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3 A n c h o r a g e L a n e , “ T h e A n c h o r a g e ” , M a r b l e h e a d<br />

Listing Agent:<br />

Traci Howe | 617.510.4341<br />

traci.howe@saganharborsidesir.com<br />

This magnificent waterfront property offers the privacy that Bradlee Road and Fluen Point are known for with<br />

breathtaking views of Marblehead, Beverly Farms, Baker’s Island and beyond. Enjoy the daily sights of passing<br />

schooners and the Boston Ferry from multiple private decks. The iconic stonework coupled with the shinglestyle<br />

design makes this home stand out. A stone staircase leads to a large bluestone terrace and gardens,<br />

connecting both the main house and a separate Guest Cottage. The first floor, perched over the water, was<br />

designed to maximize the stunning views. The property offers spacious formal entertaining areas, yet it retains<br />

the warmth of a family home. The sunny modern kitchen has direct access to outdoor dining on both the<br />

waterfront deck and the stone terrace. A cozy family room with a stone fireplace and corner window seating<br />

completes the living space on the main level.<br />

The second floor includes a luxurious primary suite with an ocean-view balcony and three ensuite guest rooms,<br />

one of which doubles as a woodpaneled office. The third floor offers a secluded home office perched high<br />

above the sea.<br />

The lower level is open concept and includes a family room, exercise area, sauna, wine cellar and direct garage<br />

access.<br />

The charming guest cottage, directly on the ocean, has one bedroom, a living room, a sunny kitchen and a large<br />

private deck. The property also features a sandy beach, private pier, deepwater dock, and beautifully<br />

landscaped grounds.<br />

"LET OUR FAMILY HELP YOUR FAMILY WITH YOUR REAL ESTATE NEEDS!”<br />

Traci Howe<br />

617.510.4341<br />

Wells Howe<br />

781.771.9820<br />

Jean Carlson<br />

617.930.7984<br />

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781.775.5785<br />

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One Essex Street, Marblehead MA <strong>01945</strong> | 300 Salem Street, Swampscott MA 01907


FALL <strong>2024</strong> | 3<br />

1 7 C r o w n i n s h i e l d R o a d , “ S e a s i d e F a r m ” , M a r b l e h e a d<br />

This magnificent oceanfront estate stands as one of the most significant<br />

properties in Marblehead. Located in the exclusive Peach’s Point<br />

neighborhood, the property offers stunning views of Crowninshield<br />

Island, Grace Oliver’s Beach, Marblehead Lighthouse and the surrounding<br />

islands. “Seaside Farm” replaced the original Crowninshield estate in<br />

1998 in a classic Georgian style, with meticulous attention to detail<br />

throughout. The home is designed to maximize ocean views while<br />

maintaining privacy.<br />

The grand 2-story foyer with a custom staircase sets the tone for the<br />

home, which features elegant living spaces ideal for both daily life and<br />

entertaining. The second floor includes an oceanfront primary suite with<br />

a fireplace, walk-in closet, modern bathroom and a private deck with<br />

exceptional views. Three additional en suite bedrooms, a large office,<br />

and a laundry room complete the second floor. A hidden staircase leads<br />

to a substantial private roof deck which overlooks the ocean and the<br />

grounds.<br />

Car enthusiasts will appreciate the heated 4-bay garage with a 1-<br />

bedroom caretaker’s apartment above. The 1.8-acre property features<br />

spectacular formal gardens, a secluded heated pool and a greenhouse<br />

that doubles as a pool house. It also offers 1,000+ feet of ocean<br />

frontage, a private sandy beach and a private pier with dock.<br />

Listing Agent:<br />

Traci Howe | 617.510.4341<br />

traci.howe@saganharborsidesir.com<br />

One Essex Street, Marblehead MA <strong>01945</strong> | 300 Salem Street, Swampscott MA 01907


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A publication of Essex Media Group<br />

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Chief Executive Officer<br />

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Directors<br />

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News Editor<br />

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Contributing Editors<br />

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Writers<br />

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Kelan Flynn<br />

Sophia Harris<br />

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INSIDE<br />

06 What's up<br />

08 Bigger boat<br />

10 Marblehead classics<br />

14 Full bloom<br />

20 Bird's-eye view<br />

24 House Money<br />

26 Living on<br />

30 Rock-solid<br />

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FROM THE PUBLISHER<br />

TED GRANT<br />

Still meeting<br />

the Challenge<br />

Ten years ago, no one thought about dumping a pail of ice water on their own head. At least not<br />

sane people.<br />

Then, former St. John's Prep and Boston College baseball player Pete Frates of Beverly, who had<br />

been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) two years earlier, helped come up with a<br />

novel idea. Why not challenge people to do exactly that: Get others to pledge money so they could<br />

dump a bucket of ice-cold water all over themselves in the name of ALS research.<br />

The idea went viral. Celebrities, athletes, politicians and just about everyone else filmed themselves<br />

pouring ice water over their heads, whether they had pledges or simply to identify with, and show<br />

support for, Frates and Pat Quinn – Frates' companion in creating the challenge. In the first year<br />

alone, the drive raised $115 million.<br />

ALS results in the progressive loss of both upper and lower motor neurons that normally control<br />

voluntary muscle contraction. It first came into prominence in 1939, when baseball star Lou Gehrig<br />

was stricken with ALS and died two years later. Since then, ALS has also been referred to as "Lou<br />

