Day: October 11, 2016

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Good morning,

I wanted to hopefully get the word out that there is now at least 1 coyote roaming downtown. I live on Friend Street and my husband encountered a large coyote in front of our neighbor’s house at 11:30 last night. It was not afraid of my husband and in fact it followed him into our back yard. My husband had to jingle his keys and make a lot of noise to make it run off. We are reporting the sighting to animal control, but I wanted to alert others in the neighborhood to be careful! 

Thanks and keep up the great work!

Johanna Whippen

38A Friend St. 

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.

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Seaside Garden Club Presents Melissa Glorieux of Aster B. Flowers on October 11th

October 10, 2016 ~ kwillwerth

The program will be held at the Manchester Community Center. Social time begins at 7:00 pm and the program begins promptly at 7:30 pm.  Light refreshments will be served.  All are welcome. $5 guest fee for non-members.

Founder, farmer and lead designer at Aster B. Flowers, Melissa Glorieux, will talk about her experience as a self-taught flower farmer and floral designer.  She will also discuss the Slow Flower Movement and how the locally-grown trend has been formative in the evolution of her farm and business.

Melissa Glorieux of Aster B Flowers

For more information visit the Seaside Garden Club blog: https://seasidegardenclub.wordpress.com/

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10/14 GAAC Meeting Program Change

October 9, 2016 ~ Michael Deneen

GAAC has reshuffled their schedule just a bit. Mario Motta’s terrific program on the destruction being wrought by star WD1145+17 is now scheduled for our Holiday Party on December 9. Watch for Mario’s Sky & Telescope article on this very topic later this year.

Now, has GAAC got a program for you on Friday!

On Friday October 14 at 8:00 pm please join the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club for an evening with astrophysicist Alan Hirshfeld, author of Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe.

Dr. Hirshfeld will share his insights into a watershed period of science—roughly 1830-1920—when amateurs and professionals were developing the photographic and spectrographic tools of modern astronomy.

As Dava Sobel described his work:  “Starlight Detectives is just the sort of richly veined book I love to read—full of scientific history and discoveries, peopled by real heroes and rogues, and told with absolute authority.”

Reviewers at Scientific American said of Starlight Detectives that “astrophysicist Hirshfeld chronicles the radical changes in our conception of the cosmos that have accompanied the advent of modern astronomy over the past century and a half, [a period Hirshfeld describes as] ‘a remarkable and complex period in the development of humanity’s oldest science’…”

This evening promises to be informative and a lot of fun; arrive early for a good seat, great conversation, cake, and an overall good time.

GAAC members meet at the Lanesville Community Center in the Lanesville neighborhood of Gloucester MA, at 8:00 pm on the second Friday of every month, for presentations, discussions and activities related to observational astronomy. All are welcome. There is plenty of parking, and there are no dues or fees. No special knowledge or equipment is needed to have a great time. For more information, see the club Facebook page, website, or follow the club on Twitter, @GAACster.