Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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NORTHSHOREMAG.COM 34 JUNE + JULY 2018 PHOTOGRAPH BY EYAL OREN (TOP), BOSTONREP (BOTTOM RIGHT) coming out of her 1683 house. e tail of an 800-pound tuna graces her rustic front door. Next, we visit the Jeremiah Lee Mansion, a glorious colonial Georgian home built by craftsmen from 1766 to 1768, when Colonel Lee was one of the wealthiest merchants and ship owners in Massachusetts. According to the Marblehead Museum, which has owned and preserved the home since 1909, Lee tragically died of a fever he contracted while hiding from British troops marching to Lexington in April 1775. On this fine day, the Marblehead Garden Club is tending the Colonial Revival gardens, preparing for new docent-led garden tours and for this year's 250th anniversary celebration of the house. e Lee Mansion is open June through October for viewing; among other treats, it still has much of the magnificent original hand-painted English wallpaper. After that, I meet historian Robert Booth at e Barnacle, a salty place touted as the oldest family-owned restaurant in historic Marblehead. It started as a clam shack, and is now famous for the rogue waves that splash up on the deck. At lunchtime, locals comment on the quality of the day's scallops white wine while enjoying spectacular views of the harbor. Raised in Marblehead, Booth is the researcher behind the plaques on many of the historic homes here and in Salem. He can point out the least-interesting-looking house on a street and tell a tale that includes a shipwreck, a tarring and feathering, and a subsequent John Greenleaf Whittier poem. "Marblehead was a completely distinct community," says Booth, who has written several nonfiction books including a feminist history of Marblehead, where he describes how fishermen's wives, often widowed, hopeless, and living in "an unbreakable cycle of poverty" with their many children, changed the religious, social, and economic landscape in Marblehead. It was the women who got their husbands off the water and into manu- facturing jobs. In more recent history, John and Jean Fogle moved to town in the 1970s when their Boston apartment got broken into. ey had only visited the town to the north a few times, but desperate, and with a new baby, they fled the big city. Fast-forward about 40 years and their / F A C E S + P L A C E S / M E D I A N 19 Rockaway Ave., 3 bd., 1 ba., 1 half ba., 1,128 sq. ft., 0.11 acre Price: $499,000. Agent: Coldwell Banker coldwellbanker.com H I G H E N D 75 Clifton Ave., 6 bd., 4 ba., 2, half ba., 7,174 sq. ft., 0.68 acre Price: $1,550,000. Agent: J Barrett & Company jbarrettrealty.com REAL ESTATE daughter, Lauren, has penned Colonial Marblehead. e Fogles have been participating in home exchanges since 2010, with a swap scheduled for this summer that will take them to Guatemala. "It seems the lure of our address and surrounding location is very potent, as we have never initiated any of our exchanges... rather, simply sifted through the numerous offers that come our way," says John. Leading the arts community in Marblehead, the Fogles have worked in local theatre for decades, with John directing countless plays and his wife costuming them. Marblehead has always had + Colonial Marblehead: From Rogues to Revolutionaries by Lauren Fogle + Glorious Splendor: The 18th-Century Wallpapers in the Jeremiah Lee Mansion by Judy Anderson By Robert Booth: + The Women of Marblehead: A Women's History of Marblehead, Mass., in the 19th Century and of The Marblehead Female Humane Society and Its Activities from 1816 Forward + Mad for Glory: A Heart of Darkness in the War of 1812 + Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City + marbleheadfestival.org + arborhousemarblehead.com HELPFUL LINKS READING LIST The Marblehead Festival of Arts includes fireworks over the harbor in July.