BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Summer intern Alexis Quirk, left, talks to Andrew Stangle, 12, about the life of a horseshoe crab at a touch tank at the Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport. The youngster was visiting the area with his family from Winthrop, they had lived in Amesbury before.

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