The USS Constitution's History in Marblehead

Join the Marblehead Museum for the 3rd Annual Ambassador Michael Smith Memorial Lecture. Drawing upon "Old Ironsides'" history from 1814 to the present day, Margherita M. Desy will reflect on moments in the famous warship's history as it intersects with Marblehead and town residents across the past two hundred years. Margherita M. Desy is a curator and historian of New England maritime and early U.S. Navy histories and is employed by the Naval History & Heritage Command Detachment Boston as historian for USS Constitution.