The Waterside people of Newburyport are known to hold fast
their traditions ~ with ways of commuicating as a community
being no exception to that golden rule. For example, history
records that from 1872 until his passing in 1914, Enoch Flanders
served as Newburyport's town crier ~ notably the second
to last such official to serve in that capacity in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.
It was not until the year 1839 that local newspapers published
notices of municipal meetings. Before then, notices about
meetings & other important "matters & things"
were simply posted on the Meetinghouse door. With the
publication & distribution of broadsides & leaflets
~ & with the meetinghouse bell & constable poised
to call the Waterside people to meeting ~ & with ample
meeting places such as the Meetinghouse
(Town Hall the City Hall &
Wolfe Tavern) to come to a meeting of the minds
~ this served the broader community well for generations.
Comity.org follows the tradition
in a new Millennium, by posting
to the "door" of "the Virtual Meetinghouse.".
The Waterside people of Newburyport are known to hold fast
their traditions ~ with ways of commuicating as a community
being no exception to that golden rule. For example, history
records that from 1872 until his passing in 1914, Enoch Flanders
served as Newburyport's town crier ~ notably the second
to last such official to serve in that capacity in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.