Word: newburyport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Newburyport, Mass...
Died. Andrew Joseph Gillis, 69, hell-raising ofttime mayor of Newburyport, Mass. (pop. 14,100), a brawling Irishman known as "Bossy," who bulled his way through six sporadic two-year terms between 1927 and 1959, engaging in such shenanigans (chopping down city-owned trees, libeling a judge) that he was arrested countless times, sentenced to two jail terms, and finally proved too much even for the whimsical citizens of his old seafaring town;* of a heart attack two days after losing his 20th bid for mayor; in Newburyport...
...Labaree published a book on the history of Newburyport, Massachusetts, during the Revolutionary War. And while on leave of absence, he has been working on his second book dealing with the Boston Tea Party, which will be completed and published sometime next year...
Mountains of Ice. Garrison was born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1805, the second son of a Baptist mother and ne'er-do-well father. He early felt the call to serve God and humanity. At 13, he was hired by a newspaper, and before long he was writing editorials denouncing the sins of the world. "Slowly the young man was mastering the difficult art of avoiding argument," writes Thomas. "He simply was not happy with ideas." But he occasionally was moved to verse...
...military installations. The Essex Register of Salem, Mass., in an item from Boston dated July 10. 1817, reported (using a sometime spelling of the painter's name): "Early the last three mornings, previous to his departure, the President has had sittings at Mr. Stewart's room." The Newburyport Herald later shed more light on the trouble a President would take to reach a painter in that era: ";A few days after the arrival of Mr. Monroe in Boston, he went out early one morning in his carriage to sit for his portrait to Mr. Stuart. Not knowing...