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Northshore October 2025
After a day of holiday shopping in Marblehead, nothing beats a visit to Stowaway Sweets at 154 Atlantic Avenue for a mouthwatering treat. The dark wood mansion sits on a half acre generously dotted with gardens and trees, and it has been home to the famed candies for generations. Visitors enter through the weathered front gate, walk past the koi pond, push open the massive antique door, and step inside a homey room where smells and sights carry them to a bygone era. Three long glass-covered tables made at Burnham & Parker, a Marblehead foundry that once occupied the present site of Stowaway Sweets, are covered with a wide assortment of
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