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Northshore October 2025
The controversy surrounding the relocation of Peabody Essex Museum’s (PEM) Phillips Library is fueled by a shared passion to preserve the country’s oldest and largest archival collection in the most favorable way possible. Everyone at the proverbial table shares this mission, no matter their position on the issues surrounding the move from Salem to Rowley. With roots that reach back to 1799, the first incarnation of Phillips Library functioned as “a working library for which the practical execution of the plan and the collection of the necessary books should be an object of the first importance.” Today, its mission is “to collect
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