Gehrig's Disease." By any name, it is incurable.<br />

Frates died in December 2019, and Quinn a year later. But 10 years after the launch, the cause and<br />

the challenge live on with Frates’ Marblehead family. Pete’s wife, Julie, a BC alumna, whom he met<br />

and married in Marblehead, enjoys watching the next generation learn “what those silly Ice Bucket<br />

Challenges were all about.”<br />

Oh, and their 10-year-old daughter, Lucy, will run to do an Ice Bucket Challenge whenever she<br />

can. Joey Barrett has the story.<br />

Also in this edition of <strong>01945</strong>, we tune into the rock 'n' roll term "garage band," which was born<br />

in the 1960s because the combos taking shape needed a lot of space to practice and to confine their<br />

ear-splitting music. So they practiced in somebody's garage. These days, the storage unit at 12R<br />

Atlantic Ave. has become the place for local bands to hone their chops. Benjamin Pierce has the<br />

story.<br />

I’m not a true car guy because I focus only on how they look. My favorite car of all time is the<br />

1947 MG – in British Racing Green, of course. I love all iterations of the Porsche 911 (preferably<br />

black on black). Range Rovers were right up there until the current model, which underscores my<br />

long-held belief that engineers do things because they can, not because they should. I’ve leased five<br />

or six Rovers, but my current one will likely be my last because engineers thought it a good idea for<br />

these things to drive themselves. No, thanks. I’d prefer to let the driver, you know, drive. Shifting<br />

is now an ordeal (and I’m talking automatics) and it has some mechanism in which it slams on its<br />

own brakes as if it thinks the driver doesn’t understand the concept of stopping. Mine almost caused<br />

a three-car pileup at the intersection of Ocean and Atlantic because it evidently thought we three<br />

drivers couldn’t master the maneuver of two cars going left and one going straight. We didn’t need<br />

the car’s help. Again, let the driver drive.<br />

But if you're a true car guy, check out Sophia Harris’ story about the Marblehead Cruise In, which<br />

meets monthly with 50-80 cars on display and draws attendees from all around the area. Her story is<br />

the journalistic equivalent of the ’47 MG.<br />

Maybe you like mushrooms. If you do, check out Sophia’s feature on Benjamin and Kimberly<br />

Crowninshield. They've been foraging for mushrooms for 10 years, and they conduct tours and teach<br />

how to find the best mushrooms for eating.<br />

The Marblehead Shark Club started in 2016 and teaches children about marine life. Recently, it<br />

deployed a buoy to track great whites. Sophia has that story, too.<br />

It was a big summer for the YMCA Children's Island Day Camp, as it serviced nearly 1,500<br />

campers. Adam Levine chronicles that Island adventure.<br />

The Marblehead Garden Club, housed in the Jeremiah Lee Mansion, has been helping to keep the<br />

town green and beautiful since 1936. Kelan Flynn’s story will grow on you.<br />

And then there’s our cover story.<br />

It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words.<br />

Spenser Hasak’s aerial photos of Marblehead prove it.<br />

COVER An aerial view of Marblehead. STAFF PHOTO Spenser Hasak.


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Originally four lots with two grand residences, this direct waterfront home was owned by the same<br />

family, including the head of the Lipton Tea Company from 1880-1990. Truly a spectacular property<br />

with the perfect smaller “tea house” at the tip of the point to enjoy a morning or evening drink. The lots<br />

were subdivided in 1991, and 405 Ocean Avenue now sits perched on a double lot totaling 1.82 acres,<br />

with potential for further subdivision. The home is surrounded by trees shaped by the sun and wind,<br />

rocky ledges (the lower woods), unique mature plantings and an easement to a small beach. It also has<br />

stunning 360-degree views of the Atlantic Ocean, Marblehead Rock, Children’s Island, Castle Rock Park,<br />

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WHAT'S UP<br />

Massachusetts in the<br />

Women's Suffrage<br />

Movement<br />

What: Barbara Berenson, a<br />

professor at Harvard Law School,<br />

will present a talk on her book<br />

“Massachusetts in the Women's<br />

Suffrage Movement.” The state was<br />

at the epicenter of the national<br />

struggle for women's rights. Many<br />

activists from American Women's<br />

Suffrage Association, which was<br />

based in Boston, led campaigns<br />

across the Commonwealth and<br />

were opposed by men who did not<br />

want to allow women to vote.<br />

Where: This talk will be held at<br />

the Marblehead Museum at 170<br />

Washington St.<br />

When: The talk will take place on<br />

Wednesday, Sept. 18 from 7 to 8 p.m.<br />

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Lifebridge’s ‘A Night<br />

to Remember’ gala<br />

What: Lifebridge North Shore<br />

is hosting its annual “A Night to<br />

Remember” gala, which supports<br />

the work the organization does for<br />

homeless and vulnerable individuals<br />

across the region. The gala will<br />

feature music by Marblehead-based<br />

Better Than Nothing, along with<br />

appetizers, a bar sponsored by<br />

Groom Construction, and a candy<br />

bar sponsored by Lucia Lighting.<br />

The evening will feature the Fund<br />

a Need initiative, which focuses<br />

on raising funds to purchase<br />

a community van to expand<br />

Lifebridge’s outreach.<br />

Where: The gala will be held at the<br />

Peabody Essex Museum at 161 Essex<br />

St. in Salem.<br />

When: The gala will be held on<br />

Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m.


