Good Harbor Beach
Bordering Rockport's Nugent Stretch
By: Charles Giuliano - May 26, 2016
Good Harbor Beach
A wide wedge
From the ocean
Deep into Gloucester
Great Uncle George Nugent’s
Notorious pig farm
Lawsuit went on for years
Tussle over claim
Good Harbor Beach
Settled for a pittance
Back in the twenties
Today we walked
Its broad length
From that iconic house
I sketched as a kid
To nearby Twin Lights
On the other end
Long Beach
Round the bend
Cash cow in the summer
Hefty fee to park
Still pre-season
Got in free
Ancestral right
Gaggle of girls
Pairs and clusters
Trim bodies
Teens in bikinis
Doofus boys playing
Frisbee and football
They catch on slow
Then pay to play
Beauty fades fast
At what a price
George was rich
Powerful in the day
Hobbled with cane
Lost most of a foot
Down on the farm
Came to visit Mom
Settled in Squam
Drank whiskey neat
Kingmaker for
Local politicians
Mayors kissed the ring
Lawyer cheated heirs
Fortune squandered
Landed in jail
Property developed
Now sprawling
Nugent Farms
Name preserved
All that's left
Local legacy
Money long gone
Fed it would seem
To the hogs
Better known as
Lawyers