My View of Life on the Dock
There are now two graduates of this program on staff in my lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Â This program works.
I especially like the quote of a trainee,
“It’s just exciting. You want to come in every day and see what you’re going to do next or look at the results”
If you graduated from high school and college for some reason is not in the cards right now and you are not all that excited about your current job, try science out.
Beverly’s Kim Gregory Pure Pastry (the creator of some of the most decadent and delicious treats you could ever taste) is hosting a wonderfully local street fair this Saturday. While the family friendly event is free, they are excited to raise money for both Sweet Paws Rescue and Windrush Farm. Information about both amazing organizations can be found at the links below. Several fantastic vendors, artisans, and farmers will be showcasing their goods….available for purchase. There will also be live music.
Do you love your North Shore Neighborhood? We sure do!!!! We feel so blessed to live in an area that gifts us with great New England foods, music, art, devoted community members…. Let’s celebrate all this pure goodness together!!!!
Come join us at our Purely Good in Our Neighborhood event on Sunday, October 27th from 2p to 5p. We’re hosting a celebration honoring our local neighbors, encouraging a purely good time in our Gateway Lane neighborhood. All the goodness of our local talented, kind, giving neighbors here, in the Beverly area, come together for an afternoon for you to enjoy local sweets, savory foods, live music & other entertainment, sustainable goods, local artisans, farmers and more!
BONUS * * This is a FREE family-friendly event. All local farmers, artisans & food vendors will be selling their goods. Cash, Debit or Credit Cards will be accepted.
This celebration supports Sweet Paws Essex, MA & Windrush Farm based in North Andover, MA. Donations appreciated; however, not required for attendees. Kim Gregory | Pure Pastry is hosting the non-profit “Purely Good in Our Neighborhood”. 100% of the donations go to these non-profit organizations. Please consider donating.
SEE KIM GREGORY PURE PASTRY WEBSITE HERE
We have heard how great breakfast is at the Atlantis Oceanfront Cafe so off we went. They were not wrong, it was wonderful. I had the frittata which featured asparagus, ricotta and mozzarella cheese. Jim had the Country Breakfast. Cafe closes for the season this Sunday October 27, so get yourself over there this week if you want to try it for yourself.
Ayurveda Wellness Healing, LLC and Acupuncture Family Care Greta Williams Lic Acu are excited to announce a healing experience like no other.
The practices of acupuncture and restorative yoga are a fusion of the best healing gifts from two ancient Asian cultures. These modalities free up stagnant energies within the physical, emotional, and mental bodies. This process presents an opportunity to let go of the old and welcome the new. Studies have shown that healing is most effective when done in a nurturing group setting. In this workshop students will hold supported yogic postures for an extended period of time while receiving a an acupuncture treatment
The practices of acupuncture and yoga amplify each other’s benefits. This workshop is open to yogis of all levels and ages.
No yoga experience in necessary.
When: October 24
Where: Ayurveda Wellness Healing
Cost: $60
Pre-Registration is required for this event. To reserve your…
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Join us for the 37th Annual Essex ClamFest from 11AM to 4PM in Shepard Memorial Park in Essex. The festival is free to attend and it is $10 to take part in the Clam Chowder Tasting Competition.
CLAM CHOWDER TASTING
from Noon – 2 PM (while supplies last)
$10 to Taste & vote for your favorite
2019 CLAM CHOWDER COMPETITORS
C.K. pearl
Ipswich Clambake
J.T. Farnhams
Lobsta Land Restaurant
Shea’s Riverside Restaurant & Bar
Village Restaurant
Woodman’s of Essex
Windward Grille
Although the highlight of the day is the Chowder Tasting Competition, there is a great variety of activities, including local vendor and maker booths, live entertainment and plenty of food vendors on-site! Rain Date: October 27
** NO PETS ALLOWED
PRESENTING PARTNER: BankGloucester
GOLD SPONSOR: First Ipswich Bank
SUPPORTING SPONSOR: Solar Five
Also, National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (from 10-1, outside the police/fire station), and that we will also…
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Nia is a head to toe wellness practice, with elements of dance, martial arts, yoga, and cardiovascular conditioning. We work with movements that help build core strength while honoring our body with its strengths and limitations. People think because Nia is a no impact movement form, that it is easy and not a true workout. it all depends on how you move and how intensely you use your core muscles. It can be both an incredible workout and is adaptable for those with limitations. All in the same class! Come try it if you haven’t. You will be amazed at the results.
Here is what Nia headquarters says about the practice of Nia:
Combining dance, martial arts and mindfulness, Nia tones your body while transforming your mind. More than just a workout, Nia is a holistic fitness practice addressing each aspect…
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Four exclamation points for four beautiful Mute Swans. They arrived yesterday afternoon. Thank you to my dear swan-loving friend Lyn Fonzo for the alert ❤
There don’t appear to be any brownish-gray adolescent feathers leading us to believe they are at least two years old. Young Mute Swans often join a flock, remaining until they are of breeding age, typically at about four years old.
I don’t think our visitors are familiar with people. A gentleman came to the water’s edge with a bucket of food for the ducks. The Swans showed no interest in the food and kept their distance.
