Identifier: bookofboston00shack (find matches)
Title: The book of Boston
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Shackleton, Robert, 1860-1923
Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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antedates the Eevolution and is supposed to havebeen made by an Italian in London. Within sight of the Lee mansion is that of Leesbrother-in-law, *King Hooper, as he was calledfrom his wealth and magnificence; he was anothermerchant prince, and the house is especially notablefrom the fine banquet hall, still preserved, in theupper story of the big building. And not far awayis another Lee mansion, the home of a brother of Col-onel Lee. Marblehead is a town of old houses, although mostof them are of a far more modest kind than thesegreat mansions. And it is an interesting town in itsgeneral aspect of the olden-time. **The strange, old-fashioned, silent town—the wooden houses, quaintand brown; and indeed it is a study in browns!And in its older portion, beside the shore, it is stilllittle more than a maze of paths and byways, of nar-row streets incredibly twisting. Houses are set downat all sorts of angles, shouldering one another intoor away from the roadways. Many of these houses 264
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A TOWN WASPIINGTON WANTED TO SEE are ancient, and there is still in use a fascinating,ancient-looking shipyard, with high-perched shipsunder construction, directly on the line of one of thestreets, as with the one at Medford; it is a yard fullof ships and chips. And there are black rocks, withblack pools among them, and a rocky shore; and thereis a broad stretch of harbor, thick-dotted with fishingboats. The people who live in this most old-fashioned portion of the town are still full of old-fashioned ways and beliefs, and many of them haveactually heard the shrieking woman: the ghost of awoman who was put to death by Spanish pirates atwhat is now called Oakum Bay, and who shrillyshrieks on the yearly night of her murder, just as sheshrieked in actuality, dismally rousing the town fromits slumber, so long ago. George Washington was especially desirous of see-ing Marblehead, on the journey that he made to Mas-sachusetts in 1789; I say ** especially, not that hegave any reason, but beca

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