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FROM THE PUBLISHER
TED GRANT
A publication of Essex Media Group
Publisher
Edward M. Grant
Chief Executive Officer
Michael H. Shanahan
Directors
Edward L. Cahill
John M. Gilberg
Edward M. Grant
Gordon R. Hall
Monica Connell Healey
J. Patrick Norton
Michael H. Shanahan
Chief Financial Officer
William J. Kraft
Chief Operating Officer
James N. Wilson
Controller
Susan Conti
Editor
Thor Jourgensen
Contributing Editors
Gayla Cawley
Sophie Yarin
Writers
Hannah Chadwick
Allysha Dunnigan
Alena Kuzub
Jakob Menendez
Sam Minton
Anne Marie Tobin
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Alena Kuzub
Vanessa Leroy
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INSIDE
06 What's Up
07 Sophia's legacy
10 House Money
12 Crunchy Inc.
16 Stats at a glance
18 Sloan Style
20 Warwick Way
22 Santa stroll
24 Redd's racers
29 Shubie's due
30 MacMarblehead
32 Designing duo
35 A look back
36 Rock solid
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It's a
women's
issue
This edition of 01945 could easily be called The Women of Marblehead.
Kathy Walters, Molly Haley, Liv Dolce, Jennifer Lewis, Jaime Sloan, Silvia VIA
Leary, and Carol Shube. Each is interesting and, collectively, they make this edition
interesting.
Kathy Walters and Molly Haley were inspired 50 years ago by the womens'
movement to launch Handprints, a fabric-design business that created patterns and
designs for a wide array of clothing and commercial fabric products. Marblehead
Museum is honoring their legacy with a display dedicated to their dream. Hannah
Chadwick chronicles their story.
Liv Dolce decided the granola she fed her children for years was worth a shot as a
commercial venture, and thus was born Liv Healthy Gourmet Granola. Feast your
eyes on Ally Dunnigan's story.
MacRae's Sustainable Goods marks its first anniversary this month and Mike
Alongi's story details how Jennifer Lewis, who owns the Washington Street store,
has built success on the motto, "Feel good about buying from your North Shore
neighbor."
Warwick Cinema — another town icon — broadened its artistic reach this fall by
hosting an art exhibition featuring work by Lynn native Silvia VIA Leary, and
titled, "Women of Color in the Arts." Check out Ally Dunnigan's story.
Jaime Sloan, who grew up in town, rose like a phoenix from the ashes of her
former North Andover boutique to launch her store, Sanctum Style, at MarketStreet
Lynnfield, which is filled with au courant fashion. Anne Marie Tobin has her story.
On a sadder note, Sophia Smith lost her battle with cancer, but town residents
rallied to create the “Arms Around Sophia” scholarship in her memory. Sam Minton
has the story.
Not that this issue is devoted entirely to women.
Daniel Joseph Cedrone III, for instance, is the third-generation male in his family
to carry on the art of stone engraving and run Marblehead Memorial. See Alena
Kuzub’s story.
Sure, most boaters have hauled out their craft from Marblehead Harbor by late
fall, but the model boat racers who sail their 50-inch-long "yachts" on Redd's
Pond were still tacking and coming about on a miniature scale in October. Jakob
Menendez did double duty, writing and photographing this fun story.
Great stories all.
But back to the Women of Marblehead. Adhering to a truism that the way to my
heart is through my stomach, my favorite woman featured in this edition of 01945
is probably Carol Shube. Along with her husband, George, and son, Doug, Carol
Shube –– unbeknownst to her –– puts a smile on my face at least four times a week.
That’s because my favorite Marblehead woman (not featured in this edition –– until
this sentence, I guess) is a Shubiephile who undoubtedly has something purchased
at Shubie’s awaiting us for dinner. Maybe a meatloaf sandwich or a roast beef wrap
or a chicken breast with sriracha mayonnaise (a/k/a the orange stuff ) or . . .
I’m hungry. I have to go. Enjoy the women (and, I suppose, the men) of 01945.
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WHAT'S UP
Calling all artists
What: Design the 2022 Marblehead Festival
of Arts logo, with the winning design
displayed on organization merchandise,
signs, and web pages.
Where: Go to marbleheadfestival.org for
contest entry information.
When: The deadline for submitting entries
is Sunday, Nov. 28 at 5 p.m., with the
winning logo unveiled at a party scheduled
for January.
Get the pass
What: Abbot Public Library patrons can
reserve passes to some Greater Bostonarea
museums, zoos, and the New England
Aquarium.
Where: Passes may be reserved by visiting
abbotlibrary.org or by visiting the library
circulation desk, 235 Pleasant St., or calling
781-631-1481.
When: Check museum or other venue
websites for admission hours.
Spread some cheer
What: The annual SPUR Holiday Cheer
drive to provide winter essentials and
gifts to more than 600 area children is
underway.
Where: Visit the spur.community website
to make a tax-deductible Holiday Cheer gift
or to be a Bundle of Cheer sponsor.
When: Bundles of Cheer are due at the
SPUR office, 6 Anderson St., by Monday,
Dec. 6.
Many helping hands
What: Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor
supports the Marblehead Food Pantry as
part of the club's commitment to reducing
food insecurity.
Where: Visit rotaryclubofmheadharbor.org
for information on Rotary programs and
joining Rotary.
When: Check the website for the Zoom link
to tune into the Tuesday, 7:30 a.m. weekly
meetings.
400 years ago
What: "This Land is Their Land" chronicles
the Wampanoag Nation's ongoing selfdetermination
struggle preceding Plymouth
Colony in 1620 and continuing today.
Where: David J. Silverman discusses his
book during the Marblehead Museum's
Tuesday Evening Book Club. Go to
marbleheadmuseum.org to sign up for the
Zoom link.
When: Tuesday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m.

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Marblehead
continues to wrap its arms around
Sophia
By Sam Minton
Jennifer Smith, the mother of Sophia Smith, stands in the backyard of her friend and partner Tracy Ackerman's Marblehead home. Photos: Jakob Menendez
It has nearly been three years
since Sophia Smith died, but
her impact continues to live on
throughout Marblehead.
