Month: November 2011

Thanks to Christine Orlando for forwarding this-

Dec. 1st- The 33rd Annual  Ladies Night

Stores will be opened late, many offering special offers and free refreshments.

With every purchase receive a free entry to the One Winner take all $1,100.00 Shopping Spree given by forty three businesses.

Dec. 3rd- A Visit With Santa

Sponsored by Kids Unlimited and Hosted by Cape Ann Savings Bank, 109 Main Street

Santa Will Listen to the Kids Wish List

Get a sweet treat from Santa

Girl Scout Troop #73495 celebrating their 100th year, will be Caroling and giving hand made crafts to the kids

Free Photos with Santa – two 5×7

Free Refreshments will be served

All kids are invited to share this day with Santa and his Elves

Dec 8th- The 33rd Annual Men’s Night

Store will be opened late, many offering special offers and free refreshments.

With every purchase receive a free entry to the One Winner take all $1,100.00 Shopping Spree given by forty three businesses.

Dec 10th- Middle Street Walk

Programs and events in celebration of Gloucester’s Historic District  All of the events are free and open to the public.  Programs for the day’s events will be available at City Hall and the Cape Ann Museum that morning.

Visit Historic Houses, Churches, the Sawyer Free Library and the Cape Ann Museum.

Ride the CATA Trolley from 11:30 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. with a Holiday Serenade starting at City Hall.

Enjoy  musical concerts, dance performances, kid’s activities, tours and much more!

At City Hall, see a short preview of “The Annie’s” Lobstah Crocka Ballet at 11:00 A.M. and view gingerbread houses.

At the Sawyer Free Library, attend the SeArts Holiday Wearable Arts Show Sale 9-5 P.M.

Finish the day at the Lobster Pot Tree Lighting at Court House Square ( outside the police station) decorated with lobster buoys painted by kids at Art Haven at 5 P.M.  Immediately following the Winner of the $1,100.00 Downtown Shopping Spree will be drawn.  Plenty of time before Christmas to be spent or given as Christmas Gifts.  Please join us for the drawing and all of our Downtown Events.

Update: Stop by the Rocky Neck Art Colony’s winter show on Ladies Night (tomorrow, Thursday, December 1), enjoy some wine and chocolate and enter your name to win a free gift.

Put your name and contact info into our hat between 6 and 8pm and you may win one these great gifts:

A handmade mug by potter Marty Morgan

A set of Lilliputian Landscape greeting cards by Judy Robinson-Cox

Set of Gloucester Docks photo cards by Michael Oleksiw

Three hand-painted greeting cards, suitable for framing by painter Elynn Kröger (pick-up at her gallery on Rocky Neck)

A Cape Ann calendar by Vicki Diez-Canseco

A 2012 Dogtown and Babson Boulders complete collection calendar by EJ

Holiday ornament by Judith Bly

One winner will be drawn every twenty minutes.

E.J. Lefavour

Trinity Congregational Church, 70 Middle Street, Gloucester, holds their Christmas by the Sea Fair and Luncheon on December 3 from 9am to 2pm.
There will be a variety of handmade crafts, fresh holiday foods, Christmas white elephant, jewelry, and “cookie walk”, pictures with Santa, and fresh greens and wreaths. The silent auction will feature gift certificates donated by local businesses and restaurants and other special surprise items. The luncheon is home-made fish chowder and hot dogs and will be served from 11:30 – 1:00.
The Trinity Thrift Shop, next door, will be open with white elephant and clothing buys. 
Proceeds support community and church projects. 

Peace & Democracy in Pakistan

What are the prospects and why does it matter?

Relations between the United States and Pakistan are at an all-time low, following a series of incidents involving U.S. and NATO forces either inside Pakistan or along its border with Afghanistan, even as Pakistan itself has been convulsed by a rash of antigovernment bombings and assassinations and as the Obama administration prepares to draw down U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Can Pakistan move towards peace, democracy and stability under such conditions, and why should this matter to Americans?

Beena Sarwar is a leading Pakistani journalist, artist and democracy, human rights and peace advocate. An initiator of the Pakistani Campaign for Democracy and a former Harvard Nieman Fellow, she is currently working with the Jang Group in Pakistan, and she maintains a political blog titled Journeys to Democracy (http://beenasarwar.wordpress.com].

Sarwar has worked for newspapers in Karachi and Lahore and was the founding editor of the Pakistan weekly "News on Sunday."  She has also written extensively for the InterPress News Service, and has made several film and television documentaries. She has degrees in Art and Literature from Brown University (1986) and in Television Documentary from London University (2001). Sarwar was a Nieman Foundation Fellow at Harvard in 2006 and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (Harvard Kennedy School) in 2007.

For more information, go to the Forum’s Web site at www.capeannforum.org

Tom Halsted writes-

Anybody know the origins of this massive timber on Good Harbor Beach, unearthed when the last storm scoured away more sand than usual near the high tide mark?
A shipwreck? If so, what ship?