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Northshore October 2025
If you have driven down Hawthorne Boulevard in Salem over the past couple of weeks, you might have noticed five unusual structures seemingly straight out of a fairy tale leaning to and fro on the lawn of the historic Crowninshield-Bentley house situated at the corner of Hawthorne and Essex Streets. This installation, aptly named “What Birds Know,” resembles the nests of several forest-dwelling sprites, a family of very large land birds. Constructed by world-renowned artist Patrick Dougherty and 50 local volunteers over the course of three weeks, the work is part of the Peabody Essex Museum’s Present Tense Initiative, which &
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