Memorial Day weekend has finally arrived and with it comes the promise of Summer with pools opening around town, boats heading to their moorings in Marblehead Harbor and the days getting longer and warmer.
As part of the Memorial Day parade, the Glover’s Regiment marches to Memorial park and fires a salute in memory of those whose sacrifices we remember on this day.
This image was captured last year as the old muskets fired – in the case of a few rifles, you can see a significant flame erupt as well.
Hi Eyal,
Ahhh, memories! How much we take for granted when different things are around us all the time. I do miss the specialness of New England on patriotic holidays. When I try to explain this to people out west, they look at me like an alien generally. This photo of Glover’s Regiment brings back a lot of thoughts and memories since the Regiment is standing on the original “5 and 10” and Mrs. Toft’s candy store. I spent a lot of time in those stores. Also, the green house on the right was owned by my parents and I lived there from age 5 to 10. I spent many hours sitting in the window seats of the dormer windows in the mansard roof when we lived on the top floor. The window just below the roof was a small alcove where my piano was located and I spent a lot of hours there. As a result, I have been playing piano professionally for 68 years although I could never have imagined it back then. I hated to practice my lessons but I loved to play anything else and it has served me well. Originally, the house had a porch across the front and around the left side. There is a window where a door used to be in the side off the porch. I managed to smash my fingers in that door several times. And I have quite a few photos taken on the original front stairs. We were on the top floor when I started school and my mother had a fit when she discovered that I was sliding down three floors of banister each morning. It’s amazing to revive all these memories that your photos evoke. Thank you so much!!! I am so looking forward to the six books I ordered for my family and friends. It will be our summer treat and then I can come back for my 55th MHS reunion in Sept. and look at M’head with a new awareness (and. also with new 18 yr old eyes as my dr. calls them since I just had cataract surgery the last few weeks). I asked my senior prom date it he thinks we will look the same and we both cracked up laughing!)
Jackie
Great photos as always Eyal!
To your commenter, “Jackie” – wow, you mentioned so much of what MY childhood in Marblehead was like. You’re a little older than I am, my 50th HS reunion won’t be until next year (class of 1966) but I don’t go to those things. I had done a blog and mentioned “Ma Toft’s” candy store and just yesterday had a commenter called Courtney Hamilton who said that Mrs. Toft was her great grandmother. It’s a shame that all the old places are torn down now and gone. Those were the good old days! The house you grew up in I think was either the same house or right next to the house my great aunt owned and lived in, her name was Margaret Clark. Just across the street from the old car dealership and the old bowling alleys where we spent many happy hours!
Thanks Eyal, as always, for your wonderful work, and I’m so enjoying your book of photographs that I won in your “guess the height of the snow at my door” contest!