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Eleven historic bells chime daily on top of the high bell tower at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Salem. One of them dates back to 1740, where its tolled for the death of every president preceding George H.W. Bush.

In January 2018, a series of three snowstorms destroyed the mechanism that rings each of the bells, says the Rev. Nathan Ives, priest in charge at the church.

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