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Northshore October 2025
For the past couple of years, a volunteer at the Cape Ann Museum’s satellite campus would notice something interesting every time it rained: As she walked along the part of the property near the historic Babson-Alling House, she often found small items in the mud. She picked up an old metal shoe buckle, a miniature ceramic doll, shards of pottery and glassware. “That let us know there were things of interest here,” museum director Oliver Barker says. Intrigued, the museum contacted the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and arranged for historical archaeologist Christa Beranek and a
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