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Northshore October 2025
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan has moved several times during her museum career, taking along seashells collected from beaches all over the world. Bags are marked with the date and location of their discovery.  “I love the ocean and the act of beachcombing. There is something mesmerizing about the activity of walking along the water’s edge and looking down,” says Hartigan, who returned in August to the Peabody Essex Museum as its new executive director and CEO. “I think there is this compulsion to acquire some part of nature and keep it with you.” Back on the North Shore, Hartigan’s next collecting goal is sea glass.  PEM’s
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