EVERETT — If there’s one thing you can glean from looking at decades-old memorabilia from North Middle School, it’s that 13-year-olds have always been 13-year-olds.

On a hundred-year-old desk, students carved warplanes into the wood and stuck their gum underneath. In an old binder, a student wrote a list of names to keep track of who had a crush on who.

Jenny Overstreet, a teacher at the school and a self-described sentimental person with an interest in the past, has helped gather mementos from North Middle School’s history as part of its 100-year anniversary celebration the school is set to host Saturday.

“I feel personally very rooted in this community and really grateful that I grew up here,” she said.

The site where North Middle School currently sits was a fairground in the early 1

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