />

Ipswich River, and Lynnfield’s own<br />

Patridge Island. He posts videos of his<br />

adventures to the YouTube channel and<br />

to a website of the same name.<br />

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COYOTES, continued on page 28<br />

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Paddle was born out of a love for outdoor<br />

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for now. The YouTube channel began<br />

when Fantone obtained a license allowing<br />

him to fly a drone in 2018, which<br />

he has subsequently renewed twice.<br />

He posted his first YouTube video in<br />

February of 2019.<br />

One of the very first things Fantone<br />

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“With a drone, I can get up over the<br />

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thing and show people how nice it's<br />

going to be once we finally get that<br />

finished,” he says. “That was one of the<br />

first things I used the drone for.”<br />

The majority of the videos Fantone<br />

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what they might encounter while<br />

walking along a trail in the area. He<br />

explains that he sets out with a camera<br />

and records himself as he walks along<br />

the trail, before speeding the video up<br />

and posting it to YouTube.<br />

“I like to go walk where people can<br />

walk and video what it is like to walk<br />

there,” he says. “I try to document<br />

the walk and that includes video and<br />

pictures of each location. The video is<br />

not the most cinematic video, usually<br />

it's me just walking down the trail but<br />

I wanted to capture what it's like to<br />

actually walk down the trail. That was<br />

the best way to illustrate that.”<br />

The videos have evolved as Fantone<br />

has finetuned his style. Each trail<br />

video now features music underneath<br />

the footage of the walk, as well as<br />

still photos interspersed to point out<br />

interesting or notable landmarks, and<br />

captions pop up every so often to tell<br />

the viewer something he hopes will be<br />

“informative.”<br />

Fantone’s fascination with the outdoors<br />

dates back as far as his childhood,<br />

where school teachers would<br />

often find that he had wandered off<br />

into the woods.<br />

“I've always liked to be outdoors. I've<br />

always liked to get out on the water<br />

or go for a walk,” he says. “This really<br />

helped me capture my hobby, and do<br />

something productive with it.”<br />

And productive it has been.<br />

Since the channel launched, Fantone<br />

has posted more than 70 videos, racked<br />

up more than 350 subscribers, and garnered<br />

nearly 58,000 views. He says the<br />

channel doesn’t make him any money,<br />

and is simply a labor of love.<br />

Some of Fantone’s most popular recent<br />

videos are those documenting the<br />

wildlife in the area. He explains that<br />

he does so by setting up trail cameras<br />

in a particular area — be it Reedy<br />

Meadow, the Lynnfield Woodlot, or<br />

the Ipswich River — and then simply<br />

waiting for wildlife to pass by. Fantone<br />

himself doesn’t stake out the wildlife,<br />

which often appears in the early hours<br />

of the morning, instead employing<br />

motion-detecting cameras attached to<br />

trees to get snapshots of all sorts of<br />

animals, primarily beavers, coyotes, and<br />

deer.<br />

Steve Fantone, owner of Hike Walk<br />

Paddle, places a trail camera in<br />

Reedy Meadow Conservation Area<br />

with the hopes of getting videos of<br />

wildlife.<br />

He said he scopes out trees with evidence<br />

of beaver activity, like those that<br />

have been gnawed on.<br />

“I set them up in various locations in<br />

the woods and I leave them out for four<br />

to seven days and then I go back and I<br />

collect them and I see what they've got<br />

on them,” Fantone explains.<br />

Fantone says he has no plans to slow<br />

down Hike Walk Paddle.<br />

“I plan to visit more location, I plan<br />

to make better videos of older videos,<br />

new versions, and I plan to try new formats<br />

like the 360 virtual reality videos,”<br />

he says. "That's what's on the horizon<br />

for me. I really like the wildlife trail<br />

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What derived in 2019, during the<br />

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his sisters made stockings for the Ruth<br />

Kelley Ummis House (RKUH), a program<br />

that provides housing and intensive<br />

case management to women and children<br />

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and their children are spending their<br />

