how do i love you?

Pocket-sized love poems for your Valentine, available to purchase from Eastern Point Lit House.

Pocket Poems www.kimsmithdesigns.com

NEW VIDEO FROM CAPE ANN TV: SEAFOOD THROWDOWN AT THE FARMER’S MARKET

Featuring chefs Niaz Dorry from the Northwest Marine Alliance, Mark Delaney from Common Crow, and David Gauvin from Addison Gilbert hospital.

New Harbortown Arts Festival in the Works for Memorial Day Weekend

Dear Partners and Supporters of Gloucester’s Harbortown Cultural District,

We have received a $4,000 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council which we are going to use to develop the “Harbortown Arts Festival” over Memorial Day Weekend – first of many, we hope!. We will be re-granting these funds to our members to help animate the Cultural District through creative placemaking projects and programs.
We will be asking local businesses, restaurants, coffee/tea houses, galleries and artist to hang new shows and open their studios on Saturday, May 28 so we can create a true downtown art-walk vibe the first night of the Festival.
For Saturday and Sunday, we will be opening the Call for Entries process where our downtown partners can apply for up to $500 to develop a creative placemaking project or program. These proposals must:
  • Happen on private, not public, property
  • Involve public engagement/participation in the planning or implementation of the project or program.
  • Partner with an artist – preference will be given to artists of Cape Ann.
  • Projects/programs must occur within the Cultural District boundaries and be completed by Monday May 30.
More information about these guidelines and how to apply will be available in early March; awards will be announced in April. The creative placemaking projects should be non permanent and they can be performance-based, multimedia, or digital. The creative placemaking programs can be hands-on activities, interpretive tours, presentations/lectures.  We really want to be as broad as possible so we can see what our amazing creative community comes up with to celebrate what makes Gloucester, Gloucester.
We hope you are excited as we are about this new festival, which will bring more visitors, families and people downtown over Memorial Day Weekend. We hope it will become an annual event and grows each year.
And, we’re going to need your help to do so! For now, please mark your calendars. When you get the email for the Call for Entries, please help spread the word about this great opportunity. When the Festival Program is finalized in April, please help promote it to everyone and all!
Stay tuned!

Chocolate & Wine Reception @ Central Street Gallery

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Please join us for a special
Chocolate and Wine reception:

Saturday, February 13, 5:00 – 8:00pm
Please join us, and bring some friends!
Show starts: Fri., Feb. 12,
and runs through May. 14, 2016

Enhance your life with art…
Gallery Director:
Alison Rowell

Members:
Lynne Comb – Phyllis Feld – William Fusco – Richard Giedd – Ann Goldberg – Barbara Jones – Susan Kelley – Barbara Levine – LInda Jo Nielsen – Lynn Murray – Charleen Onanian – Mike Storella – Barbara Walsh – Grace Vasta-Carr

Hours:
Wed- Sun, 12-5 or by appointment.

11 Central Street, Manchester by the Sea, MA 01944

What’s Sista Felicia Been Up To These Day’s ?

Wednesday’s with Fly Amero…This weeks special guest: Allen Estes @ The Rhumb Line 7-10pm 2.10.2016

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This week’s dinner special:
Chicken Cacciatore w/linguini – $11.95

Wednesday, February 10th – 7pm
Special Guest: ALLEN ESTES!

Cape Ann’s greatest songwriter, Allen Estes returns to our
Wednesday stage.  He brings with him not only his songs,
but the vast influences and flavors of folk, pop, blues, country,
bluegrass, Americana and so much more… all delivered with
pure honesty and genuine love.  I wonder how many of us
know how lucky we all are to have this man among us. ~ Fly
Dinner with great music!
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
Dave Trooper’s Kitchen…
Prepared fresh weekly by “Troop”… always good!
Plus a fine, affordable wine menu!
Upcoming…
John Rockwell

Inge Berge

Fozzie Hill

Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂


Judith Sargent Murray ‎Love Notes: The Love Letters of Judith Sargent Murray and John Murray, A Timeless American Love Story Set to Music @ The North Shore Folklore Theatre Company 169 Main Street. Gloucester, Ma

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John Murray is known as the Father of Organized Universalism in America, and was a charismatic, handsome firebrand who preached love, kindness and virtue, sometimes at his peril.

And Judith Sargent Murray is considered the most important female essayist of 18th-century America and a founding Universalist. She challenged the new American nation to be virtuous, fair, and philanthropic; to improve female education, respect women’s abilities, and allow them to participate as full citizens.

The couple was often separated and exchanged hundreds of letters. Their love story is timeless and compelling.

The event has been scheduled at 5:30 p.m. to give you plenty of time to enjoy a lovely Valentine’s Day meal before or after!

Featuring Bonnie Hurd Smith & Henry∞Cameron Allen

Suggested donation: $10

North Shore Folklore Theatre Company

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169 Main St

Gloucester, MA

 

Tuesday Surf Photos

Once again the surf was awesome!

PlayaCast 2 With @Bmanpitt Eric Lorden and @Joey_C Taped 2/10/16

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PlayaCast 2 With @Bmanpitt Eric Lorden and @Joey_C Taped 2/10/16

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Tonno Restaurant at 2 Main St ~ Progresses Continues

IMG_1852Tono Restaurant owner is on hand to review plans.  Amazing how far they have progressed.  The back room has a new red brick tile floor.  The front room is stating to be framed in.

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Chamber Invites You to Visit the Azores!

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The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce and Connections Adventure Travel invite you to visit the Azores. Sign up to experience the Wonders of the Azores from September 23 – October 2, 2016! Join us at the Azorean Restaurant for an informational meeting to learn everything you need to know about this fantastic trip.

Informational Meeting
The Azorean Restaurant
Thursday, February 25, 2016

RSVP Here for this FREE informational meeting.

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High Tide Reaches Hotel’s Retaining Wall

High tide reached the Beauport Hotel’s retaining wall.  Everything stayed High and Dry.

Also see photos of  the making of the retaining wall back in 2014. (Link1, Link2)

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