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Rockport Harbor’s icon has its own biography

By Joel Brown

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 29, 2011

Lots of people know about Motif No. 1 in Rockport, but few know how it came to be such an icon of this Cape Ann village and its artist colony. Now author L.M. Vincent tells the whole tale in his “In Search of Motif No. 1,’’ a new paperback from the History Press subtitled “The History of a Fish Shack.’’

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