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Nestled behind the brick building at 36 Main Street in Amesbury is an artisan chocolate shop called Ovedia that is sure to soon be known as Amesbury’s sweet spot. I discovered the place a week before Valentine’s day in 2007 in a frantic search for sea salt caramels (One of my wife’s favorites) and I [...]

It’s called a shortnose sturgeon, it’s an endangered prehistoric looking fish, and it may stop the city of Haverhill’s plans to dredge the Merrimack River to bring more boaters and business to the city. The Newburyport News reports that dredging the 16-mile channel from Newburyport to Haverhill to bring it to a depth of 8 [...]

The Newburyport Daily News and Boston.com report that an earthquake, measuring 1.8 on the Richter scale, struck Amesbury and Merrimac at 7:15 Monday morning while many residents were getting ready for work. While homes in the area were not shaken, many residents did report hearing a loud bang from the earthquake. The epicenter occurred just [...]

Last Sunday, we couldn’t have asked for a better fall September day to go on our last apple picking trip as a couple. Not wanting to travel far, we went to Amesbury’s own Cider Hill Farm, of which we’re somewhat proud to tell everyone is one of the best apple orchards in Essex County. A [...]

Randye and I were up late this past Saturday night viewing the Perseid meteor shower. Even though this yearly astronomical event peaks on Sunday night, weather forecasts are predicting cloudiness and thunderstorms in our area, so we decided to catch it a day earlier. And boy, was it worth it! For a prime viewing location, [...]

Not one to pass up a salty good story involving local nautical history, I want to share this news item about Graham McKay, a 1997 Amesbury High School graduate. The Newburyport Daily News reports that McKay, studying marine archaeology at the University of Bristol, England, is investigating the ruins of a ship that is half [...]

It seems our neighbors got a little taste of their own aviary medicine. To help raise more money for the Amesbury high school band, we purchased a flock-back. Our neighbors, who flocked us this past fall, got a quick lesson in the migratory patterns of the elusive band flamingo, when a flamboyance of pink flamingoes [...]

It has recently been discovered that the whaleship Essex, who’s misadventure and destruction by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick, was built in Amesbury, Mass. According to a recent article in the Newburyport Daily News, Steve Klomps, the Peabody Essex Museum‘s director of finance and a homeowner [...]