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Northshore October 2025
  As Salem’s most notable literary figure, Nathaniel Hawthorne complained about his hometown, preferring more natural locales with his Transcendentalist friends. Yet, in The Scarlet Letter, he wrote of his inability to never quite leave. Like so many today who seem destined to return to Salem again and again, he wrote, “It was not the first time, nor the second, that I had gone away—as it seemed, permanently—but yet returned, like the bad half-penny; or as if Salem were for me the inevitable centre of the universe.”  With its population of 43,000, Salem can feel like the center of the univers
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