Day: September 18, 2015

PUBLIC ART and more: mark your calendars! ESSEX HERITAGE TRAILS AND SAILS 2015 this weekend!

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PUBLIC ART and more: mark your calendars! ESSEX HERITAGE TRAILS AND SAILS 2015 this weekend!

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It’s coming! Here’s your annual chance to check out two weekends of 150+ FREE events throughout Essex County, September 18-20 and 25-27.

The schedule can change with new and wonderful additions, but as of today here are some public art and other highlights in Gloucester.

GLOUCESTER 2015 TRAILS AND SAILS events

Climb up City Hall Tower hosted by City Hall Restoration

Gloucester HarborWalk: three self-guided walking tours including some new selfie postcard fun for the mini trail mobile tour. Also new for 2015, the HarborWalk historic exhibit along Fisherman’s Wharf by Latitude 43.

City Hall murals Talking Walls guided talk and tour 1:15  on 9/19  and open 1-3 on Sunday 9/20 hosted by the Committee for the Arts

FISH NET and peek at Art Haven/Hive mural in progress on Parsons Street’s private building

Hopper’s Houses Walking Tour, Cape Ann Museum      

Historic Art Trail Walk, Rocky Neck

Historic Ice House Tours, Cape Pond Ice

Maritime Gloucester and Schooner Adventure Family Games and Fun

Magnolia Library & Community Center’s

“It’s not a weed: food, medicine and magic of wild plants”

Tour of Babson Boulders in Dogtown

REI Intro to Outdoor Rock Climbing

Have You Seen the Rose Garden?

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While I’ve been there many, many times, the beauty of the Rose Garden at Lynch Park in Beverly always takes my breath away just a little bit.  There’s something about how gorgeous it is…and how it sits boldly, so close to the oceanfront, that always surprises me.  A great place to head for a picnic lunch if you’re looking to squeeze every last drop out of summer.

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Robin Young Key Note Speaker at the Women’s Fund of Essex County’s Grant Awards Luncheon

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Women’s Fund of Essex County’s Grant Awards Luncheon Featuring Robin Young, Emmy Award Winning Television Host

 

Essex County, MA, September, 2015- The Women’s Fund of Essex County will host its 13th Annual Grant Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 from 11:30 am until 2:00 pm at the DoubleTree by Hilton Boston North Shore, 50 Ferncroft Road, Danvers, MA. The Annual Luncheon will recognize and honor fifteen nonprofit agencies that provide outreach and life skills to women and girls in Essex County. It will celebrate the success of the grant award recipients and recognize their outstanding efforts to improve the lives of women and girls. In 2015, The Women’s Fund was proud to award $230,000 to local organizations.

Keynote Speaker of the Luncheon is Robin Young. Robin brings more than 25 years of broadcast experience to her current role as host of Here & Now. She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has also reported for NBC, CBS, and ABC television and for several years and was a substitute host and correspondent for “The Today Show.”

Robin has received several Emmy Awards for her television work, as well as cable’s Ace award, the Religious Public Relations Council’s Wilbur Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Gold Award. She has also received radio’s regional Edward R. Murrow award. Perhaps most notably, Robin was one of the first hosts on the groundbreaking television show “Evening Magazine”.

Founded in 2003, The Women’s Fund of Essex County’s mission is to promote philanthropy and to raise and distribute funds to organizations that provide opportunities and promote solutions for women and girls in need throughout Essex County. Since 2003, The Women’s Fund has awarded over $1 million to over 80 non-profit programs. The Women’s Fund is a field of interest fund of the Essex County Community Foundation located in Danvers, MA.

To purchase tickets to the Luncheon and learn more about The Women’s Fund, please visit www.thewomensfundec.org.

For information regarding the Press Release, contact Susan Beckmann, (617) 733-6367, susan.beckmann@verison.net or Lynn Bryant, (617) 633-9175.