The 'Headers
IN LIFE AND LEGEND
by
RUSSELL W. KNIGHT

-- from the Introduction --

"...when I was a boy, my schoolmates and I time and again would remain glued to our seats as our teachers held us spellbound with vividly worded tales of the town's glorius past.

Needless to say, the stories they related lost nothing in the telling, for most of them were members of the town's oldest families.

What a joy it was to learn that it was Elbridge Gerry, Azor Orne and Jerimiah Lee who had fathered the war for indepenedence; that it was Captains Tucker, Manley, Broughton, Selman and Mugford who had successfully challenged Great Britain's vast naval fleet! That when Washington launched the American navy, five of the six vessels he commissioned as warships were schooners owned and operated by a bevy of Marbleheaders; that those ex-Grand Bankers armed with a few small-bore cannon and one or two swivel guns, then proceeded to snare a goodly number of British merchantment laden with supplies which Washington desperately needed to arm and equip his hard-pressed forces..."

This book carries on the traditions of story-telling and community spirit that are at the heart of Marblehead's uniqueness.

As the author puts it... "Read on..."

-- inside back --