To all who knew him and loved him please feel free to come, share stories and celebrate his life ❤️

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August 28, 2026 ~ Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce ~ 

Main Street is closing down and coming alive for Gloucester Block Party #3!  Bring your crew, your dancing shoes, and your appetite for a jam-packed night of live music, incredible street performers, and local flavor.

 WHEN: Friday, September 4 | 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Streets close at 5 PM)
 WHERE: Main Street, Downtown Gloucester, MA
 ADMISSION: Completely FREE!

 3 STAGES OF LIVE MUSIC (Starting at 6 PM):

• The West End: Toni & the Treblemakers (6 PM) | Allen Estes (8 PM)
• Cape Ann Savings Park: Dogtown (6 PM) | Jim ‘N Tonic (8 PM)
• The East End: In the Pocket (6 PM) | Tony Kaczynski (8 PM)

 FAMILY FUN & SPECIAL GUESTS:

• Live performances by The Real McCoy (6:15 & 7:30 PM)
• Meet the Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team Reptiles 
• Face Painting by Miss Wendy 
• Sword Play with Captain Jack 

Dozens of your favorite downtown shops, local restaurants, food vendors, and artisans will be open late with special block party deals! 

Don’t miss the ultimate celebration on Cape Ann. Tap the link below to view the full lineup and RSVP!

 Get the Full Event Schedule Here: bit.ly/BlockParty-Sept4

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The Hills are Alive…

LANDINGS 3 VISIONS

Tom Glover, Vanessa Michalak, and Jan Roy

Exhibition Dates: September 4 – October 11, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, September 4, 5:00–7:00 PM
Artist Talk: Friday, September 11, 5:00 PM

COSMOS Gallery
20 Pleasant Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
Exhibition website: Landings 3 Visions

THREE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS TRANSFORM THE ENDURING TRADITION OF PAINTING PLACE

For centuries, artists have looked to the landscape not simply to record the visible world, but to interpret it. From the idealized vistas of the Renaissance through Impressionism and abstraction, successive generations have reconsidered what a painting of a place can be. In contemporary painting, the landscape may remain recognizable—or become only the point of departure.

LANDINGS 3 VISIONS

The next exhibition at COSMOS Gallery in Gloucester, Landings 3 Visions, opens September 4 and features three accomplished New England artists: Tom Glover, Vanessa Michalak, and Jan Roy. Each is an accomplished contemporary landscape artist, and together their paintings explore the territory between observation and interpretation.

Land, sea, forests, rocks, harbors, boats, and the built environment provide the elements; their three visions explore what happens between seeing a place and making a painting of it.

Tom Glover explores the New Hampshire and Maine seacoast through its harbors, estuaries, docks, rocks, boats, water, and changing coastal light. Glover’s artistic interpretation of the natural scenery exists in the space between realism and abstraction. This practice reflects the longtime influence of painter John Laurent (1921–2005), an American painter renowned for landscapes along the Maine coast. Glover may begin with direct experience, photographs, and sketches, but then uses abstraction to distill a scene, finding its essential forms and colors. Artist website:  Tom Glover

Vanessa Michalak, a Maine native and Gloucester-based artist, approaches the visible world with an exuberant vocabulary of color and expressive gestures. Forests, rocks, water, gardens, boats, and harbors remain recognizable in her paintings, yet observed forms become scaffolding for something more painterly: flattened shapes, unexpected color, energetic strokes, and rhythmic movement across the canvas. As Michalak explains, her paintings are often driven by her love of “expressive mark making versus subject matter alone,” with nature providing a continual source of inspiration. Artist website:  Vanessa Michalak

Jan Roy takes the transformation of place further. Beginning as a silk-screen artist before focusing primarily on oil painting, Roy brings a strong graphic structure to landscapes, harbors, architecture, and other observed environments. Recognizable imagery may remain, but it is compressed, fragmented, and reorganized into interlocking planes of color and shape, bringing the landscape to the threshold of abstraction. Artist website: Jan Roy

Seen together, the three artists reveal how elastic the centuries-old tradition of landscape painting has become. Glover distills the physical experience of a place; Michalak releases its energy through color and mark; Roy reorganizes it toward abstraction. None abandons the visible world. Each makes something distinctly personal from it.