All four Swans have black eyes. Mr. Swan, who is blue-eyed, has not been seen at all his usual haunts for many months. He was at least twenty-nine years old when last seen, which is a very, very, ripe old age for a Mute Swan not kept in captivity. Most wild Mute Swans only live ten to twelve years.
One of the Swans was super bossy, giving another of the Swans several nips.
Two appeared rather enamored of each other ❤
Shakespeare’s
HAMLET
SET TO OPEN AT GLOUCESTER STAGE
Acclaimed Boston Actress Gigi Watson Makes GSC Debut as HAMLET
Gloucester Stage Company wraps up its 40th Anniversary Season of professional theater with William Shakespeare’s  Hamlet from October 25 through November 17 at Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA.. Hamlet’s story begins when she meets her father’s ghost, revealing that her uncle, Claudius, has murdered him and taken Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, for his queen. Hamlet then begins her journey of revenge while struggling with self-doubt and facing challenges from all sides. Hamlet features Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Project Christopher V. Edwards in his GSC directing debut and a cast headlined by acclaimed Boston actress Gigi Watson making her GSC debut in the title role of Hamlet. The cast also includes GSC newcomers Shawn K. Jain as Claudius, Charlotte Kinder as Ophelia, Olivia Miller as Gertude, Zachary Zamsky as Laertes,  and a returning GSC favorite from 2017’s SRO production of To Kill A Mockingbird, Thomas Grenon as Polonius.
Director Christopher V. Edwards comments on staging Shakespeare’s enduring classic in 2019, “Hamlet is a show about where we live with our personal moral compass. It lends itself to various types of people, ages of people, genders of people, races and cultures of people to look at the play through their own lens. In the GSC production we will be looking at Hamlet as a woman and we’re looking at how that changes the dynamics of the relationships between people. It’ll be a same sex relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia, and there’s generational conflict inherent in the play. We’re also interested in how young people today are dealing with this issue of feeling disenfranchised and not quite sure how they want to define themselves and how they want the world to define them and whether they want to be defined.”
Director Christopher V. Edwards’ Boston credits include Pride and Prejudice, Equivocation (Elliot Norton Nomination for Best Play), and Much Ado About Nothing, all with Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Some of his favorite shows include: Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, Around the World in 80 Days,Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Water by the Spoonful, The Bomb-itty of Errors,How to Break, Venus in Fur, and A Raisin in the Sun. He has worked in London’s West End, Off-Broadway, The National Theatre of Oslo in Norway, The Helix in Ireland, The Fringe in Edinburgh, John Houseman’s The Acting Company, HERE Arts Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Penumbra Theatre, The Flea Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Hip-Hop Theatre Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, SOHO Rep, the Guthrie Theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and Dorset Theater Festival among others. Mr. Edwards received an M.F.A. from the U. of MN in Association with the Guthrie Theatre. Prior to becoming the Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, he spent three years at Nevada Conservatory Theatre as the Artistic Director and on the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and fourteen years with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, NY as the Associate Artistic Director, the Director of Education and Apprentice Training.
Gigi Watson makes her GSC debut as Hamlet. Her regional credits include Rhinoceros, and Lenin’s Embalmersat Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater; Small Mouth Sounds and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime at SpeakEasy Stage; Brawler at Boston Playwrights Theatre; Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, andMacbeth with Brown Box Theatre Project; Billy Elliot with Wheelock Family Theatre; Finish Line with Boston Theater Company; and CafĂ© Variations with ArtsEmerson/SITI Company. Ms. Watson holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Emerson College. She coaches acting and audition prep with My College Audition. This winter, Ms Watson will play Portia in The Merchant of Venice with Actors Shakespeare Project.Â
Thomas Grenon returns to GSC to play Polonius after previously appearing in GSC’s critically-acclaimed 2017 production of To Kill A Mockingbird directed by Judy Braha. A Boston based actor; Mr. Grenon received an IRNE award nomination last season for Best Actor in a Fringe Play for Delicate Particle Logic with Flat Earth Theatre Company. He has worked with many Boston area theater companies including Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Bridge Repertory Company, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Zeitgeist Stage Company, Hub Theatre Company, Arts After Hours, 7 Stages Shakespeare Company and The Bay Colony Shakespeare Company. Mr. Grenon produced and directed 8 The Play, the fight for Marriage Equality for Broadway Impact. He attended the National Shakespeare Conservatory in NYC.
Shawn K. Jain is making his GSC debut as Claudius. Originally from Northern California, Mr. Jain is an actor and communications professional based in New York City. His previous stage credits include New Repertory Theatre (Heartland), Merrimack Repertory Theater (Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley), American Repertory Theater (Charlotte’s Web, Assistance, Our Town), Moscow Art Theater (Fear and Misery in the Third Reich), Constellation Theatre (The Fire and The Rain), Prince George’s County Shakespeare (Twelfth Night). Mr. Jain’s upcoming Film/TV performances include Thespian, Season 2 on Amazon, A Ring for Christmas, and Extra Room. He trained at the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theater School.
