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Northshore October 2025
Jeffrey Donovan, an Amesbury native, plays Michael Westen on USA Network's Burn Notice Amesbury native and star of TV's Burn Notice Jeffrey Donovan attributes his success in Hollywood to his more humble North Shore roots. by Julia Quinn-Szcesuil - photograph by Jim Fiscus When Jeffrey Donovan recalls his Amesbury childhood, he doesn't wax poetic about Fourth of July celebrations or football pep rallies. Instead, he immediately praises former Amesbury High School English teacher Patty Hoyt, the woman who started him on his path to acting. Donovan recalls that when he first started reading Shakespeare in Hoyt's class, it was almost lik
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