My View of Life on the Dock
From the owners of the Blue Marlin Grill in Essex now comes The Boat House Grille. Located at the old Lewis’ Restaurant….and later Castle Creek. I haven’t had a chance to get there yet, but I’ve heard great things about the menu, the food, the staff, and the ambience. Looking forward to seeing what Corey Matthews and his group has created in the very near future!
Cape Ann TV’s Lunch & Learn Series continues on Wednesday, November 2nd at 12 pm with“DSLR vs. Camcorder – what’s the right choice for your shoot?” presented by professional video producer, Ted Reed.
Digital SLRs have become the hot video tool, but what’s the best way to use them? When is a traditional camcorder the preferred choice? Award-winning TV producer Ted Reed will show how to get the most out of both, their strengths and weaknesses, and even how to use both together effectively.
Please join us on Wednesday, November 2nd at 12 PM at Cape Ann TV for this event. Lunch is provided and this event is free.
Space is limited for this event; please RSVP to rtober@capeanntv.org to reserve your spot.
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Letting the tuna marinade in the soy/ginger/sesame/red pepper flake mixture for a couple of hours before smoking them between 175-225 for a couple of hours.
Thank you to Tony and Abbie for allowing me to come by and get some footage of the spunky little seahorse. This is the fourth seahorse Tony has found, the second this week. He finds them feeding on tiny crustaceans in his lobster bait traps. I think this is a female. If you look closely in the above Instagram and compare with the diagram below, she does not have the male’s brood pouch.
Lined Seahorses are not strong swimmers; they ambush their prey by camouflaging themselves, changing color to blend with their environment. They are found in shades ranging from deep brownish black to gray to green, red, and oranges. Lined Seahorses feed on small crustaceans, fish larvae, and plankton. Their mouths are without teeth and instead of biting, use a sucking action to draw in food. Because a seahorse has no stomach, it must eat constantly.
Seahorses live in habitats where there is an abundance of vegetation to hold onto, for example, eel grass and seaweed in southern New England. On temperate shorelines they may curl their tail around mangrove roots and corals. It seems logical that Tony’s bait traps make a convenient feeding station, providing both food and a place on which to latch. Although rare, sightings as far north as Nova Scotia have been reported. Cape Cod is the tippy end of the Lined Seahorse’s northern breeding range.
Fun fact about Lined Seahorses: Scientists report that the males dance for their mate every morning as a way to bond.
The Lined Seahorse population is in decline; their species status is listed as “vulnerable.” The reason for the decline is not only habitat destruction, but sadly and preventably, because they are a popular commodity in the trinket trade.
A reporter from NECN and NBC contacted Tony and the story may be airing on NECN. Let us know if you see the episode. Here’s a video Tony’s wife Abbie made, posted on GMG in 2010. The seahorse in this video was caught in December, in Ipswich Bay, in 40 degree waters.
Anatomy of a seahorse from Google image search
Took a drive over to White Beach and you can see the colors of the trees are starting to show.
Please join us on the evening of, October 21st, for a one night only gallery opening at 65 Middle Street in Gloucester for photographs by Jintara Nutprasas. Prosecco & Snacks will be provided by Pastaio Via Corta & Mayflour Confections.
On View at the Cape Ann Museum
October 22, 2016 through February 26, 2017
(left) Jeremy Adams Organ, 1986. Annisquam Village Church, Gloucester, MA; (center) Adams doing restoration work on a Pleyel harpsichord; (right) Adams at work in his shop. Photographs by Paul Cary Goldberg ©2016.
Voicing the Woods: Jeremy Adams, Instrument Maker showcases the prodigious skills and artistry of Jeremy Adams, one of the most gifted musical instrument makers in New England. The exhibition, which will be held in the Cape Ann Museum’s 1,500 square foot special exhibitions gallery, will include a one-stop chamber organ, a demonstration organ chest, a 1995 clavichord and a selection of harpsichords, each built in its entirety by Adams in his Danvers, Massachusetts workshop. In addition to the instruments that will be shown in the gallery, a selection of Adams’s furniture will be displayed in the Museum’s 1804 Captain Elias Davis House, offering an interesting contrast to the period furniture in the House.
A keyboard player from early childhood, Jeremy Adams took his formal training with Roland Sturgis, Gregory Tucker and Melville Smith at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge. In the 1960s, an auspicious time for early music enthusiasts, Adams entered into a six-year apprenticeship at William Dowd’s Cambridge harpsichord shop, where he gained recognition for his skills as a musician and quickly developed his hand as a fine woodworker. (Dowd had established his workshop in the 1950s with harpsichord maker Frank Hubbard, engaging with the international movement to revive historic practices of performance and instrument building.) In the two years following his harpsichord apprenticeship, Adams honed his skills in reed voicing and tonal finishing in an organ building apprenticeship at the Gloucester workshop of Charles Fisk, working on signature instruments at Old West Methodist in Boston and Harvard University, among others. In 1969 Adams opened his own workshop on the North Shore.
Adams’s harpsichords, clavichords and pipe organs can be found in public and private collections around the world, including the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston; the Sapporo Episcopal Cathedral and the Kyoto Fukkatu Kyokai (Kyoto Episcopal Church) in Japan; Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, MA; the Waring School in Beverly, MA; Maple Street Congregational Church in Danvers, MA; and the Annisquam Village Church in Gloucester, MA. Restorations and expansions of existing instruments include work on Martha’s Vineyard and in Barbados.
