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There are three things oil painter Denise Delaney wants you to know about her home in Annisquam: It was originally a boat-building shed, it’s been an artist studio for almost a century, and The Sound of Music may have been written there. “Northern Cape Ann was a big granite quarrying area,” Delaney says, noting that the industry boomed from the 1820s to the 1930s. “The granite was brought into Lobster Cove, where it was put on schooners and shipped out to Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. The granite from those quarries was used for the Boston and Baltimore post offices, the Longfellow Bridge in Cambridge, the Brooklyn Bridge in
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