MA, USA
Marblehead
First-person accounts and interpretive stories from Marblehead.
2 Stories
Accounts & Voices
Historical Voice
The Fishermen at the Oars
Colonel John Glover
John Glover's men did not look like soldiers. They wore short blue jackets and canvas trousers instead of military uniforms. Their hands were calloused from rope and oar, not musket drill. They smelle...
Modern VoiceThe Town That Remembers
Marblehead is a small town. You can walk from one end to the other in twenty minutes. The streets are narrow and winding because they follow paths laid out when this was a fishing village, and in some...