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Photo: Christine M. Quirk/The Concord Bridge

Truly a home, sweet home

By Christine M. Quirk — [email protected]

If it’s the holiday season, there must be a gingerbread house greeting visitors to the Concord Free Public Library. 

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Photo: Christine M. Quirk/The Concord Bridge

Each year, Emerson general surgeon Andrea Resciniti sets her scalpel aside and creates a scrumptious masterpiece to display in the library. 

This is the doctor’s 30th year of culinary construction and 17th gingerbread house donated to the library.

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The doctor and her handiwork. Courtesy photo

A card next to the candy-festooned house reveals it took 28 batches of gingerbread and a month of work and is the tallest house Resciniti has built. It features Christmas trees, angels, snowmen, Santa Claus, and eight tiny reindeer with one red-nosed leader.

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Photo: Christine M. Quirk/The Concord Bridge

The house will be on display through mid-January.

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