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By Paul Gauvin pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com PAUL GAUVIN PHOTO HISTORY TO BOOT - Director Randall Hoel of the Centerville Historical Museum holds 19th century boot worn by sea captain and Boston restaurateur Russell Marston, whose family gave Marstons Mills its name. N ancy Sinatra's boots were made for walkin' - and Russell Marston 's 19th century boots , which are still around and inspired this report - were made for talkin'. So let's talk. Russell Marston , who lived off and on in Centerville and elsewhere , was heir of early settlers dating back to the 1600s and while each generation filled their progenitors ' boots quite well, only one pair remains in existence, it is believed. You can see them at the Centerville Histori- cal Museum at 513 Main St., in Centerville village, of which Marstons Mills was once a part. They are a young boy's boots with quite a family history tucked inside them. The Marston family era on the Cape began with Benjamin , born in Salem and arriving on the Cape from Taunton. He built a gristmill in the Centerville boondocks , and then bought "carding" and "full- ing" mills in the same area that had been earlier built by the Macy family. Carding "disentangles " wool fibers which then emerge as a thin film called a "web" while "full- ing" is to increase the weight of cloth by shrink- ing, beating or pressing. Using the Marston family name for a village was a good idea as succeeding generations proved, as the family possessed generous doses of business acumen , civic-mindedness and a thirst for adventure. Through the generations the Marston boys married into other well-known Cape families whose surnames are familiar to this day - Blish, Crosby, Scudder, - and made reputations for themselves as business- men, sea captains, soldiers and civic and political lead- ers, albeit most of them didn't spend all that much time on the Cape. During the war of 1812, Harvard graduate Nym- phas, his brother Prentice and cousin Clement served in Capt. Alvin Crocker 's company of the Mas- sachusetts Militia, all as privates. Nymphas, an early 19th century family member, be- came an attorney, a state representative and finally a county probate judge. Other descendants went to sea, such as Capt. Zenas Marston , a master deep-water mariner whose schooner plied the East Coast trade routes carry- ing bulk cargoes. When he died in 1885 and was bur- ied in Oak Grove Cemetery in Hyannis, he willed his estate including his ship to his younger brother, Rus- sell, whose boots and other items of antiquity still survive at the museum. Russell was not a native Cape Codder either. He was born in Boston and went to sea when he was only 9 years old as a cabin boy and cook - the latter sea duty inspiring in him a successful business ven- ture later in life. By 1847, Russell was cap- tain of his own schooner which he sold , surrendered his sea legs and opened his first Marston 's restaurant in Boston , a 10-seat shanty on Commercial Wharf featuring, you guessed it, clam chowder. His restaurant business expanded to three well- known Boston eateries - dishes of which are also at the Centerville museum. With success came con- struction of a Victorian manse at 454 Main St., Centerville. Ru&sell was an abolition- ist who, it is said, helped at least one slave to freedom and whose res- taurants in Boston at the time were the only ones to welcome blacks. His son, Howard , took over the restaurant busi- ness and expanded it with two partners until at one point the chain reportedly served 10,000 meals a day. In 1881, Howard built the now-established Fern- brook , a 14-acre estate across from his father 's home. The estate itself attracted other famous names of the day - Car- dinal Spellman of New York, a frequent visitor, and Herbert Kalmus, MIT graduate and inventor of Technicolor, who eventual- ly purchased the property as a summer retreat where Kalmus hosted many movie stars, Walt Disney, and presidents Kennedy and Reagan. Were it not for Kalmus, the Town of Barnstable , Hyannis in particular, might have had one less beach to go to. He donated land at the entrance to the inner harbor known as Dunbar 's Point , which is today Kalmus Beach. "What's in a name?" we often ask, but also, what's in a pair of young boy's boots? A lot of history. Added information on the Marston family is available in books and mementoes at the museum and at www.catboat.com /b&b/history.html Marston boy's boots filled with history j^H_^HH9|HB9^H Winter Street, Hyannis wl pMp_E*f * ~—... 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Do you know where your services come from - your water,police protection , edu- cation , fire and emergency, "public " libraries ," snow removal, community services like the harbor, beaches , recreation , senior and youth services? The majority of services that keep us run- ning come from the Town of Barnstable. Some people have wells; others have distinct Water Districts that oversee the public water supply and allof us are covered by one of five Fire Districts that provide fire protection and emer- gency services. The services provided by the Water and Fire Districts are excellent with exceptional person- nel. Each of these separate entities has different struc- tures as they were created independently of the Town, whichdoes add to the unique qualities of Barnstable. Each of the seven libraries are public in the sense we have access to them; how- ever, they are in fact private and are reliant on grants and donations from patrons to keep them open. The Town does in fact provide a mea- sure of support , but none are the responsibility of the Town of Barnstable. On this note, please re- member that the Marstons Mills Library has been faced withaseriousfinancial short- age and has already cut hours. Please come out and support our Library and in particular the fabulous op- portunity for two tickets for Field Box Seats to asold out Red Sox vs. Yankees game on Saturday Aug. 19, at Fen- way Park (1:20 p.m.). Raffle tickets are $10 or the bargain opportunity of three for $25 and can be purchased at the Library. Drawing willbe held on Sunday, July 23, at 3p.m. at Liberty Hall.The events of the day willinclude ahot dog barbeque and ashort talk by Steve Weissman, author of Beach Chairs and Baseball Bats. Now that'swhat I call a hazy, lazy day of summer. Although there isno simple answer to the question of wherewelive,theTownCoun- cil is responsible for making decisions that impact every citizen in the whole com- munity. 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