The next monument placed on Monument Avenue will be notably different from those that stand there now. The order of the names on it will not be alphabetical. They will be determined by a lottery. Town Veterans Service Officer Jim Schultz cites two reasons for this. One: missing names invariably surface over the years. Those who rally the town to build a new monument do their best to advertise their efforts and collect names of all who served in a given war. But the town does not have an archive of veterans’ records, Schultz said. The military stores records. And so names get missed. Take the …
The town’s World War I cannon is getting new wheels and a century of rust removed, says the Haverhill farmer who is reconditioning it. Tyler Kimball was hired for the job by the Swampscott Firefighters Union. On a rainy day in September Kimball sent a flatbed truck to Swampscott. He had the heavy French 75 gun hauled from the cemetery to his 350-acre farm where buffalo roam. Kimball said on Tuesday that he has knocked rust from the artillery piece and is having new wheels built by Amish craftsmen in Lancaster, Pa. He'll attach the new wheels when they arrive from Lancaster, and paint the …
