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Northshore October 2025
  To outsiders, Swampscott may be perceived as a place to drive through on the way to somewhere else. With just 3.1 square miles of land, and not quite 15,000 residents, it’s known mainly as “just sort of a sleepy residential seaside town,” says Beth Balliro, chair of the Swampscott Cultural Council and associate professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. But to people like Balliro, Swampscott is truly a town in the midst of renewal, a place where traditions of community are being rekindled and new life is being breathed into old places.     “Each year it seems like there&rs
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