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Northshore October 2025
It all started when Jeff Christensen and Marion Godin—siblings who grew up in Newbury—and Marion’s real-estate-developer husband Vincent Godin decided to buy a rundown old house on Plum Island, fix it up, and rent it out to visitors. “Our operation really got started very organically,” Marion Godin says. As that business was getting off the ground, the island’s only liquor store came up for sale, so they bought that too, transforming it in 2015 into The Cottage, a provisions shop where customers can buy a jug of milk, a bottle of wine, an ice cream cone, or a t-shirt, and perhaps rent a paddleboard for the afternoon. They ch
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