July 29th 10 AM and 11AM
popup planetarium will be set up in City Hall as part of Sawyer Free children’s library summer 2019 Universe of Stories themed programs
Month: July 2019
KIM SMITH FREE MONARCH EVENT FOR KIDS AT THE SAWYER FREE LIBRARY
Save the date for my upcoming Monarch Butterfly program for kids at the Sawyer Free Library on August 21st at 10am. This program is free and held in conjunction with the Cape Ann Reads exhibit on display at the Sawyer Free.
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Sssnakes at Sawyer Free children’s library | scenes from Rick Roth visit
Summer reading, new books, ongoing weekly programs, and special summer events: Sawyer Free children’s department is impressive! Families time regular visits to check out and return books with an array of fun plans. Rick Roth and crew engendered smiles and gasps with snakes from New England and the world on July 27, 2019.
Ssssecurity!
Captures from Assistant librarian and wonderful photographer Linda Bosselman
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With the crowds at capacity year round, the children’s library is ideal on this level.
Imagine using stairs and the elevator to access the crush of ongoing and popular children’s programs on a proposed top floor of a proposed new building (review plans here). Sawyer Free has appropriated $935,000 from the endowment for a fundraising firm to assist with the capital campaign to raise 20 million of a 26 million plus project. Preliminary plans displayed at the annual meeting can be seen here
The childen’s department needs renovation and expansion, and access to its outdoor space again. The future planned terracing limits the public outdoor space and will impact the rich flexibility of so many outdoor options, running around and programs this department made use of since the Monell build.
Reminder – Pop UP Planetarium at City Hall tomorrow July 29,2019 summer 2019 a Universe of Stories (separate reminder post coming)
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Gloucester Orioles and Hummingbirds
We are happy to share our backyard with any number of wonderful birds. These are some that make me especially happy.
Hummingbird: one minute resting in a branch and gone the next!
We hadn’t seen orioles for a while so were are happy to welcome them back. So lucky to live here!
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Last night was blackened haddock tacos on the @WeberGrills Go-Anywhere and @LodgeCastIron skillet at Niles Beach and it was GLORIOUS!
Glorious. Living a mile away from your favorite beach is pretty sweet.
What makes it sweeter is hanging with some of your favorite people and cooking incredible food while your toes are still in the sand on that very same beach.
A little EVOO and Paul Prudhomme Blackened Fish Seasoning. Cook it up on the Lodge Cast Iron skillet , toast the taco shells and add Kate’s awesome homemade slaw, avocado crema or my sriracha mayo or all that!
Heaven.
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Live Music July 30: Gorrell-Landoni Duo at Feather & Wedge
Join Feather & Wedge for dinner and an evening of great jazz with the Gorrell-Landoni Duo.
This accomplished jazz duo will perform music from the Great American Songbook as well as arrangements pop, R&B, and original compositions.
Tuesday, July 30
7:30 – 10:00 PM
Reservations highly suggested! 978.999.5917
Feather & Wedge, 5 Main Street, Rockport, MA 019166
https://featherandwedge.com
978.999.5917
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An Afternoon to Remember
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Meetinghouse Green
SMOKY CABARET CONCERT BY ‘WHAT TIME IS IT, MR. FOX?’
August 2 free soul and rock concert on Meetinghouse Green
Gloucester residents and visitors are in for a total treat on Friday, August 2, at the fifth free concert of Cape Ann’s smoky and exuberant band ‘What Time Is it, Mr. Fox? ‘ at Meetinghouse Green, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Led by the gender-defying voice of singer-songwriter 3rian King. ‘What Time Is It, Mr. Fox’ will pack a punch of emotional authenticity and originality with their songs that marry lyrical imagery and theatricality with cinematic sensibility. Themes of love, spirituality, sexuality and identity permeate their songs and performance. (Highly recommended: go see the group’s multimedia animated musical, ‘Medusa: Reclaiming the Myth’ at the Charles Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science, August 22.)
Named after a Victorian children’s game, ‘What Time Is it, Mr. Fox?’ time-travels from 1960s New Orleans soul, to the minstrels of Medieval France, and then lands in the Tin Pan Alley era of NYC. The band began as a duo in 2004, featuring vocalist 3rian King and trumpeter Nathan Cohen, and quickly became a fixture of Boston’s underground cabaret scene, blending music with elements of circus, dance and performance art. In 2014 the band re-formed as a 5-piece ensemble, including Dennis Monagle on drums, Renee Dupuis on voice, keys and melodica, and Joe Cardoza on upright bass, along with the original founders, Nathan Cohen and 3rian King. The band collaborates with acclaimed filmmaker and Harvard Professor, Ruth Lingford, with extraordinary creative results. Their song ‘The Ladies’ Tree’ was turned into an animated short, and ‘Medusa’ also features Lingford’s zany and spectacular animations.
Catch 3rian King and his band ‘What Time Is It Mr. Fox?’ as their star rises, and while they still perform in Gloucester and Cape Ann.