Charlotte Kinder is  making her GSC debut as Ophelia. Her recent credits include Twelfth Night (Viola) andShipwrecked! (Ensemble) with Moonbox Productions; Red Velvet (Ellen Tree) with O.W.I. Bureau of Theatre;Julius Caesar (Portia) with the Actors’ Shakespeare Project; King Lear, Romeo & Juliet (Juliet-CSC2),and Twelfth Night with the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Everyman (Sister/Fellowship) andGreenland (Tanya) with the Apollinaire Theatre Company; Northanger Abbey (Catherine) at the Wickham Theatre in Bristol, England; and Frankenstein (Elizabeth) at the Bristol Festival of Ideas. Ms. Kinder holds a Masters in acting from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Olivia Miller is making her GSC debut as Gertrude. Her New York stage credits include Cherry Lane Theater and Culture Project and on film, Lolita Express. Ms. Miller’s local credits include Trinity Repertory Company, OBERON, Wilbury Theatre Group, and Greater Boston Stage. Her recent roles include Audrey in Little Shop ofHorrors at Trinity Rep; Greta Garbo in Coming Attraction with Wilbury Theatre Group; Susan intick…tick…BOOM and Viola in Twelfth Night with Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company. Her solo show, Bloody Mary: LIVE!,” which imagines Queen Mary I as a standup comic, had it’s Boston premiere at the American Repertory Theater’s OBERON in August 2019. She earned her BA from Harvard College and her MFA from Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company.
Recent Boston University graduate Zachary Zamsky is making his GSC debut as Laertes. After graduating last spring from Boston University, Mr. Zamsky headed home to New York, where starred onstage in Morning by Simon Stephens, and in a television pilot where he played a variety of roles that ranged from a Renaissance bad boy to mime to a hit man. He recently appeared in the short film, Union County.
HAMLET PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES:
OCTOBER 25 – NOVEMBER 17
Public performances are limited to weekends with student matinees weekdays.
OCTOBER 25-OCTOBER 27
Fridays & Saturday: 7:30 pm;
Saturday & Sunday: 2:00 pm
NOVEMBER 2-NOVEMBER 17
Saturday: 7:30 pm
Sunday: 2:00 pm
Student Matinees October 29 – November 15
Tuesdays – Fridays: 10:00am
PLACE:
Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
SINGLE TICKET PRICES: Single Ticket prices are $15 to $48 with discounts available for Preview Performances, Senior Citizens, Military Families, and College Students and those under 18 years of age. For detailed ticket information visit www.gloucesterstage.com
PAY WHAT YOU WISH: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2 PM: Gloucester Stage is committed to inclusion and diversity, including socio-economic status. Pay What You Wish performances are the first Saturday Matinee (2pm) of each production, allowing access to the arts for all. No one is turned away for lack of funds and donations can be made before or after the show.
CAPE ANN NIGHTS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 7:30 PM; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2 PM & 7:30 PM; Enriching our local community is key to our mission impact. Residents of Cape Ann can purchase $25 tickets at Preview Performances and every Wednesday of each production. Limit of 2 (two) per household. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Box Office 978.281.4433, with a valid address.
POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS: SUNDAY: NOVEMBER 3 & NOVEMBER 10: Following the 2 pm performances on Sunday, NOVEMBER 3 and Sunday, NOVEMBER 10, audiences are invited to free post-show discussions with the artists from Hamlet.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Gloucester Stage is a professional non-profit theater providing a unique, intimate experience as audiences are never more than five rows from the stage. Located in a century-old repurposed brick warehouse on the waterfront of Cape Ann, the organization is led by Artistic Director Robert Walsh and Managing Director Christopher Griffith. Now in the Company’s 40th Season, GSC benefits from a loyal audience searching for intellectually stimulating and socially relevant stories.
For further information, call the Gloucester Stage Box Office at 978-281-4433
or visit GLOUCESTERSTAGE.CO
Local artist Amy Kerr will be on Channel 4 this evening
– I Am More: Massachusetts will be on channel 4 news tonight, either 5 or 6:00 hour and online by tonight!
On Monday, the late afternoon was looking beautiful. Decided instead of going to the gym, why be inside on a sunny day, went walking Magnolia Beach up to Ocean Lawn with Clark Pond showing off some fall colors. The sun was so bright.
WARM AUTUMN COLORS with FREE CIDER & DONUTSÂ
                                                  at First Church of Ipswich, Ipswich, MA
Be embraced by the warmth of music on an autumn afternoon! Program includes:Â BORODIN String Quartet;Â DVORAK Terzetto for 2 Violins and Viola; and
Sunday, January 19, 2020, 2:00 PM    HIDDEN TREASURES       St. Paul Lutheran Church – Gloucester
Sunday, February 16, 2020, 2:00 PMÂ Â SERIOUSLY GORGEOUSÂ Â Â Â Shalin Liu Performance Center – Rockport
Sunday, April 26, 2020, 2:00 PM     FLOWERS IN THE RAIN    Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church – Gloucester
HALLOWEEN MOVIE SPECIAL: TWO FACES OF FRANKENSTEIN, AT THE GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE
From Oxford, Boston, California
Good Morning Gloucester 