The Mass Cultural Council came to G-Town to listen to and observe what makes Gloucester so special. There are no other towns that have more than one Cultural District. Gloucester already has Rocky Neck. If approved for Downtown Gloucester, Gloucester would stand as the only City with more than one Massachusetts Cultural District.
When sitting in the room and listening to the distinguished assembly of community people that showed up it was obvious about 10 minutes in that honestly Gloucester deserves this in spades. There is no where anywhere that is as culturally diverse, enriched and vibrant as our community.
All the people had to do was speak the truth. It wasn’t about selling Downtown Gloucester. Downtown Gloucester, it’s merchants, it’s artists, its community and artistic organizations sell itself.
You’d have to be deaf, dumb and blind to not see it and I can assure you the representatives of the Mass Cultural Council that visited, Anita Walker, Meri Jenkins, Kylie Sullivan and Maren Brown are anything but deaf dumb and blind.
Huge thanks to the Downtown GloucesterCultural District Steering Committee Catherine Ryan, Lise Breen, Judith Hoglander, Robert Whitmarsh, Anne Robinson, Ronda Faloon, Maggie Rosa and David Rhinelander for laying so much of the groundwork to make this meeting possible and also to Fred Bodin for hosting this momentous event at his Bodin Historic Photo Gallery.
Melissa I love my new scarf. You rock!
STEP AWAY FROM THE CANNOLI – PUT YOUR ARMS UP AND STEP AWAY FROM THE CANOLLI!
Thanks for coming Joey. You made a big difference in presenting our Downtown. The four cultural committee members were very nice and accessible. I think we have a good chance of getting the designation. They LOVE us! We deserve it.
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stay classy Mellisa!
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What a great job hosting the event Fred!
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Thanks Ed. Glad you could make it, but you missed the cannoli!
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As always Fred does a great job, very informative and fun
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HI.
Gloucester has an early and rich history of redware pottery making dating back to the 1600’s with even a cove named after one. Please contact me if you would like to arrange a MCC funded pottery performance and lecture concerning the Pottey History of Gloucester. Thank you! Rick Hamelin, 413-436-7444 or rick@americanredware.com
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