Amesbury: About 20 members of the Beacon Hill Scholars group toured the John Greenleaf Whittier Home in Amesbury Thursday afternoon learning about the connection of the Haverhill-born poet and abolitionist William Llyod Garrison who was born in Newburyport. Garrison descendant Horace Seldon, center, leafs through a book from the desk Whittier wrote Snowbound from, with fellow member Carolyn Whiting, left, and Whittier Home president Cynthia Costello. Bryan Eaton/Staff Photo

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