GMG Jimmy and I recently attended a program held at the Rose Baker Senior Center presented by Beth Welin, Directory of the Manchester Historical Museum. This program focused on the Grand Hotels of Gloucester in the Gilded Age and included many hotels familiar to Gloucester residents: Oceanside, Fairview, Hawthorne, Moorland and Thorwald. Ms. Welin reported that many of these grand hotels suffered major fires. Several of those fires were suspected arson.
This piqued my interest and, armed with some name and dates, we went directly from the program to Sawyer Free Library to do some research. Technically, I did the research. I think GMG Jimmy enjoyed some coffee. I digress.
As I approached the Gloucester local history collection, I was delighted to see some new equipment available for researchers interested in reading microfilm. Archivist Katelynn Vance was pleased to show off the new digital scanner from which you can manipulate, save to flash drive or email the images!! WOOT WOOT She also took some time to show me some of the other microfilm available for research besides a full run of the Gloucester Daily Times including the Boston Globe and the New York Times. I was in research heaven. I had such a good time, GMG Jimmy had to drag me away, but I’ll be going back sooner than later.
This is one of the images as I saw it on the new scanner from the December 11 1958. I sent myself a jpeg file of this image to my email. BOOM!
This is the picture file….MAGIC!
Welcome to the Sawyer Free Library, STimaging ST ViewScan 4! I love you.
Good Morning Gloucester 
In order to know where your heading you must look back at the past on the path! They have done a great job here for historical research and records as you have found out up front and personal. Thanks for the history! Stay Safe and be extra careful with (Nor’easter).
Dave & Kim
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