The Westerly Sun

CHARLESTOWN — Andrew Baer and Megan Moynihan sat inside their subtly sophisticated Charlestown home one recent afternoon talking about their stunning collection of black and white photographs, all taken with a 1938 Leica camera by Baer's father, the late John Baer, one of the founders of the Salt Ponds Coalition.

Although Andrew said he was always aware of the existence of the photos — in fact he's always had a few framed pieces of his father's work hanging on his walls — it wasn't until he and Moynihan "took the plunge" and opened the boxes he'd been lugging around for three decades that he discovered "the full heft of his father's photographic life," as the writer Cherie Louise Turner put it in an introductory essay she wrote about the Baer collection.

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