A poignant aspect of this year’s observance will be the participation of Sasha Ganezer, a Marblehead High School senior and grandchild of Holocaust survivors, who will share her grandparents’ stories.

It’s been at the forefront of Marblehead’s history pretty much since the coastal North Shore town was founded around 1690. Known first as Ye Way and then Ye Street, it became Front Street around 1801, ...