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A Trip to Marblehead & the Neck, Mass.
1901
Aug. 19

A glorious day clear, cool, light breeze. It
clouded in the late afternoon about five o'clock
and by eight o'clock it was drizzling.

We took the 10.18 A.M. for Salem reaching
there at 11.50. Then we took the electrics to
Marblehead. It was a beautiful ride through the
main street in Salem, south round the harbor
into old Marblehead. We rode through the
quaint narrow streets to the end of the route
on Marblehead Harbor. There we looked over
the water for some time, and talked with a
man, a native, who kindly told us about the
boats and islands, &c. The Vigilant, a
fine yacht, one of the earlier cup-defenders,
was just weighing anchor and we watched her
as she sailed out of the harbor under full
spread of canvas. Some two miles off shore
lies Lowell Island, where I remember
staying when I was a boy. The hotel has
been burned, but there are a few buildings on
the Island. Baker's Island from three to four
miles off with its two Light Houses marks the
entrance to Salem and Beverly Harbors. We
walked on to the old Fort Sewall at the mouth
of the barbor and from its ruined & deserted
battlements we had a glorious view of the
Neck, the Harbor, dotted with boats of all
kinds on its deep blue water, from the large
steam yacht with its costly appointments to the
plain row boat, and the North Shore, studded
with islands stretching out with the wide ocean beyond.