World Ocean School, in partnership with Proctor Academy, will depart Gloucester on Thursday with twenty-one students bound for nine-weeks of education at sea.

It’s year number two of a partnership between New Hampshire’s Proctor Academy Ocean Classroom and the Boston-based World Ocean School. On Thursday, after schooner Roseway will board twenty-one high school students at Maritime Gloucester to begin a nine-week expedition culminating in San Juan, Puerto Rico late November.

Juniors and seniors from Proctor will step aboard Roseway prepared for a fall semester of nautical history, maritime literature, marine sciences and navigational mathematics all underway. Along the journey down the eastern seaboard and into the Caribbean, Roseway will make port stops where students will engage in community service projects. Students will practice “ship, shipmate, self” as they face and overcome numerous challenges.

Not only does the revenue from this partnership fuel World Ocean School programs for underserved populations throughout the rest of the year, but it connects Roseway with a school that is renowned for its commitment to experiential education for students of all backgrounds, fostering a collaborative and productive community.

“As a mission-driven organization that believes strongly in effective community-building, we are thrilled to be working with Proctor”, says Abby Kidder, President of the World Ocean School. “We have a lot to learn from them and at the same time, a lot to share from our own experience with education at sea.”

To follow the students’ experiences at sea, keep an eye on Roseway’s Ship’s Log atwww.WorldOceanSchool.org.

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Thank you!

World Ocean School Aboard Roseway

PO Box 51091

Boston, MA 02205

617-816-9247

www.worldoceanschool.org

E.J. Lefavour

Peace Fest

Sunday, September 20, 12:30-5pm
Harvey Park, Downtown Rockport (Broadway and Mount Pleasant St)

Free concert, music, art, food, fun and games. www.rockportuu.org/events

“Artists Greats” Exhibition

North Shore Arts Association celebrates its “Year of The Artist” with a spectacular and historic ‘best of the best’ “Artists’ Greats” artist member exhibition with Opening Day on Thursday, September 3rd. ‘Meet the Artists Reception’, Sunday, September 20, 2-4 pm. Show runs through September 26th. Open free to the public.

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Phyllis Feld Solo Show “The Way of the Landscape”

NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION presents one of Cape Ann’s extraordinary landscape artists, Phyllis Feld, in her exciting new Solo Show, “The Way of Space in The Landscape.”  Opening day is September 3, and the show runs through September 26.  All are invited to a “Meet the Artist Reception” on Sunday, September 20, 2-4 pm.  Free and open to the public.

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Members Retrospective

NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION ARTIST MEMBERS’ RETROSPECTIVE.  OVER 200 MASTERWORKS ON EXHIBIT!  All are invited to a “MEET THE ARTISTS” RECEPTION on Sunday, September 20, 2 – 4pm, at the North Shore Arts Association’s stunning harbor side galleries on Smith’s Cove in East Gloucester.  North Shore Arts Association’s Artist Members have selected the work that best reflects their evolution as artists, and which they consider representative of their best work.  Considered Masterworks, many pieces have won awards from the most highly regarded and prestigious national art societies and academies like the National Academy of Design and the American Watercolor Society, and have never before been shown together.  This special exhibition runs through Saturday, October 10th.  OPEN FREE TO THE PUBLIC.

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Rockport artist John Terelak Solo Show

North Shore Arts Association is honored to offer the work of internationally acclaimed Rockport artist John C. Terelak in a stunning solo show of his masterworks.  Entitled “50 Years at The Easel,” the exhibit’s Opening Day is September 3rd and runs through September 26th.  “Meet The Artist Reception” is Sunday, September 20, 2-4 pm.  All are invited.  Free and open to the public.

“Painting is a personal love affair!” declares Cape Ann’s own John C. Terelak.   His love affair with painting began when, working at his easel during his last year of art study at Vesper George school in Boston, Terelak experienced a moment of  epiphany.  “In that one moment I knew I would make painting my life’s work.”  After completing his studies he was invited in 1963 to study on Cape Ann with revered artist and teacher Don Stone, and never left what he describes as “an artist’s paradise.”

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The North Shore Arts Association’s galleries are open, free to the public, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m. More information on all North Shore Arts Association events is available by visiting  their website at www.nsarts.org, and by email at arts@nsarts.org, or by telephone 978 283-1857.

So it pained me to watch this video of these people who nursed this bird back to health, release it to return to it nature only to watch it fly smack into a building and die.

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Al Symes and I climbed Mt Moosilauke last week. We needed down/fleece up top.

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10:35am 09/18/2015

The September GAAC meeting will be this week, on the 18th, not the second Friday as is usual. In October we will be returning to our regular meeting schedule.

In the sort of colorful and engrossing presentation we’ve come to expect from Gary Meehan, at our September 18 GAAC meeting Gary will discuss his ongoing efforts to image the solar system. He will explain the equipment he uses in some detail, and will run through some of the issues that need to be considered in order to obtain the best results. 

Gary’s presentation is, of course, loaded with images, especially his new pictures of the Sun, Moon, and Jupiter. And those of you who want to give it a try are in luck: in addition to leading us on a tour through his recent astrophotos, Gary will also demonstrate the series of procedures that he uses to convert video data into a final image product. 

And there’s more! At this meeting we’ll be celebrating what looks to be the upcoming decision to replace Gloucester’s streetlights with lower color temperature 3000k astronomy-friendly LED’s, and we’ll be thanking the principles involved in advocating for this decision. There will be cake.

The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club meets on the second Friday of the month (usually), at the Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan Street in Lanesville. Everything is always free. For more info, see http://gaac.us, and see our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/gaacpage. You can follow GAAC on twitter, @gaacster.

Is there anything the Kimberley’s can’t do? Multiple drone rescues 125 feet in the air,  Indian delights for dinner,  how hum,  just another day in the life of two beautiful people.  Love you guys.  Thanks for feeding us 🙂