In business for over 50 years, this full-service travel agency prides itself in giving personal service to clients.
Andover Colpitts Travel , now located at 13 Main Street, recently relocated from Andover Village after 10 years. Owner Kasia Miatkowski decided to move when her lease was up, and she could not remain in the courtyard location. Although Andover Village offered her alternative space, she said it was not feasible. Miatkowski said she now loves looking out on Main Street from her second floor office. The only drawback is the stairs to get there. But Miatkowski said that she is happy to meet her customers at Starbucks or anywhere. "My business is not generally walk-in, and I have a laptop," she explained. For over 11 years as owner, Miatkowski, originally from Poland, has built up her travel business with repeat customers and referrals. Prior …
Memorial Hall Library will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the birth of poet Anne Bradstreet, early settler and founder of the new town of Andover.
On Sunday, September 23 at 2pm, Andover’s Susan Lenoe will enact Anne Bradstreet’s tumultuous life, one in which she raised eight children, wrote hundreds of pages of poetry, and supported her husband, Simon Bradstreet, in his public life as secretary and deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1630, eighteen-year-old Anne sailed with her husband and other Puritans, including John Winthrop, to the wild shores and forests of New England. In 1646, after living in several areas in the Massachusetts colony, including Cambridge and Ipswich, the Bradstreets made the Andover area their home until Anne’s death in 1672. In the 17th century, most women could not even read, let alone write, yet Anne was one of the first poets in …
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