Where the river keeps moving and Beef Country keeps pace.
Up the valley, nobody at the Beef counter needs the menu.
Lowell is Jack Kerouac’s hometown, and its old mills are now part of a national park. John Greenleaf Whittier grew up on a farm in Haverhill, and Robert Frost finished high school in Lawrence.
In Lawrence, the “Immigrant City,” the Ayer Mill clock still keeps time over the city. When Malden Mills burned there in December 1995, owner Aaron Feuerstein kept paying his workers while he rebuilt.
Phillips Academy has been in Andover since 1778, and Brooks School is up the road in North Andover. Both towns know a thing or two about prep schools and late-night Beef runs.
Around the region
Dracut’s back roads still wind past barns and stone walls, and Tewksbury keeps a foot in both city and farm. The Great Organ that once played Boston’s Music Hall now sits in Methuen, in a hall built just to hold it.
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