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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 />
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One Essex Street, Marblehead MA <strong>01945</strong> | 300 Salem Street, Swampscott MA 01907
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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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10 Marblehead classics<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.
Lynn Auditorium<br />
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Coming to the...<br />
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 />
LynnAuditorium.com<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
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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 />
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and off the scene for the shoot. 45<br />
A vintage Porsche<br />
911 SC (Super<br />
Carrera) parked at<br />
Riverhead Beach<br />
for the Cruise In.<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 />
Betsy Koopman<br />
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 />
not anachronistic with the time period<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 />
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the Chinese peony,<br />
planted by the<br />
Garden Club.<br />
Lobelia cardinals, commonly<br />
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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 />
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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 />
Enjoy! 45
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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.
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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 />
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Adam Harris' Cessna Skyhawk.<br />
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Goldthwait Reservation.
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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 />
Pete Frates with<br />
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 />
aren’t going to die.”<br />
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That means he got into trouble every<br />
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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 />
Ice Bucket Challenge to honor the<br />
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“To be where Pete did it, especially,<br />
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people are still thinking about ALS<br />
and donating to the cause, recognizing<br />
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Better Than Nothing<br />
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A rock-solid<br />
place for practice<br />
Story: Benjamin Pierce<br />
Photography: Emma Fringuelli<br />
The facility located at<br />
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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 />
at their location came at a near-perfect<br />
time, as their previous spot was no<br />
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
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12R Atlantic Ave. has<br />
quickly become an unlikely<br />
haven for musicians.<br />
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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 />
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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 />
that's something that only a place like<br />
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Flynn said the YMCA purchased the<br />
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Coming up on the camp’s 70th<br />
anniversary, the island is going through<br />
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The first phase is fully funded<br />
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The YMCA is hoping to raise $2<br />
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Counselor Hannah Scott, left, and Bridger Trap on<br />
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PHOTO: BRIDGER TRAP