Gloucester public schools have stellar community partners and locales
Mass Audubon Eastern Point Wildlife Sanctuary
Two+ centuries of naturalists in Gloucester is quite a legacy. Here’s a partial list from Robbins to Cramer and Smith to Smith–there have been notable champions most every decade.
- Mason Walton (Hermit of Gloucester)
- Alpheus Hyatt, principal founder of world famous Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole– from 1880-1886 the school was on Goose Cove and later off Lobster Cove
- BH VanVleck (wrote book with David Starr)- instructor at Annisquam seaside laboratory
- Samuel Sawyer land conservation
- Alfred G. Mayor (Hyatt’s son in law) marine zoologist- his studies on marine life led to 1905 book Sea Shore Life
- Prince Mahidol of Thailand “Sanitary Survey of the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts 1921 by M. Songkla” in city archives- Includes brief history of Gloucester and description of public health activities
- Roger Babson land conservation and watershed
- Dr. Ralph Dexter, began his studies on marine life in 1933 (later Kent State) and chimney swifts
- Ivy LeMon banded monarch butterflies to trace their migration wintering in Mexico
- Sara Fraser Robbins curator of education ( the title of her classic book The Sea is All About Us was a nod to Gloucester summer resident TS Eliot’ Four Quartets)
- Betty Smith
- Dan Greenbaum
- Sara Evans
- Philip Weld, Jr
- Jane Benotti
- Deborah Cramer
- Chris Leahy
- Harriet Webster
- Martin Ray
- Kim Smith
- Ian Kerr
organizations such as Gloucester Civic and Garden Club, Essex County Greenbelt, Mass Audubon, Ocean Alliance, Martime Gloucester, UMASS Marine Station…
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