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Off to Charlie's House
Fr. Peter Gori of St. Augustine Church in Andover, celebrated a Send Off Mass on Sunday, Feb. 14, for those going to Jamacia this week. A St. A's team is building a house in memory of former selectman and longtime resident and parishoner Charlie Wesson. He died last September.
Wesson's widow, Mary Wesson of Andover, is on this team and packed a picture of Charlie along with all those tools. The photograph will be given to the family who will be moving into "Charlie's House." The house-building team from St. Augustine also includes Wesson's daughter, Anne-Marie Yastrzemski; Caitlin Kennedy, Bri Bickley, Greg Rickenbacker, James Kerrigan, Jack LeBlanc, Jen LeBlanc, Rosian Bermingham, Jeannie Scarpa, Tom Rickenbacker, Barry Bickley, Dana Lanio and Katie LeBlanc.
— Judy Wakefield
Different kind of island living
While the new movie "Shutter Island" opens tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 19, an Andover author already knows all about its spookiness. That's because author Christopher Klein wrote "Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands: A Guide to the City's Hidden Shores." Movie scenes were filmed on the islands he researched.
This Martin Scorsese thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley is set in the 1950s on a remote and barren island in Boston Harbor that houses an asylum for the criminally insane. Shutter Island and Ashecliffe Hospital may be fictitious, but the use of the Boston Harbor Islands to sequester Boston's unwanted is all too true.
"Reformatories, asylums, poorhouses, hospitals and prisons were situated on many of the harbor islands. Likewise, as many as four islands were the home to quarantine stations, which protected the city from outbreaks of smallpox and other deadly diseases," accoring to Klein.
— Judy Wakefield
Art info Feb. 21
On Sunday Feb. 21 from 2 to 4 p.m., the Andovers Artists Guild will host a lecture on Open Studios by Haverhill painter/Sculptor Jeff Grassie.
The lecture will take place at the North Parish Church, North Andover, at the corner of Academy and Great Pond Roads. For more information call Nella at 978-975-0015. Meetings are free to members and a guest donation of $5 is suggested.
Chinese performers to offer performance, yo-yo lessons
A local Chinese folk art group will perform at the Andover High School Collins Center on March 6 at 2 p.m. to help raise scholarship money for a school for migrant worker's children in China.
The tickets cost $8 for general admission, and $5 for seniors and children 12 and under. The performers range in age from 12 to 18 and will perform some traditional Chinese dances, a drum routine, a Chinese diablo routine, yoyo and other activities.
After the performance, the performers will demonstrate the Chinese yoyo and the kids can try them, according to Andover resident Jane Wang. Tickets are available at the door.
Wang's oldest son, Brendan, went to China and taught English at a middle school outside of Beijing, called the Dandelion Middle School, which was founded to serve the children of migrant workers in the surrounding areas, she said in a release. Because they are not full-time residents in the towns they work in migrant workers can have difficulty findin an affordable school. The Dandelion Middle School offers tuition for only $200 US a year, but that can still be too much for some families.
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Scout brings new boardwalk to Pustell Reservation
Eagle Scout candidate Evan Doyle, 15, of Andover stands with Conservation Commission Project Manager Bob Decelle at the edge of a 60-foot boardwalk Doyle built that allows people to cross the Pustell Reservation to other green areas of town.
Move over Snookie! Andover has a brand new boardwalk in town.
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Andover's boardwalk story has a lot less drama than Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi's reality TV show Jersey Shore, set on a New Jersey boardwalk. Here, it's all about an Andover teen who simply wanted to do something nice for his hometown. -
Pair return from four years at sea
After nearly four years of living afloat, Sara and Bob Knapp of 1 Woodland Road sailed back into their home port of Salem, Mass. earlier this month with their yellow labrador, Bentley aboard.
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The couple reported visiting 70 islands, representing 23 countries, 11 currencies and six languages. -
Dalton column: Readers recall the great storms of '54
"During the hurricane several huge pines fell across Abbot Street near where I lived as a girl. Fortunately, they fell on open space and no houses were damaged," wrote Margaret Blake in response to my column about the two summer storms of 1954. The first and more violent of the two storms was Hurricane Carol, which was the storm Margaret mentioned. It had top winds of 125 mph and was followed by the flooding rains of Hurricane Edna two weeks later.
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