Coast in its essentials

“Mother’s Islands” (print) by Swampscott, Mass.-based artist Lydia N. Breed (1925-2019) in the show “Lydia N. Breed: Art of a Community Legacy,’’ at the Lynn (Mass.) Museum, through Sept. 23.

Downtown Lynn. The city once called itself the Shoe (making) Capital of the world.

— Photo by Terageorge

In Swampscott, White Court, now torn down, where President Calvin Coolidge and his wife spent much of the summer of 1925 as the guests of the rich Ohio family who summered there.