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Northshore October 2025
­ The first time I attended Racket Shreve’s annual art show, it was probably over a decade ago. I was new to Salem and felt lucky to be brought along, glimpsing something authentically New England that most visitors to Salem would never see. On a warm, festive evening last fall, Salemites turned up at the Chestnut Street home Shreve shares with his wife, Martha, to see his latest work. Shreve, now 72, busied himself at his framing station while a sea of humanity crammed into his attic studio and leaned in to see the perfect details of the lifelong artist’s latest work. Some of us wondered aloud if there were more ni
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