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Northshore October 2025
On Saturday afternoons for the last seven years, Kevin O’Connor, host of PBS’s "This Old House" and "Ask This Old House," has been captured on film climbing and crawling his way through viewers’ houses, remedying their most perplexing home improvement hang-ups. And while O’Connor, who resides in Beverly, has become somewhat of a fixture in homes across the country, what devotees of the shows might not know is that his path to do-it-yourself stardom—and to domestic bliss on the North Shore—was anything but planned. A New Jersey native, O’Connor earned degrees from the College of the Holy Cross in Wo
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