At 11 years old, Sophia was
diagnosed with a rare form of
pediatric cancer called diffuse intrinsic
pontine glioma (DIPG). There is currently
no treatment for this form of cancer in the
United States.
Sophia and her family had to go to London
in order to receive treatment, which was
not covered by insurance. Tracy Ackerman

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and four other friends of Sophia's mother,
Jennifer, began to help the family out with
fundraising to cover the cost of the trips.
A year after Sophia died, Jennifer knew
that she wanted to do something to honor
her daughter. Jennifer, along with Ackerman
and friends, came up with the idea to sell
holiday planters.
The goal was to make $1,000 in five
weeks, but Jennifer and her friends were
able to make $10,000.
In the early days, Jennifer kept her
daughter's diagnosis quite private due to
Sophia having two sisters, but once she
opened up, the town of Marblehead was
there to help. On top of giving gift cards to
the family, the community checked in on
the little things as well.
"(They would) make sure your lawn
was mowed — the things you don't think
about. Make sure you have groceries in your
refrigerator, make sure your sheets are clean
when you came home from London and
that just continued into this planter idea,"
said Jennifer.
People around town volunteered to
deliver planters as well as help Jennifer out
when she was really busy.
"I think it was her (Sophia) and her
personality that brought people together
and made them want to do nice things for
her because she was that kind of person,"
said Jennifer.
Jennifer was able to give out the first
"Arms Around Sophia" scholarship this
year. Students who were interested in
applying for the scholarship were asked to
write about their passion. The first winner,
Lucas Koughan, a Berklee College of Music
student, will receive $1,000 for four years
toward his education. 45

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Winter 2021 | 11
A peek inside
400 Ocean Ave.
SALE PRICE:$4,500,000
SALE DATE: October 29, 2021
LIST PRICE: $5,800,000
LISTING BROKER:
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SELLING BROKER:
Linda Costanzo Keller Williams Realty
Boston-Metro
LATEST ASSESSED
VALUE: $6,408,900
PROPERTY TAXES: $66,781
YEAR BUILT: 1896
LAST SALE PRICE:
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LOT SIZE:
.80 acres (34,848 square feet)
LIVING AREA: 6,298 square feet
BEDROOMS: 7
BATHROOMS: 5.5
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spacious master suite and six other
bedrooms. Multiple waterview
porches, meticulously-kept grounds
and a separate carriage house with a
two-car garage.

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Liv Dolce turned a
healthy family snack
into a multi-state
granola business.
Photos: Spenser Hasak
Gourmet
granola
for you
and me
By Allysha Dunnigan

Winter 2021 | 13
Liv Dolce has been making healthy, organic
granola for her four children for years,
but only recently did she decide to turn her
recipe into a brand.
Liv Healthy Gourmet Granola is now
on shelves in stores in Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, and New York, offering
customers granola laced with cinnamon and
sea salt as well as peanut butter and cacao.
Dolce got a degree in integrative nutrition
health coaching and went to training
and seminars to learn how what you put
into your body impacts you.
She had always been interested in food
and cooking, but saw how important it is
to eat healthy, low-sugar foods made with
good ingredients.
Liv Dolce offers two versions of her gourmet granola, which she sells at Shubie's and Crosby's in town:
Cinnamon Sea Salt and Peanut Butter Cacao.

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Liv Dolce mixes together a batch of Liv Healthy Peanut Butter Cacao Gourmet Granola as she works in the commercial kitchen of St. Michael's Episcopal Church
in Old Town.
When looking for low-sugar, healthy
snack options for her children, Dolce decided
to take it into her own hands — making
nutritious granola at home.
While this was easy and quick to make,
Dolce said her kids also loved it, which was
a plus.
She then began making granola for
her friends and for teacher gifts, and kept
getting good feedback.
"People would ask when I was making
it and ask for a bag or jar for them," Dolce
said.
In 2017, she sold her granola for the first
time through Instagram.
She posted about how she was making a
special batch for holiday gifts, and sold out
the 100 batches she made within 24 hours.
"It was exciting," Dolce said. "It kind of
felt like I was on to something."
Being busy with her young kids, she
continued to make the granola, but only for
holiday batches in December and teacher
gifts in June.
She then began to receive emails and
messages from people asking if they could
order more batches during times when she
wasn't making it.
Given all of the positive feedback she
received, she and her husband, James, talked
about making the granola into something
more than just a twice-per-year product.
"I logged that feedback and felt encouraged
and this past year, we decided to make
a go of it and see how it would do in a larger
market," Dolce said.
She began working out of the commercial
kitchen at St. Michael's Church in
Old Town and went through training and
licensing requirements to be able to take her
product to the market.
Liv Healthy Gourmet Granola first
started selling through farm direct co-op —
a CSA in Marblehead — in April and at
numerous farmers markets over the summer.
Dolce then got her wholesale license in
September, and now her granola is in 20
stores across New England.
Her husband is spearheading the sales
and is continuing to expand the stores that
carry the granola.
Dolce said her granola can be found primarily
in specialty markets and food co-ops
as well as in Crosby's, Shubie's, and Maria's
Gourmet.
The granola can also be found in the
lakes region in New Hampshire and New
York, because Dolce has family ties there.
"It's been very exciting," Dolce said. "It's
kind of surreal. I feel like we haven't picked
our heads up to acknowledge it yet."
Dolce said she is hesitant to be overly
excited because they need to make sure the
product sells at the stores, but so far, she said
the sales have been great.
"We've had reorders from pretty much
every store we're in," she said. "I think the
fact that it's a small, family-owned business
that's made right here in town is very
appealing to people."
While there are a number of granola
brands, Dolce said what sets hers apart is
the high-quality ingredients in the small
batches.
Her whole idea for the granola stemmed

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from her looking for other brands in the
store, and noticing that she didn't want the
products with canola oil or other processed
ingredients in what she's feeding her
children.
She wanted organic oats, more protein
and nuts, and ingredients that make a
difference when it comes to taste and health
benefits.
"When you're buying a batch of grocery-store
granola, you're not going to get
the same taste that you are when you're
buying one that was made and bagged in
the same town yesterday," Dolce said.
While she is still the only one making
the granola, she said determining what stage
and level they'll need to hire more people is
on the horizon.
