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Ina Michele Resnikoff / Columnist
The 1962 Swampscott High School yearbook had this to say about Edye Comins Baker: “The talent, high spirits, perseverance which Edye has displayed will be invaluable in her career in the dramatic arts.” Boy, were they right!
The Edye Baker we know has been an energetic and vital resident of Swampscott all her life. She has reached so many residents and has left an indelible impression in every precinct. Her neighbors love her for many reasons but her annual elaborate, creative Halloween open-house tops everything.
Until the arrival of COVID and necessary isolation, the Bakers have entertained thousands of locals, visitors and strangers on Oct. 31, inviting them in and providing an abundance of food, decoration and Halloween fun. The Bakers have photos mounted as a collage, 45 years of Halloween open-houses.
Ina Michele Resnikoff
This is the first of eight profiles about outstanding men and women of Swampscott. I hope you will enjoy reading them. Next year, we’ll do it again but have you, the readers, nominate the residents.
Ralph Edwards is an icon of social justice. He grew up in the deep South during the time of the Civil Rights Movement. “I grew up under apartheid!”
Segregation was thoroughly and brutally enforced. Edwards came from a close, loving and large extended family. He was raised in the house where his mother, Lois, was born. Her mother, Eliza (MaMa) lived there as did his Uncle Ralph. Others uncles and aunts lived nearby and cousins were raised as siblings, and they remain brothers and sisters to this day.