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All too many artists have gone before their time: van Gogh, Poe, Pollock, Rimbaud…. Arthur Fiedler, longtime conductor of the Boston Pops, made it to 84, having famously said that “to rest is to rot.” Not resting on her considerable laurels is local artist-legend Beth Batchelor. Batchelor recently turned 100, and more than a hundred […]

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