Marblehead, MA
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Colonel John Glover
The Fishermen at the Oars
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 Voices
The 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...
