Two years ago a boat wreck was discovered off Coffins Beach. See the story here.
Today, Shanti and Raj re-discovered the remains at low tide.
Month: August 2016
Magnolia’s 40th year Road Race
Great day and a wonderful event. This event is always fun. There are 3 year olds running the fun run and they are having such fun.
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Today’s Wall Street Journal: Stuart Davis and Gloucester – masterpiece art and to this day a fishing port
Bill Agee is an art historian and esteemed professor at Hunter. He completed the acclaimed Davis catalogue raissone (Yale University Press, 1991). His most recent book is Modern Art in America. Here he is on Stuart Davis (1892-1964) and Gloucester in today’s Wall Street Journal.
“Swing Landscape (1938) is surely one of the greatest paintings of modern American art, a glorious summation of all Davis had been and was still to be. Swing Landscape, one of nine Davis mural projects was commissioned by the WPA. It was intended for the Williamsburg Housing Project in Brooklyn. But for reasons still unclear it was never installed, and in 1942 it was acquired by the Indiana University Art Museum, in Bloomington. Because of its intended location, over the years the mural has been misread as based on views of that bustling borough.
Rather, it depicts the boats, docks, houses and landscape of Gloucester, Mass., to this day a fishing port. Davis had spent summers there since 1915, and the subject was the culmination of a favorite motif that had appeared frequently in his art since at least 1924. Davis could be contrarian–for example suggesting a painting was about one thing when it was really about something else–and here he turns these picturesque vistas, the subject of so much tourist art, into a serious, complex and ambitious mural. “
I wish this Agee excerpt was published long before the September 25th closing of the Whitney Museum show, Stuart Davis in Full Swing. Back in June, WSJ published a couple of reviews including one by Karen Wilkin.
From the Whitney exhibit:
Using sketches he made of the waterfront in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he transformed masts, rigging, lobster traps, ladders, and striped poles into a vocabulary of overlapping, brightly colored shapes, all of equal intensity. To Davis, the result portrayed the “new materials, new spaces, new speeds, new time relations, new lights, and new colors” of modern America.
James Wechsler describes Davis subjects as triple distilled.
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What Time Is It, Mr. Fox Closes the last night of The Harbor Loop Summer Concert Series 2016, last Thursday. 8.25.2016
Delightful summer night of live music on the hill. Children frolicking, summer breeze and dancers here and there. There were many originals and some cover songs. Renee and Joe ( who, also have their own duo/band) shared a couple of their songs and then Nadia Robertson singer/songwriter (who has performed on stage with What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? in the past, along with Rockport High School Madrigal Choir) joined in.
A very special thank you to Carol Pallazolla and Christopher Silva for running the show and doing an awesome job with it! Here’s to many more.
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BREAKING SUPER SPECTACULAR EXCITING FIREWORKS NEWS!!!
THE FIREWORKS ARE A GO!!! Hold onto your hats, we’re going to be treated to an extra fantabulous spectacular display!
Barry Pett shares that the response for requests for assistance with the Schooner Festival/Labor Day Weekend fireworks show has been tremendous. He gives a heartfelt thanks to everyone for their contributions. He’d also like folks to be aware that the City contributes greatly, with support from Mayor Romeo Theken’s administration, the Police and Fire Departments, and the DPW.
Barry provided some history about the fireworks, which have been annually displayed from Stage Fort Park since at least 1880. This beautifully poetic Winslow Homer watercolor titled Sailboat and Fourth of July Fireworks, dated July 4th, 1880, was painted during the year that Homer lived on Ten Pound Island. Unfortunately, the painting is currently hidden away in storage at the Fogg Art Museum. It is Barry’s hope that for Gloucester’s quadricentennial the painting will travel to Gloucester and be displayed at the Cape Ann Museum.
Barry Pett has been creating Gloucester’s fireworks shows for over twenty five years.
Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea
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Visitors from Rhode Island
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It ain’t over
Th fact that the summer is coming to a close makes me physically ill, so I’m just going to go into denial until every last skiff is out of the water!
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It has been one year
It has been one year since we lost our friend Fred. We will miss you always.
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Hot Head or Couch Potato?
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Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board Listings For 8/28/16
Welcome To Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board
Joey C ~
A place where non-profit Cape Ann organizations can post press releases directly and then those press releases will be reposted to http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com . This is not an advertising space for businesses, fitness or wellness organizations, or music listings.
The web address will be http://www.capeanncommunity.com
To have your community organization news posted here, contact Joey C who will grant access for you to post directly.
Fall Walking Tours at the Cape Ann Museum
August 27, 2016 ~ Cape Ann Museum
Guided walking tours begin at the Cape Ann Museum at 10:00a.m. and are held rain or shine, lasting about 1½ hours; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. $10 members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. Call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org for details.
Not a member of the Museum? Join now and get discounted tickets to all our events!