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From classic rock to musicals, kids shows to comedy, 80’s & 90’s pop to hip-hop, there’s a show for<br />

everyone at the Lynn Auditorium. Grab a pair of tickets, make a reservation at a local restaurant and you’ve<br />

got a night out right here in downtown Lynn!<br />

Mayor Jared Nicholson - Ex. Director James Marsh<br />

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might need a bigger boat<br />

Members of the Marblehead Shark Club learn about<br />

how baby oysters grow to the adult stage, and how<br />

to keep the oyster upweller tank in good<br />

working order.<br />

Story: Sophia Harris<br />

Photography: Bryan Burns<br />

Bryan Burns started the<br />

Shark Club in 2016 and<br />

has been educating children<br />

about marine life ever since.<br />

He said it all started with<br />

receiving funding for a<br />

receiver buoy supplied by the<br />

Atlantic White Shark Conservancy<br />

on Cape Cod.<br />

In collaboration with AWSC,<br />

Marblehead Community Charter<br />

Public School offers a year-long shark<br />

enrichment program for its students,<br />

hosted by Burns.<br />

In the program, students<br />

learn about shark biology;<br />

research-technology systems; data<br />

analytics; navigation and mapping;<br />

and the potential impacts the<br />

presence of apex predators can bring<br />

to the local environment, according to<br />

the club’s website.<br />

The club is assisted by a<br />

shark-tracking buoy that helps it<br />

monitor shark activity right in its<br />

backyard. The buoy, MH1, lives<br />

a quarter-mile off the coast of<br />

Children’s Island.<br />

The buoy tracks great white sharks<br />

that swim within 200 yards of the<br />

receiver. There might also be other<br />

sharks that swim by that the buoy is<br />

not able to detect.<br />

AWSC offers a tracking app called<br />

Sharktivity. The data is collected<br />

from many sources, including its<br />

buoy array, spotter plane, and<br />

app-user reportings of in-person<br />

sightings of great white sharks in<br />

the area, the MH1 receiver’s website<br />

states.<br />

Friends of Marblehead Public<br />

Schools helped fund the $3,000 buoy<br />

and Rich Jordan, the founder of<br />

Jordan’s Marine, helped place it.<br />

“Jordans is extremely supportive in<br />

what we do, including helping us put<br />

the receiver in position every spring,”<br />

Burns said.<br />

The buoy has reported 21<br />

detections of great white sharks off<br />

the coast of Marblehead. At the time<br />

of its installation, in 2016, it was<br />

the first receiver buoy in the North<br />

Shore to be a part of the AWSC’s<br />

network.<br />

Burns said he uses the buoy to help<br />

educate children about the<br />

great-white-shark population.<br />

One of the largest sharks the buoy<br />

has tracked is Marianne. She passed the<br />

buoy in 2017, and at that time was 14<br />

feet long and weighed 2,800 pounds.<br />

Two other sharks, Gillie and Cool<br />

Beans, visited Marblehead in 2018.<br />

Burns said Marianne has gotten<br />

larger since then.<br />

“She’s probably 16 feet by now.<br />

That’s a really big fish,” Burns said.<br />

He said the students in the Shark<br />

Club built a life-size replica of her<br />

when she was 14 feet long.<br />

Burns has had many speakers come<br />

to the Shark Club to talk about their<br />

professional experience, including<br />

AWSC Education Director Marianne<br />

Walsh, who is also the namesake<br />

of Marianne the Shark. She said<br />

that when the Shark Club was<br />

first formed, its members reached<br />

out to the AWSC and said they<br />

were looking for some educational<br />

programming for the students.<br />

Walsh started the AWSC as a


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Baby oysters rest<br />

on a fingertip.<br />

Great white shark<br />

Marianne, as<br />

filmed by Skomal<br />

during tagging<br />

operations.<br />

Sammy Burns<br />

attends the<br />

open house at<br />

Northeastern<br />

University's marine<br />

science center in<br />

Nahant.<br />

Club members Sammy, Benny, and Marianne Walsh<br />

stand in front of a replica of the great white shark<br />

Marianne, which is named after Walsh.<br />

volunteer and then was able to join<br />

full-time. She said she grew up in<br />

Massachusetts.<br />

“So the ocean has always been<br />

a passion of mine, and now being<br />

able to spread messages about ocean<br />

conservation and connect families and<br />

youth to the wildlife off our coast is a<br />

super exciting opportunity,” Walsh said.<br />

She visited the charter school and<br />

held educational programming for<br />

the students so that they could learn<br />

more about the buoy and understand<br />

its importance.<br />

Walsh said one of the goals of her<br />

programming is to “really generate<br />

awareness” about great white sharks.<br />

“We also want to change the<br />

perception of sharks. We want<br />

people to understand their role in<br />

our ecosystem, and how they play a<br />

critically important role in the ocean<br />

environment,” Walsh said.<br />

She said several of the club's<br />

programs included learning about the<br />

shark-tagging process and the shark's<br />

autonomy.<br />

“Then the kids understood how the<br />

tag worked with the receiver that we<br />

deployed off the coast of Marblehead,<br />

so the equipment that was going in<br />

the water the students were following,<br />

(they) could understand how it<br />

worked,” Walsh said.<br />

At the Shark Club, the learning is<br />

not restricted to just sharks. Burns<br />

said the club also grows oysters and<br />

has done so for the past six years.<br />

He said when the club receives<br />

the baby oysters, they are the size of<br />

pepper flakes.<br />

After the oysters reach their full<br />

size, the club releases them with<br />

the Massachusetts Oyster Project, a<br />

nonprofit that helps with oyster-reef<br />

restoration.<br />

Burns said each year, the club raises<br />

and donates approximately 60,000<br />

oysters.<br />

The Shark Club will continue<br />

this fall. Burns holds one meeting<br />

each week for 45 minutes.<br />

For more information, visit<br />

Marbleheadshark.com. 45


10 | <strong>01945</strong><br />

CLASSICS<br />

Story: Sophia Harris<br />

Photography: Spenser Hasak<br />