Each week Music on Meetinghouse Green partners with a different non-profit organization to raise awareness for the services they provide to the local community. At the August 2 concert, the audience is invited to contribute a freewill donation to Maritime Gloucester, a non-profit organization providing a maritime museum, sea pocket aquarium, working waterfront, and maritime education to all ages, in Gloucester. Common Crow will provide fresh natural food for concert-goers.
The Gloucester Meetinghouse, home of the Unitarian Universalist Church, is located at the corner of Church and Middle Streets. The concert is handicapped accessible. Event parking is available on the green and at additional parking lots nearby in the Historic District. Folding chairs will be provided or bring your own beach chair. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be held inside the Meetinghouse.
The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation is grateful to our 2019 sponsors who made this series possible:
Hero: Scobie Ward
Platinum Tier: J.J. & Jackie Bell, Cape Ann Savings Bank, Harry & Mary Hintlian
Gold Tier: John and Janis Bell, Bomco, Michael & Mary Ann Bresnan
Silver Tier: Anonymous, Gib and Sarah Carey, JoeAnn Hart & Gordon Baird, Charles Nazarian, John and Sandra Ronan
Bronze Tier: Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, Bill & Rose Hausman
All 2019 Music on Meetinghouse Green concerts are dedicated in honor of Linzee Coolidge and the late Beth Coolidge for their vision and generosity.
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Chamber Of Commerce Fly By At The Dock
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Coolidge Point programs
~ JULY 24, 2019 ~ BEAUPORT, THE SLEEPER-MCCANN HOUSE ~
~ JULY 24, 2019 ~ BEAUPORT, THE SLEEPER-MCCANN HOUSE ~
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Birds at Parker River National Wildlife Refige
We had not been over to Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Newbury recently, so we took the ride a few days ago. We battled the greenheads in order to bring you this post, so please keep that in mind! We saw several bird species we had not seen there previously; many unknown to me (not being an actual bird watcher). I thought you might enjoy these anyhow…..please remember several greenhead bites were suffered to obtain these! 🙂
Sandpiper of some sort I think:
Killdeer:
Unknown and very interesting:
Some sort of mating ritual or perhaps defending territory?
Great Blue Heron in flight I believe:
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Join us Saturday and Sunday morning for All-Levels Yoga on the Harbor!
8-9am Every Saturday and Sunday all summer long!
Maritime Gloucester
23 Harbor Loop
Be a part of the working Gloucester waterfront! Get outside, get fit, and make some new friends.
This one hour class is appropriate for all levels of experience. Our welcoming teachers will guide you through a safe and invigorating yoga practice surrounded by the sights and sounds of Gloucester harbor.
Please bring a yoga mat, water, and a sweatshirt.
Some mats are available on a first come first serve basis.
The price is $15.
You can pay with cash on site, card on site or online. Preregistration is greatly appreciated.
Members of Maritime Gloucester may buy a 5 class pack for $60 or a summer unlimited for $150 (these apply only to Yoga on the Harbor classes).
(CAPY/ YMCA/ CFCA packages and unlimiteds don’t apply to these classes.)
Find out about Maritime Gloucester membership here: https://maritimegloucester.org/support/membership
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Nationally Acclaimed Native American Flautist Jonah Littlesunday, Performing on Cape Ann
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Jonah Littlesunday will be in New England for the first time this August, performing his riveting, soulful, healing music along with sharing information about his Native American culture, history and folklore. Multiple Concerts will be held on Cape Ann.
Member of the Diné (Navajo) Nation, Jonah was introduced to the world when he was invited by Cindy and Meghan McCain to play flute at Senator John McCain’s funeral, to help Heal a Nation. Here is Jonah performing Expressions of Love.
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GOOD HARBOR BEACH ROSE GOLD
Good Morning Gloucester, brought to you by today’s Good Harbor Beach magical rosie gold sunrise.
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Beautiful Beach Days
Half Moon Beach
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Winslow Homer and Women’s Bathing Practices
Saturday, August 17, 10:00 a.m.
Coolidge Point: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial, 9 Coolidge Point, Manchester, Mass.
$15 Historic New England and Cape Ann Museum, $20 nonmembers
The Cape Ann Museum and Historic New England invite you to take a fresh look at Winslow Homer’s seaside paintings. Join Elizabeth Block, PhD, senior editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for a discussion of Homer’s paintings within the context of women’s bathing, dress, and hair practices of the early 1870s and as an extension of the artist’s early magazine illustrations. Following the lecture, enjoy the waterfront Coolidge Point grounds. Light refreshments provided.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869 – 1880, on view at the Cape Ann Museum from August 3 to December 1, 2019.
Coolidge Point is open to the public for events and special programs in 2019.
For more information visit HistoricNewEngland.org or call 978-522-5540.
Reserve tickets and information about a partner lecture with the Cape Ann Museum
https://my.historicnewengland.org/2774/4768
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