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Bakers Island in Salem Sound
Bakers Island in Salem Sound
For sixteen days this September, Essex Heritage’s Trails and Sails turns the landmarks you drive past every day into more than two hundred free things to do.
One-woman bakery Sweet Botanical Bakes presses edible garden flowers into shortbread.
Explore six regions that give the North Shore its nuanced sense of place.
Massachusetts oyster reefs are functionally extinct. On piers from Newburyport to Gloucester, a small nonprot is growing the shellsh that could help clean up North Shore waters.
Two neighboring North Shore towns have spent generations guarding their open space and small-town traditions—while quietly making room to evolve.
Last summer it was Beverly. This year the crown moves a few exits down Route 128.