Marblehead is a place for interesting<br />

and eye-catching cars. But where<br />

do people get to show them off?<br />

The Christmas parade… maybe?<br />

But if you want to see a wide variety of<br />

cars, some dating from the 1920s and<br />

some that are not even old enough to<br />

drive yet, you have to visit the Marblehead<br />

Cruise In, which was started by a group of<br />

young men with a love for cars.<br />

Held on the scenic waterfront of Ocean<br />

Avenue, the monthly event hosts cars of<br />

all makes and models.<br />

Enthusiasts gather, proudly representing<br />

their cars and the stories that precede<br />

them, and talking shop with anyone who<br />

strolls by.<br />

The car show takes place between April<br />

and September on the first or second<br />

Tuesday of every month. The event was<br />

started by Tucker Beatty and his friend<br />

Nick Parente.<br />

The idea, which started as a small<br />

birthday bash for Beatty, now hosts<br />

approximately 50 cars “on a good day,”<br />

Beatty said. On the busiest days, it has<br />

hosted more than 80 cars.<br />

“We have always felt that there was an<br />

appetite for a fun little car show around<br />

here,” Beatty said.<br />

He said they both have Land Rovers<br />

(Beatty’s is named Nigel) and, after<br />

hosting a car show for Beatty’s birthday<br />

a couple of years ago, they thought<br />

they should open it up for the entire<br />

CARS, continued on page 12<br />

Sid Tracy plays the violin while sitting in the driver's<br />

seat of his 1966 Excalibur during the Cruise In.<br />

Spectators at the Cruise In<br />

check out a Porsche 944.<br />

A clean<br />

wheel of Joe<br />

Moccia's 1974<br />

Corvette<br />

Stingray.


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CARS, continued from page 10<br />

community.<br />

What started out as a way for<br />

his friends to come together has<br />

turned into a spectacle for the entire<br />

community.<br />

Jimmy McCarriston, who was<br />

representing a silver 1997 E36 BMW<br />

and also helped get the car show off<br />

the ground, said he and his friends<br />

would place business cards on the<br />

windshield of “cool cars” in order to<br />

bring awareness to their mission and<br />

get people interested.<br />

He was also in attendance at Beatty’s<br />

birthday party and said that over pizza,<br />

he and his friends thought, “Wait, we<br />

could make this into a car show.”<br />

Beatty said the car shows have come to<br />

be known by the entire community for a<br />

“really weird and crazy” variety of cars.<br />

“It's kind of a melting pot for<br />

whatever you like. Whatever you're<br />

into, there'll be something here that<br />

you would be interested in,” he said.<br />

Here are just some of the stories car<br />

enthusiasts come to share at the Cruise In:<br />

Michael Lafayette represented a<br />

1931 Deluxe Roadster. He said he and<br />

Tom Blackler, who is president of the<br />

Marblehead Old Car Club, worked on<br />

the car for three years “to bring it back<br />

from the dead.” This included replacing<br />

the gas tank, which caught the car on<br />

fire the day it was delivered.<br />

Lafayette said the car's nickname<br />

is the Flaming Coffin. “It went from<br />

being on fire to a beautiful car,” he said.<br />

Blacker started the Old Car Club more<br />

than 20 years ago and has been repairing<br />

and restoring “old cars” since then.<br />

A special-edition 1993 Jaguar XJS<br />

was proudly represented by Bob DiLisio.<br />

He said there were only 66 made of the<br />

vehicle and it only has 35,000 miles.<br />

“I have always wanted an XJS with<br />

a five-speed transmission and I finally<br />

found one,” he said.<br />

Michael Smith was representing a<br />

1929 Ford Model A Tudor. He said his<br />

favorite memory of the car has been<br />

representing it in the town’s Christmas<br />

parade.<br />

“It’s a lot of fun,” he said. “Everyone<br />

is there for a good time, and that's<br />

definitely been my favorite thing so far.”<br />

William Tracy, better known in the<br />

community as Uncle Sid, is the original<br />

owner of an Excalibur SSK, made by<br />

Attendees<br />

of the Cruise<br />

In gather<br />

around a<br />

group of<br />

antique cars.<br />

Automobiles Inc. in Milwaukee, which<br />

he bought in 1966 for $5,700. The<br />

company made 200 cars a year for 10<br />

years, he said.<br />

He said the car was used in<br />

“Bewitched,” a sitcom that originally<br />

aired for eight seasons on ABC<br />

between Sept. 17, 1964 and March<br />

25, 1972 and starred actress Elizabeth<br />

Montgomery.<br />

Tracy said the show paid him $100<br />

that week to use the car, “which was a<br />

lot of money back then.” The show paid<br />

his brother, who was in high school at<br />

the time, $50 a day to drive the car on<br />

and off the scene for the shoot. 45<br />

A vintage Porsche<br />

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Carrera) parked at<br />

Riverhead Beach<br />

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of Edward Poulin's<br />

1965 Pontiac GTO.


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Deep in one of<br />

the Jeremiah Lee<br />

Mansion gardens,<br />

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clears away sticks<br />

and debris.<br />

Marblehead in full bloom<br />

Story: Kelan Flynn<br />

Photography: Spenser Hasak<br />

The Marblehead Garden<br />

Club sticks to a strict list of<br />

historically accurate plants in the<br />

Jeremiah Lee Mansion gardens,<br />

like this fall phlox.<br />

As tenders of the Jeremiah Lee<br />

Mansion, the Marblehead<br />

Garden Club has lovingly<br />

maintained its greenery and<br />

vegetation since 1936, and its<br />

members showcase dedication<br />

and care in their gardening pursuits.<br />

The Lee Mansion, built in 1768,<br />

was home to Jeremiah Lee, a wealthy<br />

shipowner and merchant.<br />

Lee, who was active in government,<br />

served as colonel of the town’s militia<br />

and helped prepare for conflicts<br />

with the British military during the<br />

Revolutionary period, alongside the<br />

likes of John Hancock and Samuel<br />

Adams.<br />

The mansion is now owned by the<br />

Marblehead Museum.<br />

The garden contains multiple smaller<br />

gardens, including its birdbath, sundial,<br />

and perennial gardens.<br />

A hydrangea.