Birthdays.<br />

“Over the summer it kind of dawned<br />

on me, I wonder what they are doing for<br />

their birthdays,” said Cook.<br />

Cook, a 17-year-old senior from Lynnfield<br />

High School and a hockey player for<br />

the Captain team wears the number 17 in<br />

each one of his sports jerseys in honor of<br />

his uncle Michael who wore the number<br />

17 while he played Hockey and Football<br />

at the high school and college level.<br />

Cook’s uncle, passed away from an<br />

accidental overdose just five years ago, in<br />

his honor, the Think of Michael Foundation<br />

was born, with the purpose to<br />

provide scholarships in sober homes, raise<br />

awareness, eradicate stigmas, and support<br />

individuals affected by substance abuse.<br />

“I’ve heard so many great things about<br />

him during sports, so I thought I could<br />

play the same way he did and dedicate<br />

every game to him,” said Cook.<br />

Humble and bashful, with no interest<br />

in accolades, Cook’s monthly trip to<br />

RKUH to deliver birthday bags with everything<br />

for children and women to celebrate<br />

their birthdays, from cake mixes,<br />

party favors, paper goods, steamers, and<br />

books. Cook understands what brought<br />

him to RKUH to deliver the birthday<br />

bags was number 17.<br />

“As I stood in the quiet Roxbury<br />

neighborhood, I realized that number<br />

17 brought me there. When playing<br />

sports and going about my life, this grit,<br />

BIRTHDAY, continued on page 32<br />

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“Number 17 has led me on my journey<br />

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Laura Brodigan traces her fashion love<br />

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PHOTOS: LAURA BRODIGAN<br />

From Lynnfield<br />

to BROdenim<br />

By Alexandra Rodriguez<br />

Magazine Staff<br />

When it comes to knowing all it takes<br />

to be a successful entrepreneur in the<br />

modern world, Lynnfield's Laura Brodigan<br />

knows precisely what it takes.<br />

In just five years, Brodigan founded<br />

a personalized clothing brand worn in<br />

sporting events across the United States<br />

where fans and family members of athletes<br />

wear their favorite teams and players<br />

through one-of-a-kind pieces - BROdenim.<br />

Brodigan's entrepreneurial life began at<br />

a young age when Brodigan created jewelry<br />

pieces and sold them at local fairs.<br />

“I’ve always had that entrepreneurial<br />

background, and I think, in Lynnfield,<br />

that's where I kind of had my first experience<br />

with that, doing the jewelry and selling<br />

it at the pumpkin patch fair and other<br />

local fairs in the area,” said Brodigan.<br />

“And then, when I went to college, I<br />

started another business, a babysitting<br />

company. Following another entrepreneurial<br />

endeavor, and then post-college a<br />

few years later, I sort of broke down. So<br />

I kind of always had that entrepreneurial<br />

spirit and I didn't necessarily know where<br />

I'd end up or what I'd be doing, but I<br />

always knew that I wanted to run my<br />

own business and be my own boss,” added<br />

Brodigan.<br />

Brodigan studied finance and marketing<br />

at Boston College’s Carroll School of<br />

Management. She quit her job in finance<br />

to pursue her career in fashion with<br />

BROdemim.<br />

What was at one point a creative outlet,<br />

turned into a job, when Brodigan made a<br />

customized jacket for a friend as a gift and<br />

people were asking her to make them one.<br />

“A lot of people after were asking me to<br />

make them one and you know, it wasn't<br />

really something that I was really interested<br />

in doing at the time. But as it got<br />

more and more people asked me to do it,<br />

I started making a few more and sending<br />

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34 | <strong>01940</strong><br />

BRODENIM, continued from page 33<br />

them out to people on social media entrepreneurs<br />

and yeah, that's kind of how it<br />

began. You know, it was something I fell<br />

into,” said Brodigan.<br />

Her drive, ambition, and willingness to<br />

take the risks others won’t take brought<br />

BROdemin to work with prestigious<br />

brands in on-site events and corporate<br />

and talent gifting across the country.<br />

With a pop-up shop in Tampa, Florida,<br />

and a seasonal Nantucket store that is<br />

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is in the process of opening a new store in<br />

Martha’s Vineyard this summer.<br />

In her online store, customers can shop<br />

anywhere from denim jackets, sweaters,<br />

blazers, T-shirts, and even handbags, all<br />

customized to the customers liking with<br />

custom patches to custom client-designed<br />

creations.<br />

“I really enjoy creating pieces, fashionable<br />

sports pieces for women because<br />

I feel like you know, there's not a ton<br />

of really fashion-forward pieces being<br />

offered to them and it's something that I<br />

really enjoy creating and I really feel like,<br />

through these pieces, they're so custom<br />

and individualized that people are allowed<br />

to really tell their stories through the<br />

items that they wear,” said Brodigan.<br />

When it comes to Brodigan, sweaters<br />

are her most-worn item, “for me, sweatshirts<br />

are always fun, adding the patches<br />

on to them can be really cute especially<br />

if you're able to dress it up. The jackets<br />

are also great, especially if you have like<br />

a particular event to wear them to,” said<br />

Brodigan.<br />

According to Brodigan, pursuing your<br />

true passion while staying true to who you<br />

are and your vision for your business, is<br />

key to the success of a business. With new<br />

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are things that helped with the success of<br />