In the process of learning the business
from the ground up, Dolce said it's fun to
see where every day takes them and they are
not going to overthink anything.
"Having the confidence in the product
and knowing — over the years of sharing it
and getting positive feedback — just knowing
while we may not know the industry, we
know we have a good product," Dolce said.
"That's given us the confidence to go for it."
Her original flavor, Cinnamon Sea Salt,
has a 50/50 ratio of nuts to oats, which she
said is higher than a typical granola and
adds more protein, lower carbohydrates, and
a higher level of healthy fats.
The label says "just sweet enough,"
which she said reflects the low sugar content
from maple syrup or raw honey so that it's
not overwhelming and can be incorporated
into a healthier diet.
She also uses organic chia, flax, and
hemp seeds in her granola, which she said
also amps up the health factor.
Her granola is also kid-approved with all
of its healthy fixings.
When selling at farmers markets during
the summer, Dolce said parents would come
up wary of granola, but when the kids tried
it and really liked it, she said it was the best
test.
Dolce is working toward sourcing all of
her products locally, speaking with someone
in Western Massachusetts to buy her syrup
and getting oats from Maine, but said the
nuts are difficult to purchase locally.
"I'm trying to move towards getting as
much locally as I can," she said. "I, in turn,
want to support local businesses."
Dolce set a goal this past spring to get
into Crosby's in the next year, so she said
dropping that shipment off in October was
huge.
"It will be really fun to see where it goes
from here," she said.
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Granola, visit www.livhealthynutrition.
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Marblehead
by the numbers
Population, 2010: 19,808
Population, 2020: 20,441
Percentage of female residents: 52.9 percent
Percentage of female residents 16 years and older working: 61.3 percent
Percentage of residents identifying as Black or African American: 1.6 percent
Percentage of residents identifying as Hispanic or Latino: 5 percent
Percentage of households with a language other than English spoken: 13.1 percent
Number of households, 2015-19: 8,122
Median value of owner-occupied home: $675,400
Persons per household, 2015-19: 2.51
Percentage of residents 65 years or younger with a disability: 3.1 percent
Percentage of residents who earned a bachelor's degree or higher: 71.3 percent
Percentage of residents without health insurance: 2.3 percent
Mean commuting time to work, 2015-19: 32.5 minutes
Median household income, 2015-19: $128,641
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Style is as Sanctum does
By Anne Marie Tobin
There has been no shortage
of challenges and adversity
during the COVID-19
pandemic — if you don't
believe it, just ask Jaime
Sloan.
Co-owner of Sanctum Style with her
husband Ryan McCarthy, Sloan runs an
upscale men's and women's boutique at
MarketStreet Lynnfield; her challenges
began long before the words "COVID-19,"
"coronavirus," "pivot," and "protocol," and
the acronyms "PPP" and "PPE" became
everyday parts of our pandemic vocabulary.
Sloan spent most of her childhood in
Marblehead before moving to Andover.
An Andover High graduate, Sloan and
McCarthy had recently moved back to
Massachusetts after living in New York City,
where she was a jack (and master) of all
trades, working in fashion and dabbling in
the performing arts as a playwright, opera
singer, and actor.
In the fall of 2017, Sloan opened Dani
Kaye, a small boutique-specialty store on
Main Street in North Andover. The name
was inspired in part by her experience in
opera.
"You know if you have your name in the
title, you are going to die, so there was no
way I wanted my store named after me," she
said with a laugh. "I also like the fact that
the Biblical name Daniel refers to God being
your judge and the word Kaye in Celtic
means keeper of the keys. I feel it's important
that you not get hung up on what people
think you should be. You have to own who
you are and be willing to take risks."
Sloan slowly built a solid customer base.
After just celebrating Dani Kaye's first anniversary,
everything came to a halt on Sept.
13, 2018 when the Columbia Gas Company
explosions literally rocked not only her
business, but her home life as well.
"I was in the store and then went out
for lunch and saw all these people on the
street," Sloan said. "Flames were shooting
out of the Chowder Factory building. I
scrambled to turn off all the valves before
we had to evacuate not just the store, but
our apartment. We literally had 10 minutes
to get our stuff out. We were freaking out
because we didn't know if there would be
smash-and-grab looting. It was terrible. The
stench of smoke was everywhere."
The following week, Sloan was in New
York City on a pre-planned spring buying
trip.
"I think I cried the whole time I was
there and was just a mess through the whole
show," Sloan said. "I had no idea if I still
had a business. My clients had lost their
homes. It was really scary. We had a long
battle with the adjusters and problems with
our landlord. It was just a disaster."
Despite the adversity, Sloan managed
to find a silver lining. She hit the road,
bringing her product to her clientele. When
she saw an unmet demand for protective
masks, she organized a group of sewers to
make masks. All told, she donated more
than 200,000.
"We met regularly at Dunkin' Donuts to
organize and it got to the point where fire
departments, nurses, people just wanted any
kind of mask they could find," Sloan said.
"It was such a wild time, but people needed
masks, so I drove everywhere picking up and
delivering. It got to the point where Ryan
said, 'Can you just please come home?'"
Sloan made the painful decision to
walk away from Dani Kaye when her lease
expired in July 2019.
"We just packed everything up and left,"
she said. "It was horrible. I was heartbroken.
I looked at other spaces but I wasn't going
to sign another lease in a pandemic without
a vaccine. I was also concerned about the
fact that cold weather was coming and I just
couldn't take on that risk."
As things began to settle down, Sloan
entertained thoughts of opening a popup
at MarketStreet. She took the plunge with
a full storefront, opening over Labor Day
weekend.
"It's remarkable that I was the first of
eight new businesses opening this fall,"
Sloan said. "I feel that a smaller business,
we're leaner and we can pivot easier and
quicker than larger retailers. It's great to see
so many people taking advantage of so many
opportunities."
Jaime Sloan, the owner of Sanctum Style at MarketStreet Lynnfield, rests her hand on a shelf that she and her husband built by hand with wood sourced from
the Portsmouth Naval Yard.
Photo: Jakob Menendez

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So far, so good, she says.
"Business has been good, so I can't
complain," said Sloan, a Swampscott native.
