Month: July 2018

Fiesta Parade Black and Whites

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi, I was at my mother in laws place in Gloucester on Sunday and attended the parade.  I am a street photographer by rep, my wife enjoys event photography.

You can find the better of my pics either on instagram, my handle is “pigmentallychallenged”  and a larger set of them are on my personal site

http://www.bobackphotography.com/p581425598

I have opened that gallery up to free downloading and will also upload the remainder of the in focus pics that were either too similar or less interesting as a street photographer but may still be interesting to those in your community.

Last note, I shoot most often in black and white for this type of event, (hence the Instagram tag).

My wife is still editing but I can forward her link once done.

Thanks to the town for a great Sunday this Irish Canadian spent a wonderful Canada Day hanging with his Italian American friends.  Will be back next year also.

Randy Boback

Quincy MA

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

God Bless America – In thinking about our beautiful country of immigrants and wondering, how does it feel to be a new immigrant in the America of today? History is again repeating itself in the horrendous mistreatment of the Central American refugees.

“God Bless America” was written by Irving Berlin one hundred years ago (1918) while Berlin was serving in the Army, but he set the song aside at that time. Berlin, born Israel Baline, was the son of a Jewish cantor fleeing persecution in Russia. With the rise of Hitler, in 1938 Berlin felt the time was right to release “God Bless America,” as a peace song. The backlash was immediate. Critics said a Jewish immigrant shouldn’t get to celebrate America as his (Berlin also wrote “White Christmas,” “Easter Parade,” and the popular Thanksgiving song “Plenty to be Thankful For.”)

In 1940, an American Nazi sympathizer wrote in his organization’s pro-Nazi newsletter “(I do) not consider G-B-A a ‘patriotic’ song, in the sense of expressing the real American attitude toward his country, but consider that it smacks of the ‘How glad I am’ attitude of the refugee horde of which Theodore Roosevelt said, ‘We wish no further additions to the persons whose affection for this country is merely a species of pawnbroker patriotism – whose coming here represents nothing but the purpose to change one feeding trough for another feeding trough.”

Does this response to Irving Berlin’s beautiful, patriotic, and now much beloved song sound familiar? Whether emigrating from Europe to America to escape religious persecution (the Pilgrims), starvation from the great potato famine (Irish), abject poverty, exploitation, and violence (Southern Italians and Sicilians), oppressive legislation and poverty (Eastern European Jews), or gang violence and rape (today’s Central American refugees) America is a country of immigrants and refugees. This is our past, our present, and our future. Irving Berlin arrived in America when he was five years old, the same age as many of the children being torn away from their mothers and fathers, some without any hope of ever being reunited with their parents. Imagine if Israel Baline had been torn from his mother’s arms, would we have the beautiful musical legacy given this country by one of her most famous sons?

God Bless America!, a phrase of gratitude young Israel Baline often heard uttered by his immigrant mother.

2018 Horribles Parade

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

What a fun night to watch the Horribles Parade.  Rick and I go to our friend’s office on Pleasant Street.  Just love this city and fun times.

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Happy 4th of July!!!

Posted on by charlene01930

Terrific kick off to 4th of July and the Horrible’s Parade, thanks to Felicia Ciaramitaro Mohan who got up so early and secured the great spot on the Boulevard. Then spent the day making Arancini and Bread on the hottest day of the year. Thanks to the parade committee who did Gloucester proud. Thanks to Warren Waugh and his beautiful tribute to Liz ending the evening with such special fireworks. Hope everyone continues their day with love, family and friends. HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

Thank you to the organizers and participants of this year’s Horribles Parade

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

With such little time between Fiesta and the third it must have been a daunting task to round up floats. I appreciate your hard work to pull it off.

July 14 At The Rocky Neck Cultural Center

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joey,

I am not sure if you will think this is news worthy but I thought I would let you know about this event anyway.

July 14th, 2018 my family (The Holaday Clan) is celebrating the 107th anniversary of our grandparents wedding at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center.

