Directed by Sal Zerilli and Keith Palazzola
Maritime Capsules tells the story of the Grand Banks dory from the heyday of high-lining schooners to the current group of locals who sustain the ancient rowboat as a symbolically important part of Gloucester’s maritime culture.
Directors Sal Zerilli and Keith Palazzola will be present at the screening, which kicks off the CACC’s 6th Annual Doctober Fest. Tickets are $10.50 for adults, $9.00 for students and seniors, or $7.50 for members of the Cape Ann Museum and Cape Ann Community Cinema. The Cape Ann Community Cinema is located at 21 Main Street in Gloucester; more at capeanncinema.com.
Discover for the first time or enjoy a chance to revisit this unique historic home. The White-Ellery House (1710) is open to the public at no charge on the first Saturday of the month from May through October as part of Escapes North 17th Century Saturdays.
Saturday’s Open House, the last of the season, will feature a screening of local filmmaker Shep Abbott’s film More Precious Than Gold at 1:00 p.m.
More Precious Than Gold is a lively and gripping epic of the first Massachusetts Bay settlement in the New World. The one-hour documentary tells the story of how the city of Gloucester developed through the Indian wars, smallpox epidemics and tragic losses at sea into the country’s premiere fishing port. The film combines live action re-enactments with little known stills, beautiful landscapes and seascapes of the area, interviews with experts and a gripping narration by well known NPR Radio Producer Sandy Tolan. An entertaining and detailed description of life and death in the early years of what became the first constitutional democracy the world had known. Written and Directed by Shep Abbott. Designed for adult viewers and Middle and High School history and humanities students. Shep Abbott is a local filmmaker best known for his cinematography on the academy award winning documentary Broken Rainbow.
A Chosen Place: Walker Hancock and Friends
On view through February 1, 2015 – A selection of works by Walker Hancock along with other Cape Ann sculptors including George Demetrios, Paul Manship, Katharine Lane Weems, Anna Hyatt Huntington, James McClellan and Daniel Altshuler.
The Importance of Place:A Sketchbook of Drawings by Stuart Davis
On view through February 1, 2015 – A series of sketches exploring the shapes and rhythms of the harbor, the upland moors and the densely populated neighborhoods of central Gloucester – all of which served Davis as artistic inspiration for the rest of his life.
Portraits of a Working Waterfront
Opening October 11, 2014 – This exhibit, presented in partnership with the Northeast Seafood Coalition, is made up of 75 photographs of men and women who make their livings working today in one of this country’s oldest seaports, Gloucester, Massachusetts. The images were made by Jim Hooper over an 18-month period and include photos of a wide range of individuals involved in the in-shore and off-shore ground fish fishery and in the shore side businesses which support them.
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