Where can you see a portrait of Maria Hastings Cary?

Two oil paintings of her hang in the newly restored oval room located to the right as you come in the front door of the Cary Library. One is of her in her forties painted by Edgar Parker. The other, painted by Charles E. Osgood, a portrait painter in Salem, Mass, is of her as a grand, elderly lady


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Did the town appreciate her during her lifetime? How did a school built in 1955 get named for a lady who lived in the 1800s?