Posted on 08/05/04
LIBERTY FRAMED
At half past 7 on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 4, the five selectmen of Marblehead, Mass., sat down for their weekly meeting. This was hardly a surprise: The selectmen, who run the town in place of a mayor and town councillors, have met every week (with exactly two exceptions) since 1648, or about 128 years longer than the United States has been extant.
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