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Living in Massachusetts
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Massachusetts can shop for arts, crafts and antiques. Essex, 23
mi/36 km northeast of Boston, has more antique stores in a
1-mi/1.6-km corridor than anywhere we've been in New England.
Brimfield is home to the largest outdoor antique shows in New
England, with more than 5,000 dealers from around the country.
Rockport, a fishing village-turned-artists colony, is heaven for
serious buyers and window shoppers alike: Shops, restaurants and
galleries line Bearskin Neck, a long stretch of restored
fishers' cottages. In Deerfield, hundreds of craftspeople and
artisans gather at the Old Deerfield Craft Fair twice yearly, in
summer and autumn. Gardner earned fame as a
furniture-manufacturing town, producing hundreds of thousands of
Windsor chairs. Nowadays, factory stores there continue to sell
Early American furnishings.
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