The title LANDINGS 3 VISIONS reflects that common ground. A landing can be a shoreline, an arrival, or a point of encounter. In these paintings, it also suggests the place where observation meets imagination—three artists arriving at three very different visual conclusions.

LANDINGS 3 VISIONS continues COSMOS Gallery’s focus on contemporary art by accomplished regional artists and on exhibitions that place their work within broader currents in art and culture.

The exhibition runs September 4 through October 11, 2026. The public is invited to meet the artists at the opening reception on Friday, September 4, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. An artist talk will be held on Friday, September 11, at 5:00 PM. Admission is free.

The joys of September at Rose Baker. Cooler weather and the start of leaves turning. Daily activities can be found by going to www.gloucester-ma.gov, clicking on Departments and scrolling down to the Council on Aging. You can see our newsletter or call 978-325-5812 to get on our mailing list. For events indicating registration, please stop by or call Natalia at the above phone number. Follow us on Facebook – Rose Baker Senior Center Gloucester

Special things going on:

September 3 – 10:30 – Start of Fishtown Players Readers Theater’s 6 week program.

September 9^th – 10:30 – Nutrition Education

September 14^th & 21^st – 1:00 -Old Salties

September 16^th – 10:30 – Coffee with Elise

September 24^th – 1:00 – Keys, Bags, Names, Words – Hope in Aging & Dementia Documentary (please register)

Movies on Thursdays at 12:30

September 3^rd – You’ve Got Mail with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan

September 10^th – Goodbye Girl with Richard Dreyfus and Marcia Mason

September 17^th – Smokey and the Bandits with Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason

September 24^th – Splendor in the Grass with Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood

Seniors on the Go Bus – Please register

September 14^th – Job Lots and Savers/Gourmet Garden

September 21^st – Trader Joe’s/Putnam Pantry

September 28^th – Target and Liberty Tree Mall/Wendy’s

Group Luncheon and Entertainment – Please register

September 17^th – Danversport – Solid Gold’s Remember the 50’s and 60’s.

December 2^nd and 3^rd – Danversport – The Music and Passion of Barry Manilow

Don’t miss the special exhibition at Cape Ann Museum which closes on September 27th !

It is a celebration of the works of Milton Avery ( 1885-1965) , Adolph Gottlieb ( 1903-1974) and Mark Rothko ( 1903-1970.) The three artists were friends  and came to Gloucester in the summer  to paint in the 1920’s to the mid 1940’s . The paintings are colorful and exciting and give you a sense of life in Gloucester at that time . You will also get a chance to see the amazing renovations in the Museum – exquisite! Enjoy !

Treat yourself to a Lobster Roll for just $13.99 + tax, served with chips & pickles!

PLUS our bonus pizza special:
🍕 Buy any 16” pizza and get the 2nd 16” HALF PRICE!
*Limit of 2 per customer

*Excludes gluten free
*Excludes online orders

The Primary elections are being held today from 7 am to 8 pm. There are a couple of locally pertinent primaries you might want to have a say in……I’ll be at East Veterans working the desk. Stop and say hello.

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Bird activity is finally picking up.

Good!

Barn Red…

Saturday September 12, 11am-9pm 
19 Pleasant Street (courtyard) 

Witness the transformation of the historic courtyard of Captain Harvey Coffin Mackay into a ship/stage where poetry, sound, visual art, ghosts and seagulls mingle and collaborate. The unfolding is co-created by CoCo Haze of Gallery RAG, K Prevallet of the Underverse, and Loren Doucette of Doucette Studio – plus special guests (TBA). The project is funded by the Harbortown Cultural District and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.