From the Federalist period until 1928 Newburyport, Mass, was a staid, church going, codfish-eating community. Before and since, this has been far from the case. Prime clown of early Newburyport "Lord" Timothy Dexter. He sent coals to Newcastle, warming pans to the In made a fortune. He lived in a mansion bristling with minarets and wo statues. He drank constantly, crown haddock-hawker his private poet laureate with a wreath of parsley, spelled v than Chaucer, published oftener.
Four years ago another eccentric fi burst forth upon the world from...
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