Page 6 Need a hall for your special event? The Schiavo Club, located at 71 Tileston Street, Everett is available for your Birthdays, Anniversaries, Sweet 16 parties and more? For more info, call (857) 249-7882 JOHN MACKEY & ASSOCIATES ~ Attorneys at Law ~ * PERSONAL INJURY * REAL ESTATE * FAMILY LAW * PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY * LANDLORD/TENANT DISPUTES 14 Norwood Street Everett, MA 02149 Phone: (617) 387-4900 Fax: (617) 381-1755 WWW.JMACKEYLAW.COM THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FriDAy, MAy 31, 2024 ~ The Old Sachem ~ Myles Standish: revered and reviled by history M By Bill Stewart y alma mater, Boston University, decided to remove the name of the dormitory Myles Standish, an English Plymouth Colony military leader. In 1623 he led the massacre at Wessagusset, where the English Pilgrims led the native Massachusetts tribe to a peace dinner before murdering them. Standish beheaded Wituwamat, the tribe’s leader, and publicly displayed the head on a pole for months afterward. Myles Standish was born in 1584 in Lancashire, England, and died October 3, 1656, and was a colonist at Plymouth. He fought in the Netherlands under Queen Elizabeth’s army and became friendly with the exiles who left England over religious issues. These exiles became the Celebrating Our 52nd Year Dan - 1972 We Sell Cigars & Accessories! MAJOR BRANDS AT DISCOUNT PRICES! Singles * Tins * Bundles * Boxes * Travel Humidors * Desk Top Humidors * Many Types of Lighters * Ash Trays * Juuls * Vapes * Glass Pipes * Rewards Program * CBD Infused Products * GIFTS UNDER $30 - GIFT CERTIFICATES Don’t Wait! Get What You Smoke NOW! Buy Your Smokes by the Box & SAVE!! Join Our FREE Rewards Program & SAVE Even More! NEW HOURS STARTING JUNE 1ST: OPEN MON. - SAT., 9 AM - 7 PM / SUN., 9 AM - 6 PM Humidor Specials! Starting as LOW as $99. Complete with Accessories R.Y.O. TOBACCO & TUBES ON SALE! Green Label Cigar Sale! Buy 2 Cigars, Get One FREE! A.B.C. CIGAR 170 REVERE ST., REVERE (781) 289-4959 A GRADUATION HUG: Saugus Public Schools Superintendent Michael Hashem hugged his daughter Rachel after she received her National Honor Society cord at Wednesday’s Scholarship and Academic/Service Awards night. (Saugus Advocate photo by Mark E. Vogler) Chris 2024 Pilgrims who sailed to what was to become Massachusetts and America. He was married twice: fi rst to Rose in 1619, and to Barbara in 1623 in the colony. He had no children from the fi rst marriage, then had fi ve children from the second. Standish served as a military leader for the colony. He learned the local Indian language and led several military expeditions against hostile tribes of the area. Standish organized the deployment of the colony’s cannon. In 1627 he was among the Pilgrim leaders who bought out the colony from British investors. In 1628 he helped break up the religious group of Thomas Morton at Merry Mount, because the Pilgrims considered it too unpuritanical. Morton was a businessman in the colony and authored a book, “New English Canaan,” that ridiculed the Pilgrims’ strict, religious lifestyle, and it became the first book banned in America. Morton established the Wollaston Company and he was considered as a sharp tongued Anglican who poked fun of his strictly religious neighbors, and he erected a maypole where his friends danced around. The Puritans cut down the maypole in 1627, arrested Morton and exiled him to the Isle of Shoals. He escaped to England and returned in two years to the colony only to be arrested again, and his property was confi scatHIGH CLASS | FROM PAGE 5 two previous graduations as principal, said he hopes that several of the members of the Saugus High Class of 2024 will “The Old Sachem,” Bill Stewart. (Courtesy photo to The Saugus Advocate by Joanie Allbee) ed. Morton remained anti-Puritan, and he appears in a novel of Nathanial Hawthorne, “The May-Pole of Merry Mount,” and was later entered into the opera “Merry Mount” in 1934 by Howard Hanson. Standish also served as assistant governor and treasurer of the Plymouth Colony from 1644 to 1649. He left Plymouth for Duxbury in 1631 and remained there until death. In Longfellow’s poem “The Courtship of Myles Standish,” he asked John Alden to propose marriage to Priscilla Mullins, although there is no historical evidence to support the story. He was ostracized for his short stature and encountered much criticism for his quick temper. He was a leader at his time in history, but his actions do not equate to what the current views are. Today he is both honored and vilifi ed for his lifestyle. (Editor’s Note: Bill Stewart, who is better known to Saugus Advocate readers as “The Old Sachem,” writes a weekly column – sometimes about sports. He also opines on current or historical events or famous people.) return to teach in Saugus. “They are great role models for all of my students. I already have former students as staff and welcome them to come back and teach here,” he said.
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