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Northshore October 2025

Movers and Shakers

The people defining our North Shore experience deserve special recognition.

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A Farmer's Life Michael Smolak is a steward of a multigenerational farm in North Andover.  By Alexandra Pecci Michael Smolak has a memory of bedtime as a child on his family farm in North Andover, where he grew up with his parents, grandparents, and siblings all in one house. The family would call out to each other before going to sleep as they lay in bed at night, their bedroom doors flung open in the 300-year-old homestead. “It was like the Waltons,” he says. “We would say goodnight to each other, but it was in Polish.” Memories are everywhere on the farm, from the Native American arrowheads found on the property that dat
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