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Northshore October 2025
  This past May, The Trustees of Reservations kicked off its 125th anniversary with a black-tie gala at Appleton Farms in Ipswich. The glamorous evening was particularly poignant because my now-deceased father, Gordon Abbott Jr., had been executive director of The Trustees from 1966 to 1984, devoting much of his career to essentially fulfilling the mission of landscape architect Charles Eliot, who in 1891 founded the nation’s (and world’s) first land preservation nonprofit “for the purposes of acquiring, holding, maintaining, and opening to the public…beautiful and historic places…within the Commonwealt
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