Libraries of the North Shore

Libraries of the North Shore embrace the past and welcome the future. As a society founded upon great minds that include the likes of George Peabody, founder of the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers, North Shore writers, readers, and thinkers take natural refuge in the region’s libraries. Our libraries are both museums of the past and galleries of the present; they combine our love of history and thirst for knowledge with our need for community involvement and amusement. Many of us have grown up taking libraries for granted and assuming they will always be there, as cool oases on afternoons too hot for the beach or free

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