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Suzanne DeWitt

Suzanne DeWitt Hall is a former high tech journalist and Internet marketing business owner who now works on writing the great American novel. She is mildly obsessed with vintage cookbooks, recipe boxes and the intersection of sexuality and theology. She lives blissfully in Newburyport with her partner, a cat named Chicken and a wire fox terrier. You can reach her through her website, SMDeWitt.com.

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Yankee Doodle Pudding

Hasty pudding is a slow-cooked concoction of corn meal, milk, eggs, molasses and spices. Perfect for the cold, with rich historical roots.

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Community
The Club that Wool Built

Andover’s Lanam Club was established in 1957 by a group of businessmen and named to reflect the region: L for Lawrence, A for Andover, NA…

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Holiday Bitz – Remembering Robert Goulet

Entertainment icon and supercrooner Robert Goulet was born in Lawrence in 1933. He lived in the city’s Tower Hill neighborhood until he was 13.

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Holiday Bitz – Vintage “Kitschen”: Newburyport Art Association Cookbook

Community cookbooks are time capsules in print, capturing eras, locations, and sometimes even subcultures. They also can make you giggle.

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Newburyport Ghost Hunter

In a region as old as ours, reports of hauntings are plentiful. And when there are ghosts, there are sure to be people who hunt them.

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Little Bitz – Tewksbury Miracle Worker Anne Sullivan

The story of Helen Keller and her teacher has roots in the MV, as depicted by a remarkable sculpture in Tewksbury.

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Community
Little Bitz – Louis Cyr – World’s Strongest Man

DYK that the world’s strongest man lived right here in the Valley? Louis Cyr apparently got his strength from his mother’s side.

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A Piglet and a Pound

Did you ever wonder why animal shelters used to be called pounds? The structures were used to house animals that wandered around getting into trouble.

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Queen of the Big Top

Helen Gertrude Swasey was well known in her hometown of Haverhill from the time she was a young girl until her death in 1934. She was…

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Duston-Dustin Garrison House

Haverhill’s hometown heroes tend to have a little badass in them – Andre Dubus III and Rob Zombie for example. Hannah Duston certainly was one in the 1600s.

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Little Bitz – Adventureland Memories

Adventureland in Newbury didn’t last long, but memories of the place are alive and well.

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Stop by the Emma L. Andrews Library & Community Center in Newburyport and experience how libraries used to work. You won’t find bar codes or…

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