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Northshore October 2025
The facility, tucked away unobtrusively on a side road in downtown Gloucester, is home to The Hive, a local arts center that aims to make the joys of creation available to everyone in the community. Whether you’re an aspiring painter or an amateur potter, The Hive wants to be your artistic home away from home. “If you do art,” says executive director Caleb Friday, “you can come here.” Though The Hive opened in 2012, its story stretches back to 2008, when Gloucester native David Brooks, 19 at the time, decided the city needed after-school arts options for kids. He had dropped out of Gordon College and was tr
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