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MAKING HISTORY FUN Local schoolchildren get unique feel for state history as reenactor groups perform drills at the Saugus Iron Works
A SWORD STORY: Mark Millman, left, a member of the Salem Trayned Band, gives Madelyn Sacks, 8, a history lesson about the swords and daggers that were typically used by the militia companies of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. Madelyn, a student at Lynnhurst Elementary School, was one of dozens of area schoolchildren who turned out at the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site on Wednesday for demonstrations by the Salem Trayned Band and the Lexington Minutemen. Please see photo page inside. (Saugus Advocate Photos by Mark E. Vogler)
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t’s one thing for local school children to read about the militia companies of the Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1629 at the Saugus Public Library. But it’s even more fun for them to follow-up that reading by going to the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site to talk with some people who have researched that period and love to share their knowledge through reenacting drills or showing off their replica weapons. Kids may even get the chance
to get a real feel for history by touching replica swords, pikes and muskets – under the supervision of the Salem Trayned Band – and then watching the reenacting group perform drills while dressed in period clothing and using historically-correct weapons. “Wow! They let me hold the sword,” Vanessa Murati, 10, told her friends, excitedly on Wednesday afternoon as she stood under a table under a tent in the front lawn of the Iron Works visitors center next to a ta-
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Valedictorian mom Stacy Filo earns her diploma and becomes the top student in her class 22 years after dropping out of high school
OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE: Former high school dropout has a positive outlook on her job prospects after earning her high school equivalency diploma at Catholic Charities North (CCN) in Lynn. Here she works on job search activities at CCN. (Saugus Advocate Photo by Mark E. Vogler)
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tacy Filo said she has long regretted not graduating with the Danvers High School Class of 1995. But it took her family falling into dire financial straits to force the 40-year-old Saugus stay-at-home mother of three children to go back to school to earn the diploma that she longed for. “I’ve been fortunate to have had the support of my husband for over 20 years, so I really didn’t have to worry about having a full-time job,” Filo said in an in-
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terview last week. That changed during the summer of 2015 when Filo’s husband, who worked in construction, suffered a serious injury that left him without the use one hand. He remains disabled without a job. “We had no income coming in,” Filo said. “I started to look for employment and then learned my skills were way out of date. I had been home for 10 years with the kids.” Filo’s family ended up on Tran-
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