"People are still discovering us, but I have
a great group of customers from my North
Andover store and they are so loyal so they
are finding me. This location has turned
out to be an ideal location for my business.
Being able to open here has been a huge win
for us."
Sloan describes Sanctum Style as an
upscale boutique offering a multi-designer
assortment and the latest in fashion trends.
Sloan said its assortment is inspired by her
love of fashion and contemporary-city style.
Notable brands include Frame and Paige
Denim in both men’s and women’s styles;
Vince, Faherty, Rails, and ATM Anthony
Thomas Melillo for men; and Good American,
Misa Los Angeles, Ramy Brook, and
Jonathan Simkhai for women.
Sloan said a sanctum is defined as “a
sacred and holy place where one is free
from intrusion” and that is exactly what her
Sanctum Style provides her clients.
"Created as a special place to discover
not only what is new and current, Sanctum
Style seeks to enhance and transform one’s
personal style," said Sloan, who describes
her style as "cosmopolitan" with an emphasis
on upscale casual. "We cater to a lot
of people in banking, real estate, people
who generally are more professional, more
conservative, but we also have a lot of moms
who want functional wardrobes."
The store provides a personalized-shopping
service with knowledgeable stylists
on hand to work one-on-one with guests.
Personal shopping appointments are also
available to book online (www.sanctumstyle.
com | @sanctumstyle).
Sloan is no stranger to the world of luxury
fashion and fine jewelry. She worked for
more than a decade for several top retailers
including Barneys New York, John Hardy
and David Yurman at Saks 5th Avenue
and Bloomingdale’s 59th Street, as well as
Tiffany & Company on 5th Avenue. A
self-proclaimed anti-fashion fashionista,
she said she developed her no-nonsense
style philosophy from her experience as an
opera singer in New York City, as well as her
experience working in high fashion.
"I just kind of fell into luxury retailing
when I was running around the city
performing and I had clients who needed
wardrobe help, like I did," she said. "It was
a matter of being able to always be ready
while carrying around as little as you could."
Sloan grew up in Marblehead, spending
significant time in the family business, Sloan
Machinery in Lynn (now in New Hampshire).
She moved to Andover when she
was a teenager, graduating from Andover
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Silver
screen
meets the
art scene
By Allysha Dunnigan
Lynn artist Silvia VIA Leary, left, has
partnered with Kat Black, creative director
of the Beacon Restaurant Group and general
manager of Warwick Cinemas, to bring
her "1 Paint" series to Warwick as part of
the "Women of Color in the Arts" series.
Photo: Spenser Hasak
It's not all big-screen magic on
Pleasant Street — Warwick
Entertainment, in association with
The Beacon Restaurant Group,
is hosting an ongoing series of exhibits in
the Women of Color in the Arts Series
(WOCA), featuring many art forms and
mediums.
The series is produced by Urban Artists
with the intent to celebrate diversity, equity,
and inclusion.
Johnny Ray, owner of The Beacon
Restaurant and Bar at 123 Pleasant St., created
the WOCA Series at Warwick Place
theater with Creative Director Kat Black,
saying WOCA is a project that is near and
dear to his heart.
"As the father of mixed children with
a very talented and exceptionally bright
daughter, the fact that the opportunities to
showcase her talents might be limited by
her background was something that always
concerned me," Ray said.
This series kicked off in September with
Lynn native Silvia Leary, also known as
VIA, who presented her "1 Paint" series
during a Friday night event at Warwick
Place.
1 Paint consists of paintings representing
the past year from the Black Lives
Matter (BLM) protests to the COVID-19
pandemic.
"I wanted to really highlight, through art,
that there's really no such thing as a Black
or white human, and I was able to do that
through my paintings," VIA said.
Some of her paintings are of historical
figures who fought for civil rights, including
Muhammed Ali, Frederick Douglass,
Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr.,
and Malcom X.
VIA said this series addresses a variety
of issues in the past year, including people
being stuck inside, politics, the BLM movement,
and COVID-19.
"We need to all take a step back and
realize we are one," VIA said. "I figured if
I could paint a series — that's why it's called
the 1 Paint series — then people could
come out and see this event and realize 'why
are we fighting?'"
One of the main paintings in her series
is of a heart containing the No. 1 in the
middle, painted with different colors representing
different skin colors.
"This is to really highlight the (idea)
around: why we are fighting with each other
if we're all really the same (on the inside),
just different colors," VIA said.
Ray said when he first met VIAas a
guest at the restaurant, she expressed her
desire to have a gallery show there.
"That was the genesis and the inspiration
to feature an entire series of artists," Ray
said.
He and Black then discussed ideas for
what the name of the series could be and,
once they decided on the Women of Color
in the Arts Series, they acquired the rights
to the domain to establish a presence on the
web.
After getting to know VIA personally
and professionally, Ray and Black decided
that, given the artist's roots on the North
Shore, she would be an excellent choice to
be the person to represent WOCA Boston.
Every year, VIA works on a new series
and paints a different piece every couple of
months, hosting an event when the series is
completed.
Her event at The Warwick consisted of
a silent auction, which included a signed
photo of Devin and Jason McCourty from
the New England Patriots, a baseball signed
by Boston Red Sox players, a New England
Revolution Soccer shirt signed by Carles
Gil, and a shirt signed by former Celtics
player Antoine Walker.
Walker also attended the event for a
meet and greet and to support VIA 's
cause, as they are good friends.
The funds raised at this event were donated
to girls’ varsity sports in Lynn, many
of whose team members attended the event.
"I played basketball and soccer at Classical,
and I feel like the girls' teams don't get
enough attention," VIA said. "Every year,
I try to find somewhere to give back to."
The event had a cash bar at The Beacon
Restaurant and Bar — which is attached to
the cinema — appetizers, dance performers,
and art.
Ray said he and Black are going to continue
meeting with VIA to discuss plans
moving forward for the WOCA Boston
series and to find more artists to feature.
"We are all very excited about the
far-reaching implications both locally and
globally for this project," Ray said.
Ray plans to continue hosting female
artists of color at the Warwick indefinitely,
as they are currently renovating the space
between the Beacon and the Warwick to
better fit an art gallery.
