Marblehead – An Intact Seafaring Town North of Boston. It's fair to deduce from the cloudtravel page on Newport, Rhode Island that the salty, maritime trading communities of Colonial America are an inspiration to this writer. Nothing quite touches on the basic sense of American entrepeneurship and independence like New England's harbor towns, but few of them survive intact to the present day. A remarkable exception is Marblehead, Massachusetts, just a dozen and a half miles north of Boston's Logan Airport.
Here is a new cloudtravel guide on visiting Marblehead. [cloudtravel]