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C E L E B R AT I N G 4 0 Y E A R S !<br />

Vicki Boyle, the club’s president,<br />

has been involved with the club for<br />

more than 10 years and noted that its<br />

membership is storied. Some members<br />

have been with the club for more than<br />

40 years, which Boyle said “keep(s) our<br />

longtime history alive and well.”<br />

Boyle said that since the club’s main<br />

mission is tending to the Jeremiah Lee<br />

Historic Garden, it is unique from<br />

other garden clubs.<br />

Boyle finds the role of president of<br />

the club to be both challenging and<br />

rewarding.<br />

“It poses many unique situations and<br />

responsibilities,” she said.<br />

Boyle said that her background<br />

in business management led her to<br />

think she might be a good fit as the<br />

club’s president, but she enjoys being a<br />

volunteer and sees the role as a way to<br />

give back to the town she loves.<br />

Boyle’s interest in gardening started<br />

during her childhood in the Midwest,<br />

where she tended to the food and<br />

flowers that grew in her maternal<br />

grandmother’s garden. She eventually<br />

taught her daughters about gardening<br />

after they moved to the Southwest.<br />

Upon relocating to the East Coast,<br />

Boyle spent a decade in florist shops,<br />

honing her floral-design skills.<br />

Boyle said that work in the garden is<br />

varied, and includes weeding, pruning,<br />

and planting.<br />

“All our members are not afraid to<br />

get a little soil under their fingernails,”<br />

she said.<br />

Garden Advisor and Garden Head<br />

Mary Krull said that her interest<br />

in gardening began shortly after<br />

relocating to Marblehead, when she<br />

would read gardening catalogs on<br />

the train to work in Boston in the<br />

mornings.<br />

“As I got more familiar with the<br />

photos and descriptions, I felt like I<br />

had to have them all,” Krull said of the<br />

catalogs.<br />

While her interest in gardening<br />

blossomed from the catalogs, her time<br />

to get in the weeds with the plants<br />

dwindled as her children grew up,<br />

but Krull returned to gardening after<br />

retiring.<br />

Krull spends her time in the garden<br />

keeping up with issues that might<br />

affect it, such as beech leaf disease<br />

and Asian jumping worms, and<br />

researching plants to ensure they are<br />

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Residents and Garden Club members<br />

attend the annual plant sale.<br />

PHOTOS: MARBLEHEAD GARDEN CLUB<br />

An entrance<br />

to the garden.<br />

GARDEN, continued from page 15<br />

of 1768.<br />

Krull’s favorite part of the garden<br />

is the newly installed Sundial<br />

Garden, which she said looks and<br />

feels very fresh.<br />

Kim Maxwell, a longtime member<br />

of the Garden Club and head of its<br />

Perennial Garden, said that she didn’t<br />

get into gardening until later in life,<br />

but remembers being captivated<br />

by a greenhouse as a child after a<br />

snowstorm, with its red infrared lights<br />

glowing.<br />

Maxwell’s mother and grandmother<br />

were members of the Garden Club<br />

before her, and when she finally joined,<br />

she was excited and ready to learn.<br />

The garden is home to members<br />

of different ages, all of whom are<br />

knowledgeable in their own ways about<br />

gardening and all of whom possess a<br />

passion for it.<br />

“We work together and always have<br />

some fun while knee-deep in dirt,”<br />

Maxwell said.<br />

Maxwell said that no experience<br />

is necessary to join the club, but<br />

prospective members should expect<br />

to serve the community even in the<br />

months when no gardening takes place.<br />

She said that in the months when<br />

members are not gardening, they serve<br />

the community in other ways, helping to<br />

decorate the King Hooper Mansion at<br />

Christmas, holding wreath workshops,<br />

and holding the club’s annual<br />

fundraising event, the Plant Sale. 45<br />

Paeonia lactiflora,<br />

commonly known as<br />

the Chinese peony,<br />

planted by the<br />

Garden Club.<br />

Lobelia cardinals, commonly<br />

known as the cardinal flower,<br />

planted by the Garden Club.