her brand.<br />

Not only does Brodigan offer customized<br />

clothing for the sports industry, but<br />

she also offers a wedding collection with<br />

customized clothing for their special day,<br />

“ I had a few friends that were getting<br />

married so I made them jackets for their<br />

weddings and definitely saw that there<br />

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brides would want fun pieces to show<br />

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SPRING <strong>2023</strong> | 35<br />

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Boston Garden, was a class act off<br />

the court, and a fierce competitor<br />

on it.<br />

PHOTOS: ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

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character<br />

at its finest<br />

By Joey Barrett<br />

Magazine Staff<br />

Chris Ford was a lot of things. A husband, father,<br />

grandfather, member of the Boston Celtics – you name it.<br />

And through all of his life experiences, there seemed to<br />

be one constant – in the game of life, there weren’t many<br />

characters better than Ford.<br />

Ford died in a Philadelphia hospital on Jan. 17 at the<br />

age of 74. No official cause was given, but Ford suffered a<br />

heart attack earlier in January.<br />

Ford played for the Boston Celtics and won a championship<br />

in 198. After retiring in 1982, he was an assistant<br />

CHARACTER, continued on page 38


38 | <strong>01940</strong><br />

CHARACTER, continued from page 37<br />

coach for the Celtics for seven seasons,<br />

helping Boston reach two more<br />

championships (1984, 1986) alongside<br />

Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and other<br />

green-wearing greats.<br />

Years later, Ford replaced Jimmy<br />

Rodgers as the Celtics’ head coach for<br />

five seasons – beginning in 1990.<br />

He also lived in Lynnfield for several<br />

years. One of his neighbors on Melody<br />

Lane, and retired sports medicine<br />

surgeon Jeff Polansky, said Ford was<br />

“a wonderful guy” who was always<br />

“straightforward about what’s right and<br />

what’s wrong.”<br />

“I’m still so sad, still,” Polansky said.<br />

“I’m shocked.”<br />

Alongside his wife Kathy, Ford has<br />

four children: Christopher, Katie,<br />

Anthony, and Michael. Polansky<br />

commented on how involved Ford was<br />

with his children, and also remembers<br />

a specific story from when Ford was<br />

coaching a Peabody-Lynnfield youth<br />

basketball team.<br />

Regardless of what some parents<br />

wanted, Ford made sure every kid<br />

played the same amount of minutes<br />

“regardless of their ability.”<br />

By the time the season was said and<br />

done – and despite mixed emotions<br />

on the strategy – Ford’s team won the<br />

whole thing. A chuckling Polansky said<br />

Ford took all of his players along, while<br />

other teams just brought the stars.<br />

“He [Ford] insisted that every child<br />

be given a fair chance,” Polansky said.<br />

“The world would be better if everyone<br />

adhered to his code of coaching – or<br />

ethics.”<br />

Jeff ’s wife, Sue, also used the word<br />

“shocked” when describing her reaction<br />

to the news.<br />

“It gives me goosebumps because it’s<br />

the end of an era,” Sue Polansky said.<br />

“[He was] very involved with the community<br />

when he was around.”<br />

She noted Ford’s impact on youth<br />

basketball teams, adding Ford was<br />

“awesome” and “very calm” with the<br />

kids.<br />

“They were lucky to have a professional<br />

basketball coach coaching their<br />

little 11-year-old basketball team,” Sue<br />

Polansky said.<br />

Ford was also involved with the<br />

Wayne Embry Basketball Camp alongside<br />

Lynn native Dennis Skeadas – who<br />

said the news “was like getting hit with<br />

a ton of bricks.”<br />

When asked about Ford, the first<br />

thing Skeadas said was “he’s like your<br />

neighbor.” Whenever there was a<br />

problem, or whenever Skeadas needed<br />

advice, Ford was his man.<br />

“It wasn’t because he was a Boston<br />

Celtic,” Skeadas said. “It was because<br />

we just became friends, and we cared<br />

about each other’s family.”<br />

In the world of basketball, Ford left<br />

Former Celtics head coach and<br />

Lynnfield resident Chris Ford scans<br />

the court on Boston's bench.<br />

his footprint on the game. He was<br />

credited with the league’s first threepoint<br />

basket, averaged 15.6 points per<br />

game his first season in Boston, and<br />

played college basketball for Villanova<br />

before being drafted by the Detroit<br />

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By Mark Aboyoun<br />

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Kathryn Price is a Lynnfield resident<br />

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It wasn’t until after college that she<br />

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Kathryn Price in the middle of the<br />

finishing the Chicago Marathon.