To learn more about the WOCA series,
visit wocaboston.com or thebeaconmarblehead.com/women-of-color-art-series.
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Marblehead resident Harford Steen, 3, points to a gingerbread house during 2020 The Marblehead Christmas Walk. Photo: Olivia Falcigno
On the stroll
for Santa
The 50th annual Marblehead
Christmas Walk
and Holiday Stroll presented
by the Marblehead
Chamber of Commerce
is Dec. 2-5. Here is the events schedule:
Thursday, Dec. 2 -
5-7 p.m. Open House: Enjoy festive
decorations and the winter member and
small works exhibit at Marblehead Arts
Association, 8 Hooper St.
6-8 p.m. Holiday Shop & Stroll
7 p.m. St. Michael's tree lighting at
St. Michael's Church lawn, Washington
Street at Summer Street.
Friday, Dec. 3 -
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Wonderland of
Wreaths at Marblehead Museum (170
Washington St.) Noon-5 p.m. Festive
decorations and winter member and small
works exhibit at Marblehead Arts Association,
8 Hooper St.
3 - 6 p.m. Gingerbread Festival at Jeremiah
Lee Mansion gardens, 161 Washington
St.
4:45-5:30 p.m. or 6:15pm: Candlelight
Tour - 200 Years of Shopping in Marblehead
(134 Washington St.).
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Annual tree lighting
ceremony and music (Across from National
Grand Bank).
7:30 p.m. Lobster trap tree lighting
and sea shanties at Mud Puddle Toys (1
By Thor Jourgensen/ Courtesy Marblehead Chamber of Commerce
Pleasant St.)
Saturday, Dec. 4 -
8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Entertainment at
State Street Landing
9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Our Lady Star of the Sea
Christmas fair, 85 Atlantic Avenue.
9:30 - 10 a.m. Approximate time of
Santa’s arrival by lobster boat at State Street
landing.
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Gingerbread Festival at
the Jeremiah Lee Mansion Gardens, 161
Washington St.
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Wonderland of
Wreaths at Marblehead Museum, 170
Washington St.
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Holiday gift expo and
snowflake festival at Masonic Lodge, 62
Pleasant St.
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Silhouette Portrait
appointments at Mud Puddle Toys, 1
Pleasant St.
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Ice Sculpture Garden
on the grounds of Abbot Hall, 188 Washington
St.
11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Artisans Market at
Abbot Hall (188 Washington St.)
Noon Holiday parade throughout town.
Noon - 2 p.m. Bill Conly, "Marblehead's
Waterfront..." author, book signing
at Marblehead Museum, 170 Washington
St.
Noon - 5 p.m. Festive decorations and
winter member and small works exhibit at
Marblehead Arts Association, 8 Hooper St.
4:45 - 5:30 p.m. or 6:15 p.m. Candlelight
Tour - 200 years of shopping in
Marblehead, 134 Washington St.
8 p.m. Old North Festival chorus and
orchestra, 35 Washington St.
9 p.m. Better Than Nothing band
playing at The Beacon Restaurant, 123
Pleasant St.
Sunday, Dec. 5 -
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Holiday gift expo and
Snowflake Festival at Masonic Lodge, 62
Pleasant St.
10 a.m .- 4 p.m.: Silhouette Portrait
appointments at Mud Puddle Toys, 1
Pleasant St.
11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Gingerbread Festival
at the Jeremiah Lee Mansion gardens, 161
Washington St.
11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Wonderland of
Wreaths at Marblehead Museum, 170
Washington St.
Noon - 2 p.m. Dan Dixey, "Growing
up in Marblehead" author, book signing at
Marblehead Museum, 170 Washington St.
Noon - 4 p.m. Artisans Market at
Abbot Hall, 188 Washington St.
Noon - 5 p.m. Festive decorations and
winter member and small works exhibit at
Marblehead Arts Association, 8 Hooper
St.
7:30 p.m. Old North Festival Chorus
and Orchestra, 35 Washington St.

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Racing
the
Redd’s
Pond
way
Photos and story by
Jakob Menendez
The sound of a countdown
clock reminiscent of a rocket
launch sequence reverberates
across the water and fills the
air surrounding Redd’s Pond
on a crisp fall day in October.
Seventeen men arrayed in a tidy line
stand on the concrete edge just near the water.
Each of them hold a radio transmitter.
They listen intently for the telltale twang
of an animatronic bell, the start of a sight
familiar to Marblehead residents: a yacht
race — but not one coursing across coastal
waters bordering the town.
Seventeen model yachts, as they’re officially
called, cross over the starting line at a
blistering speed of maybe a full knot. There
are no motors in these boats — they’re
powered by the wind and controlled by their
1
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1
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Model yacht racers, in attendance for the
Chowder Regatta held by the Marblehead
Model Yacht Club, sit and stand on the
edge of Redd's Pond as they compete.
A racer walks by with a radio transmitter in
hand as model yachts drift through Redd's
Pond during one of the heats.
Model yachts race past each other toward
the finish mark as they catch a strong gust
of wind in Redd's Pond.
Attendees of the Chowder Regatta race
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Standley Goodwin, 83, joined the Marblehead Model Yacht Club in 1954, and has raced on Redd's Pond ever since.
captains who can change the direction of
their sails with the flick of a joystick.
The competition is stiff at the Chowder
Regatta, an annual race that, as you may
have guessed, serves a chowder lunch, and
is hosted every year at Redd’s Pond by the
Marblehead Model Yacht Club (MMYC).
The miniature models of sailing yachts
are hand built to meet specific classifications.
The most popular model raced at
Redd’s is, of course, the Marblehead 50-800
Class, so named because the boats were to
be made 50 inches long, with 800 square
inches of sail space.
Model yacht racing at Redd’s can be
traced back to as far as 1892 when a version
of the club first began setting sail. A member
of the MMYC, Roy Clough, is credited
with helping to create the iconic M class in
1930, which would go on to become one of
the world’s most widely-used model yacht
classes for pond racing.
The first model boats were called "free
sails," and were controlled solely by the wind
and a small feather on the back of the boat.
