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Northshore October 2025
The first time Oliver Barker visited the Cape Ann Museum, 20 years ago, he was a tourist. He and his wife, whose Gloucester roots go back five generations, went to see a chisel that had belonged to her great-grandfather, who had worked in the region’s thriving granite industry.  Barker, today a Wenham resident, was enchanted even then with the museum’s deep sense of place. But he could not have known at the time that he would one day end up as the institution’s director, helping guide it through an expansion, a global pandemic, and its evolution into the digital age. “It was not foreseen, but very much welcome,” he says, sit
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