Larry Young of Manchester, dressed in period costume, leads pupils in a game as he gives them a taste of what Revolutionary-era life was in a program titled "Manchester Alive in 1775" Allegra Boverman
Young shows kindergartners Amelia Costa, left, and Aiden Brown how to play stool ball. Allegra Boverman
Young teaches the class a period songs that children in 1775 would sing. Allegra Boverman
Young talks about his period outfit – stockings, garters to hold up the stockings, knee britches, shirttails, waistcoat, coat and hat. Allegra Boverman
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MANCHESTER — Resident Larry Young, a history re-enacting musician, took pupils at Memorial Elementary School back to 1775 and gave them a taste last week of what Revolutionary-era life was like for children.
In a program titled "Manchester Alive in 1775," he taught them period dances, games, discussed era-specific music, household chores and clothing, too. Here, kindergartners learn a dance.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times The building at left in Pond View Village includes 39 Lepage Lane, where a man Salem man died in an incident involving a motor vehicle.
A Haverhill man has been identified as the driver under investigation in the death of a Salem man who was reportedly struck or run over by a car in the Pond View Village housing complex early Saturday morning. James Hayes, 43, of 125 Ferry St., in Ha
Continued ...The mother of the 29-year-old Salem man who was killed after reportedly being struck or run over by a car early Saturday morning in Gloucester's Pond View housing complex remembered him as being hard-working, fun-loving and caring, adding that she sp
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Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Korean War this year, Gloucester's Memorial Day parade will include an extra stop for a wreath laying at a monument that stands as a joint Korean War and Vietnam War memorial at Gloucester High School. The ne
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