BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Margie Walker, teen and reference librarian at the Amesbury Public Library show director Erin Matlin, center, and Dorothy Purdy, reference librarian a front page the newspaper Amesbury Village from an 1857 edition. The library is offering old copies of newspapers to patrons online.

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