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MVM May June 2009




Merrimack Valley Magazine is your guide to community, culture and cuisine in the Merrimack Valley. From Manchester to Nashua, through Lowell, Andover and Haverhill and out to the sea in Newburyport, we uncover the Valley’s “hidden gems,” on both sides of the border be they a person, a place or anything that is unique to the place we call home.

In the Current Issue:

unique. man, music and guitar.

The word “independent” looms large in the current lexicon of music terminology, a moniker that is now applied to artists and record labels of varying size and degree of true independence. For an artist like guitarist Johnny A., being independent is not the result of being on the outside looking in, but is a statement of his art, his style and his vision of how honest instrumental music is made. Read More PDF

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Salem CoOp
 
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Jaymes Fund
 
Foot Health Center
 
Cobblestones
 
MVM Info
 
MOONSTONES
 
MV Arts

spirits of summer
summer drinks

There is no better time than summer to sit back and enjoy a refreshing cocktail. Finding just the drink to please your palate, however, isn’t always easy. Centro Restaurant in Lowell solves this dilemma by offering a menu of cocktails where you are sure to find exactly what you desire. Centro’s inventive drink recipes are as inviting and beautiful as their metropolitan dining room and bar, decorated in cool blues and rich browns... Subscribe »

the art of upcycling
Chair

Using our own local sources and talent, we found it possible to create a fashionable look for significantly less than retail prices. Follow the journey of one Merrimack Valley chair through the process. Merrimack Valley Magazine will hold a silent auction for the chair featured in the article with all proceeds going to Jayme's Fund for Social Justice.

Click here for auction information »
shelter me
Cat

The faces of today’s bleak economic landscape come in many shapes and sizes. The ones often overlooked are those of beloved pets left behind due to home foreclosures or other financial hardships. Countless pets have been surrendered or abandoned, creating a flood of homeless animals in shelters across the nation. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, up to one million pets are...   Subscribe »

local brews
Beer

It’s the Fourth of July and chances are you’re spending the day at a barbecue, enjoying more than your usual share of hamburgers and hot dogs as you await the evening’s spectacular fireworks display. Ah, but there’s something else that’s most likely part of the mix, something that has become so engrained in American culture, it’s right up there with apple pie, baseball and the Bald Eagle: beer. Independence Day is the biggest...  Subscribe »
lowell boat shop   ( from the archives - summer '07 )
Lowell Boat

Hard as it is to imagine, 250 years ago two dozen shipyards jostled for a slice of the Merrimack along what we now know as Amesbury’s Point Shore. Shipyards outnumbered homes two-to-one. Stacks of lumber obstructed Main Street traffic. Wielding adzes and caulking hammers, 2,000 shipwrights swarmed over the decks of everything from privateers to schooners. Simeon Lowell, a comparative latecomer, opened his boat shop here in 1793...  Read More PDF