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Peabody’s Black Box Theater is breaking down walls

By | October 19, 2017

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Northeast Arc CEO Jo Ann Simons takes a swing at a wall to start construction of the Black Box Theater in Peabody.

(Photo by Spenser R. Hasak)

Black Box wall breaking

Peabody City Councilor-at-Large Tom Gould thanks the crowd for turning out at the wallbreaking of the Black Box Theater in Peabody.

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Black Box wall breaking

A crowd gathers for the wallbreaking of the Black Box Theater in Peabody.

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Black Box wall breaking

Jonathan Berk of Patronicity, a crowd-funding site that helped raise funds for the Black Box Theater in Peabody, takes a swing during the wallbreaking for the prohect on Thursday.

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Peabody Mayor Edward A. Bettencourt Jr. takes the first swing into the wall to start construction on the Black Box Theater.

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Black Box wall breaking

"X" marks the spot where the wallbreaking for the Black Box Theater took place at Northeast Arc in Peabody on Thursday.

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Black Box wall breaking

Hard hats are ready for the wallbreaking of the Black Box Theater at Northeast Arc in Peabody on Thursday.

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Black Box wall breaking

Northeast Arc hosted the wallbreaking for the Black Box Theater project on Thursday.

(Photo by Spenser R. Hasak)

Black Box wall breaking

The aftermath of the wallbreaking for the Black Box Theatre in Peabody.

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PEABODY — The Northeast Arc is used to breaking down walls in a metaphoric sense. But on Thursday morning, the North Shore nonprofit was literally knocking down walls with sledgehammers…
Adam Swift The editor of the Peabody and Lynnfield Weekly News, Adam joined Essex Media Group in 2016. He is a graduate of Bridgewater State University, and previously worked for the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Middleboro Gazette, and several other weekly newspapers in Massachusetts. In addition to helming Essex Media Group’s two weekly newspapers, Adam covers Peabody and Lynnfield for the Daily Item. You can follow Adam on Twitter @swiftnews774.

Adam Swift can be reached at aswift@itemlive.com

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