Standley Goodwin, an 83-year-old
engineer whose work on missile-guidance
systems at Draper Laboratories helped put
Neil Armstrong on the moon, has lived in
a white wooden house with views of Redd’s
Pond his whole life, “except for the first two
weeks,” as Goodwin will say. His parents
hand-built it in 1937, gifting the home to
him after their passing.
He laughs when asked what age he started
sailing: “The minute I was old enough
to buy a boat,” Goodwin says with a smile.
Though he had been building and sailing for
a few years before he was 16, it was in 1954
that he officially joined the MMYC.
Goodwin credits himself with the
success that the MMYC would have in the
following years in terms of membership.
“The club had virtually died at that point.
The older members were having meetings,
but they weren't sailing. There were a
half-dozen younger kids who got interested
all at the same time; we kind of resurrected
the affair, and we've been sailing there ever
since.”
Memorabilia from Goodwin’s sailing
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Marblehead Model Yacht Club Commodore Benjamin Franklin "Biff" Martin's apartment is home to boats
and sails, old and new, including ones he is repairing.
every nook and cranny that can afford the
space: boats, sails, national sailing magazines,
and plaques from his various title
victories.
Many of those plaques include National
Championship titles, a race that Goodwin
has won eight times throughout his
multi-decade sailing career. His first was in
Toronto, Canada in 1974, a race in which
Goodwin “came out of nowhere” to secure
the title while racing among the bigwig
sailing names of the time.
Nowadays, Goodwin mostly stays away
from the spotlight and traveling that
marked his more successful years as a model
sailor. Now he mainly sails on Sundays, one
of the MMYC’s official sailing days, though
fewer and fewer boats are being launched at
Redd’s Pond, in part due to the weather, but
also due to a steady decline in membership
over the past few years.
When Goodwin goes out now, he’s lucky
to see even two other sailors out on the
pond getting their boats wet. One of them
that he can usually count on is the MMYC’s
commodore, Benjamin Franklin Martin,
though everyone calls him Biff.
Martin, also a Marblehead native who
grew up a stone’s throw away from Redd’s
Pond, deems the pond the “Mecca” of model
yacht racing.
“This is where it all began,” says Martin.
“It's where the Marblehead class began, and
everyone loves to come and sail on Redd’s
Pond even though it drives them nuts. The
trees around it make it almost impossible to
just come there and sail and win.”
Martin and Goodwin have been close
friends for nearly 60 years and counting, in
large part due to model yacht racing. Martin
is quick to acknowledge that Goodwin is
the most successful racer that Redd’s Pond
has ever seen.
“He’s a piece of work. Every time that
I’ve gone to Redd’s Pond I’ve gone to beat
him, even when we were kids,” said Martin.
“He's pretty good at what he does, but
sometimes –– sometimes –– I can beat him.
And he knows it.”
Though Goodwin may not remember,
Martin’s first memory of the champion
yachtsman was from when he was 3 years
old.
“He’s always been a good friend to me.
There's been times when he and I are the
only ones that have sailed all summer long.
We show up Sunday morning and race each
other (for) 10 races,” Martin said.
Martin’s apartment in Marblehead,
much like Goodwin's home, is chock-full
of sails and boats, many old, but some new
that he’s still repairing.
“It's an obsession," he said. "I mean how
many places have you seen where somebody
has a hobby that their whole apartment is
taken over with?”
His obsession with model yachting is
part of what has kept Redd’s Pond alive as a
destination for model racing all these years.
It costs nearly $3,000 every two years to
cleanse the pond and keep it clear of algae,
but the $25-per-person cost of membership
to be a part of the MMYC unfortunately is
a mere drop in the bucket, leaving the burden
on Martin to seek larger donations and
find other streams of income for the club.
As to what the future holds for the
Marblehead Model Yacht Club, Goodwin
believes that’s in the hands of a younger
generation of sailors who have yet to discover
the passion of model yachting.
“The people who are members are all
getting on, so we’ll just have to see. Some
new group is going to have to take over in a
few years,” Goodwin said.
Until then though, most Sunday mornings
from April to December, any visitor to
Redd’s Pond will witness the old guard still
standing strong, watching over the pond as
they’ve done for more than a century.
In their eyes, they’ve already done their
part to leave their legacy in Marblehead. It’s
up to someone new –– maybe even someone
like you –– to set sail and carry on the
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Shubie's keeps stomachs growling
By Hannah Chadwick
Looking for gourmet foods, imported
cheeses, artisan gifts, freshly-made prepared
foods, and an extensive selection of wines,
spirits, and craft beers? Your next stop is
Shubie's.
A family-owned-and-operated business
for 74 years, the iconic store is renowned for
finding and selecting only the best products
for its customers from around the world.
Doug Shube is a third-generation family
member who has been working full time at
Shubie's for 10 years.
“First and foremost, we are a community-oriented
store; everything we do revolves
around our guests and our community," he
said. "That's something my parents have
always instilled."
In 1948, Doug’s grandfather, Bill Shube,
started Shubie's in a 500-square-foot liquor
store attached to the former Shube's Market
on Atlantic Avenue, where the CVS Pharmacy
is now.
George Shube, Doug's father, took over
the business in 1976. George graduated
from Bowdoin College in Maine and went
right to work for Shubie's. He learned
about the wines sold in the store, studying
their histories and taste nuances, gradually
expanding his palette until he could reliably
pinpoint the best vintages for his store.
Under George's ownership, Shubie's
expanded from 500 square feet to 2,500
square feet. His wife, Carol, got involved in
the store's operation.
The Shube family upgraded the store
from a 2,500-square-foot building to a
10,000-square-foot building. Carol expanded
the store's product focus from food to
gifts.
"She wanted to bring in products. My
mother really allowed the store to expand,"
Doug Shube said.
Today, George and Carol own Shubie's
together.
In 2014, Shubie's hired chef Kate
Hammond. After owning one of the North
Shore’s most beloved restaurants, The
Grapevine of Salem, Hammond moved on
to create fresh food for Shubie's. Hammond
brought her Mediterranean culinary background
to Marblehead, which gives Shubie's
a unique taste.
COVID-19 became a nightmare for
most small businesses, but Doug explained
how Shubie's fared and how it will continue
to take the pandemic very seriously.
