What does Swampscott think is the best Valentine's Day gift?
Couples will celebrate Valentine's Day by giving gifts. Below are some traditional love tokens. Well, maybe not the Bruins tickets. What's your favorite, whether giving or receiving?
Find your sweetheart's bouquet at these Swampscott and Marblehead florists.
Valentines Day is six days away. Time to start thinking flowers. Below are places to buy a bouquet. Patch Picks: Florists
With Swampscott's ideal location on the coast, and several lovely spots in and around town, The Patch asked men and women from the community the best spots to "pop the question" in the 01907 zip code.
With a great view of the Atlantic Ocean, the Boston skyline, wonderful sunrises and lovely sunsets, Swampscott’s a great place to make a marriage proposal. “There are several great spots to ask, or to be asked, to get married,” Cindy said. “I think the perfect place would be behind the Hawthorne, at sunset, on a great day with chilled champagne on hand and nice music playing, it should be some slow music, so after the question is asked, we could do some slow dancing.” “At Last, by Etta James would be a good song to play for our slow dance,” Cindy said. "Even more important than Etta James, you've got to have strawberries dipped in whipped cream to top it off." Other people questioned also gave a big thumbs up to Swampscott's spot on the…
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Valentines memories from local families and couples on how they met their dogs.
To say that the Cooper family is a dog family is an understatement. We’ve got two dogs in the house on Muriel Road, and I can’t remember a time, with the exception of dorm life in college, when I did not live with a puppy dog. The Coopers lived on Walker Road in Swampscott in the 1960’s and our cousins lived in Wakefield which, to a 5-year-old, might as well have been Western Canada. One summer the Cooper’s got in the station wagon and headed off to Wakefield, mom, dad and three boys, ages 5, 3 and 1, and we brought the collie along, Cammie. On the way home, on what I would later learn was Highland Avenue, Keith the 1-year-old got sick, and we pulled over on what I now know is Danvers/Swampscott Road next to the Salem Transfer Station. …
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Patricia
2:33 pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
One week after losing my best friend of 6 years to a horrific sudden illness my husband suggested we go to the Northeast Animal Shelter and meet a hound puppy he stopped by to see. My emotions came into play and I needed convincing this was the thing to do, you know, give another beautiful soul a chance at a happy life in a forever home. It did not take long for me to hug the little guy (he is … more ›