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Raising the Bahhh: North Andover to Hold Sheep-Shearing Festival Sunday

The annual event is a favorite in town.

It's springtime in North Andover, and that means arts, crafts and sheep.

The will be held Sunday at the Old Common along Massachusetts Avenue.

There will be sheep shearing and herding, of course, but there will also be lots of food, hand-crafted jewelry, wool-spinning, regional crafters and other festival treats. The North Andover Merchants Association will be there, and Cookie Central will be selling baked goods.

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The will benefit Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale to battle childhood hunger in America.

There will also be an hosted by the North Andover Historical Society and the Herb Society of Andover.

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The festival was started almost 40 years ago and is an annual celebration of the town's wool industry roots. In the dawn of the textile age, North Andover prospered with wool mills. In the early 1800s, Nathaniel Stevens established the first of nearly a dozen wool mills that would help drive the Stevens family, and the town, into prosperity. Today, the event raises money for other annual events that follow.

The Sheep Shearing Festival is sponsored by the North Andover Festival Committee and is free and open to all.


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