Shubie's was also fortunate enough to be
named an essential business throughout the
pandemic. It provided online ordering for
curbside and delivery services, which it still
uses today.
“Marblehead is a really amazing community
for small businesses; the people in town
really watch out for the small businesses
here," said Doug. "There is definitely a
movement to shop local and keep local."
Shubie's continues to invite guests in
with a family-oriented and welcoming
atmosphere. If you visit Shubie's, it's more
than likely that you will be greeted by
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Shubie's ranks among If it's cheese — and
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Marblehead's iconic
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other delicious
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Jennifer Lewis opened MacRae's Sustainable Goods on Washington Street in 2020.
Photos: Spenser Hasak
Sustainability proves to be sustainable
By Mike Alongi
For Jennifer Lewis, the mission
of creating a more sustainable
world has always been a part
of her consciousness. But after
helping her son, Ethan, with
his second-grade project on plastic in the
oceans last year, something just clicked for
her.
"My real 'Ah-ha' moment was when I
read that 90 percent of the plastic that we
'recycle' never actually gets recycled," said
Lewis. "I had been doing small things to reduce
our family's plastic footprint, but after
that project it really hit me that I needed to
do more."
The world produces more than 300
million tons of plastic every year, 8 million
of which is dumped into oceans, according
to the nonprofit Plastic Oceans.
After working on the project and doing
more research, Lewis decided to make sustainable
products easier to find on the North
Shore and decided to open a store –– Mac-
Rae’s Sustainable Goods. It is named after
her great-great grandfather, John MacRae,
who owned a general store in Des Moines,
Iowa after immigrating from Scotland.
MacRae's, which sits at 108 Washington
St., just celebrated its one-year anniversary
after opening on Nov. 7, 2020. The online
store currently has 285 items for sale,
including shampoo and conditioner bars
(which don’t require plastic packaging),
brushless bamboo toothbrushes, natural
deodorant in a cardboard tube, hand and
body cream in tins, makeup in compostable
packaging, biodegradable sunglasses, compostable
phone cases and more.
There’s also a refill station with bulk
laundry detergent, dish soap, all-purpose
cleaning spray, and dishwasher powder. Customers
can bring in their own containers or
purchase them there.
"I think that might be the most impactful
part of the business because people don't
realize how much plastic they're throwing
away on a daily basis, all of the things
from dish soap containers to plastic bags,
toothpaste tubes and more," said Lewis. "By
getting containers that can be cleaned and
reused over and over, we're eliminating a lot
of plastic waste."
Opening the store was a challenge in
itself, but the first year of business has seen
hosts of customers come in and tell Lewis
that her store is just what they've been
looking for.
"We get people coming in every day
saying that they love the store and the
mission we're on," said Lewis. "People have
told me that they dreamed a store like this
would come to town, and that's really great
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MacRae's Sustainable Goods offers an array of glassware and products to cut down on single-use
plastics.
Lewis knows that there's still something
of a stigma outside of town that Marblehead
is more of a seasonal place, but she's
been collaborating with members of the
community to make it clear that MacRae's
is part of the fabric of their town. Those
collaborations included hosting a talk
alongside Sustainable Marblehead, bringing
in interns from Marblehead High School's
chapter of the National Green Schools
Society, and allowing local artists and performers
to use her space in the back room
to promote their art.
"It's a great way to introduce people to
the store and our goals while also giving
people a place to display their art or sing
their song or something like that," said
Lewis. "It's important to make this a community
space that everyone can enjoy."
Lynn Bryant, a board member with
Sustainable Marblehead, is thrilled to have
the store in town.
"They’re raising awareness about the
need to reduce our use of plastic, while
giving their customers attractive alternatives,"
Bryant said. "Their products will
make it easy and fun for people to be more
sustainable."
As for what's to come in the next year
for MacRae's, Lewis only wants to continue
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Their Handprints made history
By Hannah Chadwick
Local entrepreneurs Molly Haley and Kathy Walters started their fabric-design business in the 1970s, and the Marblehead Musuem is celebrating their legacy.
Photos: Kathy Walters
A
small business run by
women that took the country
by storm 50 years ago
just so happens to be from
Marblehead.
Molly Haley and Kathy Walters lived in
Marblehead in the 1970s. Haley was teaching
a silk-screening class at the Marblehead
Arts Association when she met Walters, and
the two would go on to use their hobbies
and passions to create beautiful pieces of
fabrics and patterns.
These patterns and fabrics were used to
make quilts, bags, dresses, ties, and so much
more. If you are lucky enough to get your
hands on one of these, you'll be sure to fall
in love with it.
The Marblehead Museum had a display
of Handprints materials over the summer.
Before this, its products were in storage for
three decades.
“We had the company for 20 years; when
we closed we put the products in a storage
locker for 30 years,” said Walters.
Handprints represented the changes
going on during that time period by creating
more opportunities for women. Racial
equality, women's rights, and gay rights were
all beginning to be explored on a national
stage at that time in the 20th century.
“The interesting story is that of its time,
starting in 1971 was a time where women's
roles were changing,” said Walters.
Being a small business owned by two
women with families helped move Marblehead
forward in time when it came to
human rights.
Walters also said that Marblehead was
crafty in the '70s; it became a place where
many artists showed their talents to the
world.
“Marblehead had a lot of people doing
crafts at the time,” Walters said.
Marblehead Handprints had stores in
Nantucket; Cambridge; and Faneuil Hall,
and on Newbury Street in Boston.
There were also stores in Washington,
D.C.; Newport, Rhode Island; St. Louis;
Houston, and La Jolla, California –– and, of
course, Marblehead.
In 2014, Haley and Walters donated
their records, products, and memories to the
Marblehead Museum for everyone to see. 45

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In this town...the past is still present
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2

Winter 2021 | 35
3
4
Historical photos: Marblehead
Musuem / Lauren McCormack
Present Photos: Spenser Hasak
1
A circa-1900 view of
local homes and Abbot
Hall from Crocker Park
and a view from the
park today.
2
A late 19th-century
view of the Jeremiah
Lee Mansion and the
Washington Street
building today.
3
A 1920s black-and-white
photograph, attributed
to Henry A. Castle, of the
Old Town House, and the
view today.
