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SALEM — It’s been installed and dedicated. Now, the latest memorial honoring two legends in Salem’s military history needs just a little more cash to cross the finish line.
The Andover National Bank, originally located where the Bank of America stands today, at 23 Main Street, opened for business July 1, 1826. It celebrated 120 years of banking the
New Light: Blyth Spirits Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. In 2005 the Maine auction house F. O. Bailey Antiquarians offered a late eighteenth-century oil portrait of Nancy Bezoil Lane and her daughter Betsy as a painting “in the manner of Joseph Badger.” Marvin Sadik—by then an art dealer, but formerly the director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC—bought it with a winning bid of $32,480. He had recognized the portrait as the work of the Salem, Massachusetts, artist Benjamin Blyth, an attribution based on the painting’s subject, its composition, its chara...