They are no longer with us of course – but it is a great excuse to have a family reunion. There are 90 of us and we are coming to Gloucester

from all over the planet (Canada, Vienna Austria, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut,

New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC). Many of us are going to be in town for the week and some only for a few days.

The reason we chose Gloucester for this event is it is another reunion of sorts. 51 years ago my mother’s siblings all rented vacation houses

In Gloucester for a week and each brought all their children along. There were only 34 in the group back then. The Holaday clan has grown to over

100 people now. There will be between 85 and 90 of us on July 14th.

My family has been coming to Gloucester to vacation every year since 1953. My father was an amazing artist and loved painting and

Sailing in Gloucester Harbor. You will no doubt see people walking on the Neck that week with T-shirts with his painting of the harbor

On their backs.

Best regards,

Robin Macphail DiIoia

GLOUCESTER DAYS – SUNDAY WALKERS AND BATHING BEAUTIES

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

This photo is for Scott Memhard 🙂

Sunday Walkers and Bathing Beauties 

Cape Ann Museum special exhibition of works by legendary artist and illustrator Harrison Cady opened Saturday July 7 closes Nov 9th

Posted on by Catherine

WELCOMING HARRISON CADY TO CAPE ANN MUSEUM _20180702_©c ryan

From the museum’s press release:

Cape Ann Museum’s special exhibition of works by artist and illustrator Harrison Cady (1877–1970)

Affectionately known to many as the bug painter, Harrison Cady (1877–1970) was a much loved member of Cape Ann’s summer art colony throughout the 20th century. A prolific illustrator, a printmaker and a painter, Cady was one of the last links to our nation’s Golden Age of Illustration, a distinction he earned through his long collaboration with writer Thornton Burgess. View from the Headlands, a special exhibition of works by artist and illustrator Harrison Cady (1877-1970) will open at the Cape Ann Museum on July 7, 2018, and remain on display through October 28, 2018.

Cady began his 70-year career as an illustrator with the Brooklyn Eagle and later worked for numerous popular American publications, including Life magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, the Saturday Evening Post, and Good Housekeeping. His syndicated comic strip “Peter Rabbit” ran in the New York Herald Tribune for 28 years.

A frequent visitor to Rockport, Massachusetts, Cady made it his permanent summer home in 1920, purchasing a seafront property known as “The Headlands.” With his studio “the Silo” located nearby, Cady shifted his focus to painting landscapes and harbor scenes. Cady was an early member of the Rockport Art Association, founded in 1921.

View from the Headlands draws on public and private collections throughout the region with examples of Cady’s early magazine illustrations, his work with writer Thornton W. Burgess, and his later landscape paintings. The exhibition reflects the Cape Ann Museum’s commitment to preserving and presenting work that celebrates the area’s culture and history.

Harrison Cady (1877–1970). Lane’s Cove, c.1930s. Oil on board. The James Collection, promised gift to the Cape Ann Museum.Cady_Harrison_©CAPE ANN MUSEUM.jpg

Walter Harrison Cady was born and raised in Gardner, Massachusetts, and headed to New York City at eighteen. The successful artist eventually had an eight room studio in the Sixty Seventh Studios building at 27 West 67, NYC. The Cadys purchased a summer house and studio on Atlantic Avenue in Rockport (see photos above). In addition to this exciting and rare chance to see original work by Cady at Cape Ann Museum, there is a new book celebrating Cady’s art currently in production: Madness in Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady. Cady had long ties with the Rockport Art Association and local artists. Cady’s work is in the collection of the Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and various private collections and institutions. The Archives of American Art has a gifted collection of Harrison Cady (sketchbooks, correspondence, estate papers digitized. How fantastic that work will be acquired by the Cape Ann Museum.

photos below: Harrison Cady sketchbook, ca. 1943. Harrison Cady papers, 1902-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Library of Congress

 

 

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Life Magazine, Volume 62, number 1616, page 658 (1913-10-16) Savannah College of Art and Design