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Bird’s eye view<br />

of Marblehead<br />

By: Spenser Hasak<br />

One day while we were in pre-production for this<br />

edition of <strong>01945</strong>, News Editor Sophia Harris sat<br />

down with me and asked a question.<br />

“Hey, what do you think about a photo spread of<br />

Marblehead scenes taken from an airplane?” she said.<br />

My response was an eye-roll and “Yeah, that’d be so<br />

cool, but with whose plane?”<br />

Spenser Hasak takes a picture of<br />

Marblehead from the air.<br />

Fast-forward a few weeks and I found myself at<br />

Beverly Regional Airport with Harris, her father, Adam,<br />

and his Cessna Skyhawk.<br />

I’ve never flown in a small aircraft (and I’m terrified<br />

of heights), so I’ll admit that there was a split-second<br />

internal freakout as Adam showed me the ins and outs of<br />

the plan, but I quickly got over it because I understood<br />

what an incredible opportunity this would be.<br />

Takeoff was a breeze, and in minutes we were flying<br />

over Marblehead Harbor. We circled over the town five<br />

times, with me practically hanging out the window of<br />

the plane while 1,100 feet above the ground. It was<br />

fascinating to watch life below me unfold as I took in<br />

the view, all the while capturing images.<br />

People wandering around Chandler Hovey Park, young<br />

sailors being given a lesson, finishing touches being put<br />

on Piper Field, a fishing boat hauling in its catch, and, of<br />

course, the famous Abbot Hall were just some of the things<br />

I was able to capture from this unique, bird’s-eye view.<br />

For some of the photos, I decided to lean into the<br />

oddity of this assignment by adding a tilt-shift miniature<br />

effect to the images. By photographing from a high<br />

angle and blurring out parts of the image in<br />

post-production, the scenes were transformed into a<br />

miniature diorama of life in Marblehead.<br />

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A line of brightly colored<br />

sailboats in Marblehead Harbor.<br />

A boat tows along a tube<br />

in Marblehead Harbor.<br />

Boats fill<br />

Marblehead<br />

Harbor.


22 | <strong>01945</strong><br />

Golfers practice on<br />

a putting green at<br />

Tedesco Country Club.<br />

Chandler<br />

Hovey Park.<br />

Cars travel down the<br />

causeway toward<br />

Marblehead Neck.<br />

People gather on the<br />

dock at Crocker Park on<br />

a warm summer's day.


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A large boat sails<br />

through the water near<br />

Marblehead Harbor.<br />

The new<br />

turf at Piper<br />

Field stands<br />

out while<br />

flying over<br />

Marblehead<br />

High School.<br />

Corinthian<br />

Yacht Club.<br />

Spenser Hasak stands in front of<br />

Adam Harris' Cessna Skyhawk.<br />

The salt marsh of the<br />

Goldthwait Reservation.


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26 | <strong>01945</strong><br />

A hero's story lives on<br />

Story: Joey Barrett<br />

Photography: Julie Frates<br />

If you turned on ESPN this past<br />

August, you might’ve seen a wide<br />

exterior shot of Marblehead. That’s<br />

because it’s been 10 years since<br />

Pete Frates changed the trajectory<br />

of ALS research with the infamous<br />

Ice Bucket Challenge.<br />

The documentary cut to a third<br />

grade classroom inside of Glover<br />

School. There, Marblehead students<br />

were talking about Frates, who grew<br />

up in Beverly, attended St. John’s Prep,<br />

played baseball at Boston College, and<br />

both met and married his wife, Julie, in<br />

Marblehead. Pete died in 2019.<br />

In August of 2014, Frates launched<br />

one of the most successful fundraisers<br />

of all time, inspiring more than 17<br />

million people around the world to<br />

dump ice water on their heads and<br />

donate to an ASL organization. The<br />

challenge not only raised awareness<br />

of the disease, but it generated more<br />

than $115 million to support the<br />

ALS Association nationally. The total<br />

number was closer to $220 million<br />

worldwide.<br />

Julie said it means the world to her<br />

that the next generation is seeing “what<br />

those silly Ice Bucket Challenges were<br />

all about.”<br />

“Now, we’re going to pass this torch<br />

to you,” she said. “To see our daughter<br />

(Lucy) and all of these younger kids<br />

doing it – those who didn’t experience<br />

the original Ice Bucket Challenge – it’s<br />

really great to see. It’s invigorating for<br />

us to have more people involved.”<br />

Julie was born and raised in town<br />

and attended Marblehead High School.<br />

Now, she remains local with Lucy, who<br />

turned 10 years old this past summer.<br />

“She came at the end of the<br />

challenge 10 years ago,” Julie said.<br />

“It’s a lot. She’s lived a much more<br />

mature life than most 10-year-olds.<br />

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his wife, Julie, and<br />

daughter, Lucy,<br />

in 2017 wearing<br />

Boston College<br />

gear. Pete and Julie<br />

both attended BC.<br />

She has seen a lot and is very in-tune,<br />

but certainly has a lot of excitement to<br />

participate in an Ice Bucket Challenge<br />

whenever there’s one around.”<br />

When asked what she hopes Lucy<br />

takes from Pete’s legacy, Julie pointed<br />

to a sense of community.<br />

“That’s the best part of humanity,<br />

that sense of community and giving<br />

back,” Julie said. “I hope she appreciates<br />

that. There are always people out there<br />

who could use help.”<br />

It’s her hope, not just for Lucy, but<br />

for an entire generation. Julie added<br />

that Boston College, St. John’s Prep<br />

and other institutions have been “very<br />

receptive.”<br />

“It’s so cool to see,” she said. “They<br />

really want to help. Personally, it’s so<br />

heartwarming. And for the cause, it’s<br />

heartwarming to see that these efforts<br />

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“With all of the things people say<br />

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is that Pete was a very normal high<br />

school kid. He did some good things.<br />

That means he got into trouble every<br />

once in a while, and that means he was<br />

a goofball every once in a while. I think<br />

what Pete has done really shows what<br />

it means to be a servant leader.”<br />

Julie added the documentary was<br />

“very emotional,” and credited ESPN<br />

for its coverage on Pete throughout<br />

the years. On top of that, Fenway Park<br />

hosted a celebration featuring a special<br />

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“To be where Pete did it, especially,<br />

