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Article: NEW LIFE FOR AN OLD FACTORY LEPAGE'S INC. COMPLEX IN GLOUCESTER TO BE REBUILT AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2002
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GLOUCESTER - For some, a recent visit to the old LePage's factory
was a trip down memory lane. John Havener talked about fishing after
work for bluegills in Banjo Pond, across a driveway from where fish
glue, mucilage, school paste, and cellophane tape were made for 121
years, until the plant closed in 2001. Phyllis Barratt brought a
camera to photograph the vast spaces where her husband, Alan, his
father, and two of his aunts all once worked.
It was, however, the future that brought these former employees
and more than 100 others to an open house Sunday at the 27-acre
LePage's Inc. property in West Gloucester, a few hundred feet from
the Annisquam River.
The land, including a shimmering ...