The design and construction of Adams’s furniture and objets d’art evolved, in part, from the refined casework required by the musical instruments, and in part from a lifelong interest in painting and sculpture. The intersection of these elements has led to commissions from clients far and near, and to exhibitions with the Jane Deering, Found and Oasis galleries, as well as representation in a competition at the Wharton Esherick Museum in Pennsylvania.
Photographs by Paul Cary Goldberg complement the instrument exhibit and document Adams’s studio and work process, highlighting some of the exquisite detail and workmanship on individual pieces and underscoring the breadth and volume of his work.
We Need a Hero celebrates the fine art of illustration, with eight artists rooted in design and animation. Though there is borrowing from popular culture, distinctly unique visual languages are being explored here. Elements of folk and pop art, abstract expressionism and realism are cleverly interwoven into deeply personal reflections of our modern world. The show features paintings by Mark Hoffmann, Michael Crockett, Andrew Houle, David Leblanc, Greg Orfanos, and book art by Sean Randolph, Kurt Ankeny, and Jess Semeraro.
Montserrat College of Art will present “Plein Air — Here and Abroad” at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson St., Gloucester, Oct. 13-Nov. 13. An opening reception with the artists will be held on Sunday. Oct. 23 from 3-5 pm and the public is welcome.
The exhibit coincides with the first juried Cape Ann Plein Air Festival Oct. 10-16.
For nearly two centuries, Cape Ann (Massachusetts’ “other” Cape located 25 miles north of Boston) has been a destination for some of the finest painters who paint “en plein air.” Throughout its four picturesque seaside communities, Cape Ann Plein Air will host a week long plein-air painting celebration in October when the famous Cape Ann light shines at its very best.
Aritsts included in the Montserrat exhibit include former trustee William Fusco of Manchester, Founding Faculty member the late Roger Martin of Rockport, faculty Barbara Moody, Judith Brassard Brown and Ron DiRito; alumni Susan Cottle Alberto, Colin Maguire, Loren Doucette and Amanda Hawkins, and current students. Programs highlighted through faculty work are the college’s Study Abroad programs in Viterbo, Italy and Mallorca, Spain, the continuing education division, offering views of the college’s activities through the art work created through them.
Montserrat College of Art is a four-year residential college of art and design located in Beverly, MA offering the bachelor of fine arts degree, continuing studies for teens and adults, study abroad opportunities and four public galleries offering free openings and lectures with artists and creatives from around the country.
RNAC member exhibition of non-traditional plein air paintings and photographs. The exhibit takes place at the same time as the Montserrat College exhibition “Plein Air — Here and Abroad” located in the Cultural Center Gallery.
Participating artists: Matt Cegelis, Kathy Coakley, Anne Cowman, Ann Marie Crotty, Gail Gang, Kathleen George, Jan Goodwin, Dani Shirtcliff, Martha Wakefield
Judith Curtis, author of the Rocky Neck Art Colony, 1850-1950 will be giving an illustrated talk on the history of the Rocky Neck Art Colony, and the important American artists who have lived and worked on the peninsula.
Free and Open to the Public. If you wish to donate all proceeds of Judith Curtis’ talk will be accepted towards updating and expanding the Rocky Neck Historic Art Trail.
Silent horror film classic ‘Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde’accompanied by organist Peter Krasinski at the Gloucester Meetinghouse on Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 6:00pm.
World-renowned sonic artist Peter Krasinski performs on the grand 1893 Hutchings-Fisk pipe-organ in the historic Gloucester Meetinghouse, improvising accompaniment to 2 silent film classics: the Buster Keaton comedy, ‘The Haunted House’ and the scary main feature ‘Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde.’ Event opens with a fun costume parade and an impressive organ prelude.
Once in a while, when good people work together, something wonderful arises. That’s what you can expect on Saturday at the Queen Treatment Only Music Festival co-produced by award-winning Boston vocal powerhouse Ruby Rose Fox in partnership with us at gimmeLIVE.
Our vision was to bring the area’s top female artists together for one show on the same stage for an extraordinary night of music. Ruby has chosen a stellar lineup for what the press are calling a “groundbreaking” show (see videos of all artists here). Of course, no North Shore festival lineup would be complete without Gloucester’s Chelsea Berry!
Tickets are only $20 in advance GET THEM HERE ($30 at the door). ALL AGES festivals like this can pave the way for the next generation of girls and women to make independent music without apologies, fear or rules. Bring your friends for a one-of-a-kind musical experience you won’t see anywhere else!
Just in case you don’t know Chelsea, here’s a taste of some of her music:
And here’s a video of Ruby Rose Fox (some of which was shot the last time she played at The Larcom in Beverly)
Register for Cape Ann Reads by November 15, 2016. It’s easy! Applicants are signing up.
Visit the Cape Ann Libraries and the Cape Ann Reads website. Huge shout out and great feedback for Amanda Cook, the Gloucester Writers Center, for leading a monthly writers group at Sawyer Free for Cape Ann Reads which concluded yesterday.
A delightful couple from Indianapolis Indicia with their teen age daughter enjoy the quarries.
Couple from Denmark
A Couple originally from Beverly now live in upper state New York, visit the place he proposed forty years ago. Happy Anniversary
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This couple from Long Island California, he is originally from Scotland, and grew up in Manchester-By-The-Sea
Cape Ann Cinema & Stage bar will be open
Good Morning Gloucester 