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Better Than Nothing<br />

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A rock-solid<br />

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Story: Benjamin Pierce<br />

Photography: Emma Fringuelli<br />

The facility located at<br />

12 R Atlantic Ave. is a<br />

hidden gem for music in<br />

Marblehead. Tucked behind<br />

Shubie’s Marketplace, it is<br />

the practice headquarters<br />

for some of the town’s most<br />

passionate musicians.<br />

Owned by Marblehead Hardware’s<br />

Fred Ferris and Karl Smith, the pair<br />

recently began renting the space to local<br />

bands. Lifelong residents Paul Haggett,<br />

Sam Bennett, Johnny Reardon, and Brad<br />

Treadwell make up Acme, a cover band<br />

that has been a presence in Marblehead<br />

for more than 60 years. The group has<br />

taken up a more-or-less permanent<br />

residence in the building’s back room,<br />

which is decorated with a poster of<br />

them from the past.<br />

Haggett learned about the practice<br />

location through Smith, who he knew<br />

beforehand.<br />

“It’s a dream for us. We got all of our<br />

equipment in here and we just come in,<br />

turn everything on, and start playing,”<br />

Haggett said. “We don’t have to lift<br />

or schlep anything… We have like the<br />

Cadillac of setups.”<br />

Bennett recounted the band’s origins,<br />

which date all the way back to when he<br />

and Treadwell sang “I Saw Her Standing<br />

There” by the Beatles in front of their<br />

third-grade class in 1963. Haggett<br />

joined the group later in life when he<br />

approached the band after a performance<br />

at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church.<br />

“Paul came up to the stage and said,<br />

‘You need a bass player,’” Bennett said.<br />

Haggett quickly added that he did<br />

not even know how to play bass, but<br />

wanted to learn.<br />

The group was rehearsing especially<br />

hard on Wednesday, Aug. 21 for an event<br />

on the following Saturday. Brian Ware was<br />

filling in for Reardon. They emphasized<br />

how the facility has made it easier for<br />

them to play together consistently.<br />

“It’s so hard to find a place where<br />

you can actually play and play loud,”<br />

Treadwell said.<br />

Better Than Nothing’s six members<br />

occupy the facility Tuesday nights,<br />

however lead vocalist and guitarist<br />

Craig Smith would argue his band’s<br />

name does not reflect how they feel<br />

about the practice facility. Along with<br />

Smith, Forrest Rodts, Kim Hutchinson,<br />

Bill Quigley, Michael Smerka, and Tom<br />

Eskrine make up the group that has<br />

now been together for 18 years.<br />

“Just a bunch of folks who started<br />

getting together on a Tuesday night. We<br />

just started playing and things started to<br />

sound good,” Craig Smith said.<br />

Craig Smith explained that Ferris<br />

and Karl Smith’s opportunity to play<br />

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longer an option.<br />

“We were the first band in there,”<br />

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was another storage unit with guitar<br />

and drums and stuff in there, and then<br />

another one, and another one. It’s really<br />

kind of neat that it’s turned into this<br />

little local band rehearsal space.” 45


FALL <strong>2024</strong> | 31<br />

12R Atlantic Ave. has<br />

quickly become an unlikely<br />

haven for musicians.<br />

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32 | <strong>01945</strong><br />

Story: Sophia Harris<br />

Photography: Kimberly Crowninshield<br />

A spring peeper sits on<br />

a blue/green staining<br />

fungus (Chlorociboria<br />

aeruginascens).<br />

marvelling at<br />

Hidden deep in Lynn Woods<br />

are edible delights, some<br />

only to be seen by the<br />

trained eye.<br />

These fungi can be deceiving,<br />

many times tricking people into<br />

eating what might not be edible.<br />

That's why it is important to<br />

forage with trained professionals<br />

while hunting for mushrooms.<br />

Husband-and-wife team<br />

Benjamin and Kimberly<br />

Crowninshield have been<br />

foraging for mushrooms for 10<br />

years and conducting tours for<br />

three. They know exactly how<br />

to find the best mushrooms<br />

for eating, having eaten every<br />

mushroom before deeming it safe<br />

for the public to enjoy.<br />

Both born and raised in<br />

Marblehead, where they currently<br />

live, the Crowninshields venture<br />

to Lynn Woods for free parking,<br />

a lack of bugs, and an abundance<br />

of mushrooms. They also<br />

occasionally host tours in Beverly<br />

Commons conservation area,<br />

earlier in the year.<br />

They've identified over 100<br />

mushroom species from Essex<br />

County and have a passion for<br />

unique, local flavors. Their tours<br />

can be scheduled via Facebook,<br />

and they typically give two to<br />

five per month.<br />

While they love sharing their<br />

passion for nature and living<br />

Ben holds a silky rosegill mushroom. Honey mushrooms. Kimberly Crowninshield holds up<br />

a giant cluster of hen of the woods.