Hopper’s Houses Walking Tour
Saturday, September 10
Take a leisurely walk past select Gloucester houses made famous by painter Edward Hopper. Hopper is known to have painted in Gloucester on five separate occasions during the summer months in the years 1912, 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1928. He began working in watercolor, capturing the local landscape and architecture in loosely rendered, light filled paintings. This special walking tour will explore the neighborhood surrounding the Museum, which includes many of the Gloucester houses immortalized by Hopper’s paintings.
Public Sculpture Walking Tour
Saturday, September 17
Get up-close and personal with the artwork you drive by everyday on this walk through downtown Gloucester. New to Gloucester? Then, this tour will give you a three-dimensional introduction to this little city by the sea. From sculptures commemorating those who went to sea, to those who fought in war to those who changed the artistic landscape of Cape Ann forever—this walking tour will uncover the stories behind the public sculptures of Gloucester, including the unique processes of the artists who created them.
Fitz Henry Lane on Foot and Online
Saturday, October 1
Experience 19th century Gloucester history as this tour leads you through the neighborhoods and waterfront that inspired the artwork of native son Fitz Henry Lane. Learn how Lane rose from modest beginnings in the pre-civil war era to worldwide recognition as a marine painter and why, even today, numerous artists journey to Cape Ann to capture its unusual light, first immortalized by Lane.
Participants are encouraged to bring smart phones or tablets in order to use the rich sources of information in the newly released Fitz Henry Lane Online catalog raisonne. During this walk, you will connect specific locations to the paintings they inspired by accessing the online catalog. Alternative visuals will also be available.
Hopper’s Houses Walking Tour
Saturday, October 8
Take a leisurely walk past select Gloucester houses made famous by painter Edward Hopper. Hopper is known to have painted in Gloucester on five separate occasions during the summer months in the years 1912, 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1928. He began working in watercolor, capturing the local landscape and architecture in loosely rendered, light filled paintings. This special walking tour will explore the neighborhood surrounding the Museum, which includes many of the Gloucester houses immortalized by Hopper’s paintings.
Trash/Recycling Update: 8/26/16 4:00 PM
Trash/Recycling Update: 8/26/16 4:00 PM
We would like to thank the residents for their patience and understanding during this past week. All trash routes for the week are complete.
Currently we are running 2 days behind in the recycling routes. Wednesday’s recycling in the down town area,(Maplewood Ave and surrounding side streets) is complete. They are currently working in the Wheeler’s Point Area. We hope to complete the Wheeler’s Point section. In the event that it is not completed, this will be the first area that gets picked up tomorrow morning. They will then continue with Thursday and Friday’s recycling routes.
City Offices are currently closed. If you would like to report a missed trash or recycling stop, please use our See Click Fix feature and city staff will be notified.
Again, we would like to thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter and will keep you updated as new information becomes available.
—Rose LoPiccoloExecutive Secretary to
The Director of Public Works
City of Gloucester
Department of Public Works
28 Poplar Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
Phone (978)281-9785
Fax (978)281-3896
Sawyer Free Library Week of August 28, 2016
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Video: 2016 Fishermen’s Memorial Service
There was a large turnout for this year’s memorial service. It is the 25th anniversary of the Perfect Storm. Linda Greenlaw was on hand to share her thoughts and Mayor Sefatia offered her warm greetings.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER LYDA KUTH LECTURE AT THE CAPE ANN MUSEUM!
I am super excited to share that my friend Lyda Kuth will be giving a presentation on architect Eleanor Raymond as part of the lecture series for the Cape Ann Museum’s Design/Build summer exhibit. You may have met Lyda when she gave a screening of her beautiful film Love and Other Anxieties at the Cape Ann Cinema. The lecture will be held on Thursday, September 29 at 7:00 p.m. I am sure it is going to be a fantastic talk!
About Eleanor Raymond: Eleanor Raymond (1887-1989) was a pioneering woman in the field of architecture during the mid-20th century. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Art and Landscape Architecture for Women, Eleanor Raymond was a noted innovator partnering with solar energy researcher Dr. Mária Telkes to design one of the first successful solar-heated buildings in the Northeast. On Cape Ann, Raymond designed homes for artist Natalie Hays Hammond, anthropologist Carlton S. Coon and a summer cottage for herself overlooking Gloucester’s outer harbor.
About Lyda: She is an independent filmmaker and Executive Director of the LEF Foundation, which supports New England independent documentary filmmakers. She has been recognized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council with the prestigious Commonwealth Award and honored by Women in Film and Video New England with an Image Award.
Home designed by Eleanor Raymond, Belmont, Massachusetts, in 1931, seven years before the Gropius House in Lincoln, which was built in 1938.
Eleanor Raymond and Dr. Mária Telkes
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Best Seats In The House
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Reminder: Fishermen’s Memorial Service today. Guest speaker Linda Greenlaw.
Meet up at the Legion 5PM and walk in procession to the Man at the Wheel.
Lucia Amero does incredible work at Veteran’s Services putting together essential events
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Sunset over Magnolia Harbor
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Bearing Witness to Grace: Hymns of Jeannette Lindholm
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Scrabble on the beach
Long Beach.
Good Morning Gloucester 