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started to get into distance running.<br />

“I liked the atmosphere and the comradery<br />

that comes with it,” Price said.<br />

Fast forward and Price is back doing<br />

what she used to do in high school<br />

- relays. Except this relay was a lot<br />

longer and more meaningful.<br />

After the Boston Marathon bombings<br />

in 2013, Price learned about a<br />

country-wide relay called the “One Run<br />

for Boston." A run that started in Los<br />

Angeles and finished in Boston. People<br />

around the country could sign up and<br />

take part in the run across the country.<br />

“I was particularly touched by it,”<br />

Price said. “I’ve seen the Boston Marathon<br />

so many times in person and I felt<br />

like the running community was my<br />

people.”<br />

“I signed up to run two legs in the<br />

area I grew up in southwestern Connecticut,”<br />

Price said. "Then I signed<br />

up to run the final leg in Boston that<br />

started in Newton and finished at the<br />

Boston Marathon’s finish line.”<br />

Through the Facebook group dedicated<br />

to this relay, people were raising<br />

money for the "One Fund Boston" for<br />

the victims of the bomings. This is<br />

where Price learned about Abbott.<br />

“It kind of just piqued my interest,”<br />

Price said. “I started to follow it and<br />

in the meantime, I got inspired by the<br />

group and ended up signing up for the<br />

Los Angeles Marathon. I fundraised<br />

for a charity in Los Angeles that supports<br />

people with HIV and AIDS.”<br />

After Los Angeles, Price’s next race<br />

was in Philadelphia. Price insists she’s<br />

“not a fast runner," but enjoys the<br />

aspect of running and says “the pride is<br />

in the completion."<br />

In 2015, Price lost her grandmother<br />

and decided to complete the Abbott<br />

majors to honor both her grandmother<br />

and uncle’s memories.<br />

Since then, Price has run five of the<br />

six majors with Tokyo the only one left<br />

on the list. In 2020, Price was signed<br />

up to run the Tokyo Marathon, however,<br />

due to the pandemic, Price was<br />

given a deferral.<br />

Between the time Tokyo canceled<br />

the marathon, the pandemic did not<br />

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but the marathon eventually got<br />

canceled. Despite it getting canceled,<br />

runners were able to run the marathon<br />

“virtually” allowing Price to run it with<br />

her sister.<br />

“My sister and I ran the course unsupported.<br />

It was a really cool experience,”<br />

Price said. “In 2021, everyone<br />

who ran the virtual marathon was able<br />

to run it in person.”<br />

Price was registered to run the Tokyo<br />

Marathon in <strong>2023</strong> due to the referral.<br />

However, she chose not to run this year.<br />

“I was worried about paying to travel<br />

there and then having the possibility of<br />

it being shut down again,” Price said. “I<br />

decided to just reenter the lottery for<br />

next year.”<br />

Price brings her family to all of her<br />

races which was another factor in her<br />

deciding to postpone the Tokyo trip.<br />

However, Price may not need to rely<br />

on the lottery as she signed up to run<br />

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will automatically be eligible for next<br />

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When asked what marathon was her<br />

favorite, Price said that was “hard to<br />

answer” because they all mean something<br />

different.<br />

“London was meaningful because we<br />

got to visit my granny’s hometown,”<br />

Price said. “My mom and dad came<br />

[along with] my sister and her whole<br />

family. It was just an emotional day.”<br />

“My favorite course to run was probably<br />

New York because it is really well<br />

supportive there,” Price said. “There is<br />

always someone cheering you on there.<br />

There is nowhere on the course where<br />

someone is not cheering you on, which<br />

is really motivating.”<br />

“Running Boston was probably the<br />

best. It is such a storied course. We had<br />

friends come on the course too, it just<br />

felt really special. Especially coming<br />

off of covid and being lucky to be out<br />

there,” Price said.<br />

Price is set to earn her sixth star next<br />

year and finish an incredible achievement.<br />

So far, only 8,147 people in the<br />

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so many years. I’m going to miss being<br />

part of something that is larger than<br />

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