This black-and-white
4
photograph of 102
Washington St., is
attributed to Henry A.
Castle.

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A legacy
Winter 2021 | 37
etched in
stone
Photos and story by Alena Kuzub
For at least three generations,
the first sons in the Cedrone
family have been named
Daniel Joseph and one after
the other they took up the art
of stone engraving.
“I think most people that do this work,
that are engravers, learn it from their fathers
or their family,” said Daniel Joseph Cedrone
III, current owner of Marblehead Memorials.
“And I think there are probably just a
few families in Massachusetts that do this,
and it is passed down to the sons, most
likely.”
Cedrone never met his grandfather,
who did engraving as a full-time career. His
grandfather never owned his own monument
company, but he ran a crew that did
engraving for other monument dealers.
Cedrone assumes that his grandfather didn’t
choose this profession by accident. He believes
his great-grandfather, who came from
Italy, was involved in memorial services
there as well.
His father, Daniel Joseph Cedrone Jr.,
did engraving part-time. His full-time job
was at General Electric in Lynn, but he
started Marblehead Memorials on the side.
“I took this business over from my father,
learned the trade from him,” said Cedrone.
Cedrone started working with his father
when he was about 10 years old.
“Whenever he was going to work
engraving, I would try to go with him,” said
Cedrone. “I was always interested. I just like
being with my dad and hanging out with
him and talking to him and working with
him. I always liked being out for the day, just
driving around, watching him do his thing.”
Once Cedrone overslept and, when he
woke up, he heard his father leaving. Cedrone
hurried and ran after his truck, but his
father did not notice him.
“I wanted to be with him for the day, but
he didn’t see me, so I walked back home,”
Cedrone said.
Cedrone said that his father, “Handsome
Big Dan” or HBD, as he called himself, was
very patient, funny, smart, and well-liked.
He took the time to train Cedrone, to show
him how to do everything from sandblasting
to hand tooling intricate details with a
hammer and a chisel.
When his father died in 2018 at the age
of 74, Cedrone knew exactly what headstone
he would choose for him — light-gray granite
from Barre, Vt., all finished and smooth
on all sides. Then Cedrone read a letter
that his father had left for him. His father
described in the letter the exact same design
of the headstone he wanted for himself.
Now Cedrone is the owner and only employee
of Marblehead Memorials. He does
it as a part-time job, as a hobby, he said. He
sells headstones, does freelance engraving
for other companies, and offers monument
cleaning and restoration services.
“It’s not really glamorous. We are out
there sandblasting all day. We come home
filthy. And it’s hard, manual labor. It’s a lot
of lugging bags of sand and hauling hose.
But I’ve always loved it. That’s why I keep
doing it even as a part-time job. It’s something
I think I’ll always do,” said Cedrone.
Cedrone likes the artistic aspect of this
job. He finds it satisfying to look at the final
product. He said he takes pride when the
finished product looks great.
On average, Cedrone sells 40 headstones
a year and does hundreds of engravings. This
year was busier than most, Cedrone said.
“Kind of playing catch up from last year,”
he said.
Engraving takes from half an hour
for one date to several hours for several
lines. When he started, he had to lay out
every symbol with proper distances on a
flat surface by hand. Nowadays, the job is
designed in the Computer-Aided Design
(CAD) software and printed on a rubber
stencil, which gets glued to the stone and
then sandblasted.
Business comes mostly through the word
of mouth, Cedrone said. Some clients come
knowing exactly what they want. Others
he takes around a cemetery to look at the
headstones.
“You take something from one stone,
you take something from another, and
that’s how you arrive at your stone, which is
unique and special,” Cedrone said.
Besides monuments and headstones,
Cedrone does landscape boulders, which
are quite popular on Cape Cod, where he’s
had a lot of clients. Some people ask to put
Marblehead Memorials owner Daniel Joseph Cedrone III carries on a family stone-engraving tradition stretching back more than a century to Italy.

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On average, Marblehead Memorials sells 40 headstones a year and engraves hundreds of stones.
a number of their house on the boulder or a
lighthouse. He also does pavers and custom
work, like compass roses or an occasional
engraving on a millstone.
Over the years, Marblehead Memorials
did a number of projects around the town.
When the administration was redoing
the Old Town area, including sidewalks,
Marblehead Memorials did a number of
tablets. One of them, a big compass rose
and a cod in the middle, is located right
outside of Mud Puddle Toys at the end of
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at the Market Square, the Bank Square, a
little plaque outside of the Maddie's Sail
Loft restaurant, and another tablet with a
longitude and latitude at the Landing.
Another big project in Marblehead is
called the Sun Circle. Bruce Greenwald,
a local architect, created this astronomical
sculpture, which denotes the solstice and
equinox events during the year, at Preston
Beach. Marblehead Memorials did the engraving
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Cedrone also participated in the creation
of the Garden of Peace, a memorial to
victims of homicide, located on Somerset
Street in Boston across from the Suffolk
Superior Court and dedicated in 2004. The
garden features engraved stones with the
names of homicide victims. New names are
added every year. Cedrone said he returned
to the garden for four or five years after it
was opened to engrave the names of the
victims.
A new project Cedrone is working on is
a collaboration with the Marblehead Racial
Justice Team on restoring a gravestone for
Agnis, an enslaved woman of about 43 years
old, who was buried at the Old Burial Hill
by the family she had served in their plot in
1718. Her original headstone was stolen in
the 1970s, but there are photographs of it
from the 1890s in the Marblehead Museum
collection.
For his full-time job, Cedrone works at
FactSet, a financial technology company,
doing financial news analysis for its news division
called Street Account. He majored in
political science at Northeastern University
and received an MBA at Babson College in
2009.
Cedrone has two sons. The eldest, Daniel,
is 14 years old. The youngest, Thomas, is
11. Neither of them has picked up engraving
yet, but Cedrone is not upset about it. They
are still too young, he said.
Cedrone never saw himself living in
Marblehead. His wife also grew up here and
they met in high school.
“I had a feeling that we would always
stay here,” said Cedrone. “We always
wanted to stay in Marblehead. Love being
here, love summers here. Just a great small
town. Couldn’t really imagine being, living
anywhere else.” 45

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