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An apple bolete, or Frost's bolete.<br />

off the land, Kimberly said there is<br />

just something about sharing their<br />

passion with the next generation to<br />

come that inspires them.<br />

“The more people that are<br />

interested, the more people are<br />

trying to protect our forests,” she<br />

said. “I feel like we will be better off<br />

in the future. So I love it when kids<br />

come on the tours.”<br />

During their tours, they also teach.<br />

They emphasize the importance<br />

of knowledge in foraging and the<br />

abundance of edible mushrooms<br />

in their area. They can answer<br />

practically any questions you would<br />

have about mushrooms or even how<br />

to cook them.<br />

Living off the land is important<br />

to them, Benjamin said, “We are so<br />

lucky living here because we have<br />

such an incredible variety that you<br />

can find in the forest.”<br />

A purple coral mushroom.<br />

This all started because of<br />

Kimberly’s eye for nature and<br />

photography.<br />

She became very interested in<br />

macro nature photography, or taking<br />

close-up pictures of really small things,<br />

like slime molds, moss, and insects.<br />

“Once you're crawling around<br />

on the ground taking pictures of<br />

small things, you start notitcing<br />

mushrooms,” Benjamin said. “And<br />

then you start taking pictures of<br />

those. And we really wanted to<br />

make sure that every time she<br />

posted a picture we could ID what<br />

was being posted, preferably down<br />

to the species level, but at the least<br />

the genus.”<br />

He said the pair would often find<br />

out that one of their discoveries was<br />

supposed to be a delicious, edible<br />

mushroom. “And then the next<br />

time we come across it, we bring it<br />

Bolete eater mold on a chestnut bolete.<br />

home and eat it. And it just kind of<br />

snowballed from there.”<br />

Their knowledge doesn't end in<br />

the woods. They also keep a running<br />

list of recipes that they have made<br />

and tried with the mushrooms they<br />

have found.<br />

Some of their favorite dishes<br />

include fried chicken of the woods,<br />

stinkhorn pot pies, and beefsteak<br />

mushroom tartare.<br />

They also make jellies, fruit<br />

leathers, and cakes from various<br />

foraged ingredients.<br />

Benjamin and Kimberly said they<br />

plan to write a cookbook in the<br />

future with all of the ingredients<br />

found right in your backyard.<br />

To book a tour or see some<br />

of Kimberly’s award-winning<br />

photography, reach out to them<br />

on Facebook at Crowninshield<br />

Photography. 45<br />

An ant drinks water from a pixie cup lichen.<br />

Cepaea hortensis on Auriscalpium ulgare climbs to<br />

Cladina rangiferina. In other words, a white lipped garden snail<br />

on a pinecone mushroom climbing to reindeer lichen.


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'THE<br />

NEVERLAND<br />

FOR KIDS'<br />

Story: Adam Levine<br />

Photography: Maria Spencer<br />

Five days a week every summer,<br />

at 9 a.m. — or 8 a.m. for<br />

some — campers from around<br />

the world spend 15 to 20<br />

minutes traveling from Salem<br />

or Marblehead to the YMCA’s<br />

Children’s Island Day Camp.<br />

Brian Flynn, executive director of<br />

the Lynch/Van Otterloo YMCA in<br />

Marblehead, said the camp serviced<br />

nearly 1,500 campers this year, ranging<br />

in age from 5 to 15 years old.<br />

Campers come from nearby towns<br />

and cities, or travel from across the<br />

world to spend their summers in<br />

Marblehead, and more importantly,<br />

Children’s Island, he said.<br />

For the younger campers who might<br />

have trouble leaving their parents, their<br />

worries go away once they get on the<br />

boat, Flynn said.<br />

“Once they're out there, they're<br />

making friends and they're making<br />

memories,” he said. “It sounds so<br />

simple, but Children's Island truly<br />

Children await the arrival of the Hannah<br />

is magical because kids are laughing,<br />

Glover at the end of the camp day.<br />

smiling, playing, and making genuine<br />

connections with other kids of their<br />

own ages.”<br />

Even for the 30 to 40 counselors a community and a space to engage in Trap said his time at Children’s<br />

who work on the island, most being and feel really excited to be a part of,” Island, both experiencing the camp<br />

around 16 to 20 years old, it is still a he said. “Something special I found and creating experiences for others as a<br />

children’s island.<br />

about Children's Island is, on one counselor, helped him with his role in<br />

“It is the ‘Neverland’ for kids — and hand, you have this really rich tradition the Peace Corps.<br />

for our staff too,” Flynn said.<br />

of lifers, who their parents went to He said “the ability to create this<br />

He estimates nearly 90% of the staff Children's Island, now they're going to beneficial, exciting, enjoyable space<br />

Children's Island. But it was also super where you're actually learning how to<br />

this season were once Children’s Island<br />

welcoming for people like me who are be yourself and who you are, and how<br />

campers themselves.<br />

brand new.”<br />

to interact with everybody” is at the<br />

“Everyone in Marblehead has a<br />

Trap attended Children's Island<br />

core of Children’s Island.<br />

Children's Island story. It's so beloved<br />

his first summer in Marblehead and<br />

These themes were present during<br />

and everyone just has this attachment<br />

eventually worked as a counselor from<br />

his time at Children’s Island and in the<br />

to it,” Flynn said. “People that have<br />

Peace Corps, Trap said.<br />

spent 15 to 16 years of their life… his sophomore year of high school until<br />

“Personally, I take away the reminder<br />

this is basically their home away from his sophomore year of college, he said.<br />

to slow down and focus on community<br />

home.”<br />

After college, he joined the Peace<br />

in a sense of place,” Trap said,<br />

Bridger Trap, 31, said he grew up Corps and was stationed in Panama for<br />

reflecting on his experiences. “It taught<br />

in rural Colorado until he moved to four years, where he worked in youth<br />

me to just stop… and appreciate where<br />

Marblehead when he was 12 years old. development and focused on setting up<br />

“It’s one of the first places I found summer camps.<br />

CAMP, continued from page 36


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I was in the moment. And I think<br />

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Flynn said the YMCA purchased the<br />

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Coming up on the camp’s 70th<br />

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PHOTO: BRIDGER TRAP

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