My View of Life on the Dock
We tried the Mooring Restaurant in Manchester for dinner recently. Located on Union Street, it is a very small place with a pub-like atmosphere. The limited seating available during the pandemic allows for very few seats. The menu is small but varied and there was a daily special in addition. I had the chicken gyro and Jim had the daily special French dip which was served on a Virgilio’s roll. Jim especially enjoyed the side salad offered as a replacement for the fries. Our server, Amanda, was appropriately masked and distanced and did a great job as the only server while we were there. We might plan to return for lunch because of the pub type setting, nice and relaxed with a view of the world going by.
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Up the creek…
The Experimental Group of Rockport’s Art Association & Museum is happy to host a zoom presentation with award winning artist, Lisa Goren. Learn how Goren has moved forward with her art during these difficult times. Listening, creating, and accepting that a change was needed and then taking that change to the public, as a part of her artist persona.
Artist Bio:
Lisa Goren was raised in NYC and has been working in Boston, Massachusetts for the past 25 years. She is the current Vice-President of the National Association of Women Artists (Mass. Chapter). During the Pandemic, she has been working on smaller paintings of ‘Animals Taking Over during the Quarantine’ as well as portraits of health care workers (chosen to be in The Best Art Created by Washington Post Readers During the Pandemic by Washington Post). Lisa has also been published in the New York Times, http://nyti.ms/1PAO5mr.
Don’t miss Lisa’s current show featuring over one hundred works at the Cotuit Center for the Arts thru May 1, 2021.
The Experimental Group is a creative forum, its main mission is to increase public awareness and to foster self-expression by bringing artists together to explore and share ideas that cultivate creative freedom. The EG is encouraged and supported by the Rockport Art Association & Museum.
If you would like a zoom invite to the event, please contact: Nella Lush, Experimental Group, Chair, via email experimentalgroupraa@gmail.com The Rockport Art Association & Museum (RAA&M) is one of the oldest and most active art organizations in the country. The Association has a long and distinguished history that has spanned 100 years.
Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative on Main Street in Gloucester is calling all Artists, Makers and Designers to become members. Please check out or website at local-colors.org for more information and how to apply.
This spring day was like summer
My boys have long since gotten over seeing their “name in lights” while driving in/out of Boston. Looking for the big pink letters that spell out “Schrafft’s” used to be a game we played when off on adventures. As they grew older they were more impressed that they have lineage in the Candy Business than seeing their name. Go figure.
Thanks to Paul Horovitz for snapping this photo upon stumbling upon this great wooden box!
I’m not sure where American gets off considering itself a premium airline. Planes are ancient. They charge for baggage. We got no food service. Delays.
At least Spirit you generally get cheaper flights.
I think American sucks.
All the people that fly Spirit and have a delay forget that Jet Blue and American have delays as well only you pay way more.
Jet Blue at least they have TVs and WiFi free.
There’s no reason to pay more to fly American if your only options are Spirit and American.
I’d pay more to fly Jet Blue but not American.
And before anyone starts in saying that Spirit nickle and dimes you-
Spirit starts off with a super low fare and you pay ala cart for what you want 99 percent of the times you can still fly cheaper on Spirit plus the upgrades than flying American.
F American.
The Magnolia Pier shows off its springtime beauty. I love it there!
The pink house….
The good folks of the North Shore and especially Ipswich have joined forces with True North Brewery in Ipswich to make our Hook-A-Cure / Dana-Farber Blood Drives a HUGE success.
In our first two drives, we had enough blood donated to easily save over 200 people!
Even under Covid protocols, so many people requested an appointment, we had to turn people away! Something we never want to do.
So to solve the problem, True North expanded the drive into a two day event to hopefully accommodate all who want to join us!!
For those returning, we send a deeply felt Thank-you and look forward to seeing you again! For those brand new to our Drives, know that beside the obvious, True North gives out a Pint of their wonderful brews for every Pint of donated blood!
Just to insure you know how important a blood donation can be…here is a quote from a Cancer patient we know:
“As I sit here and listen to the nurses reading off Lot Numbers of the blood they’re preparing to administer, I’d be remiss to not take the opportunity to (again) remind my dear friends: if you can give blood, please do. YOU WILL SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE…someone who is somebody’s parent, spouse, child…someone who is somebody’s everything.”
You never know the impact of your kindness…be somebody’s everything!
So please join us and register for either Friday, April 30th, 2021 at tinyurl.com/TrueA30 or Saturday, May 1st, 2021 at tinyurl.com@TrueM1. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Brigham and Woman’s Hospital Blood Mobile, will be at True North Ales, 116 County Road, Ipswich, Ma. from 8:30 to 3:00 both days.
“Donate your blood for a reason, let the reason to be life”
Calling all Gloucester, Cape Ann, North Shore and New England area artists! One monumental exterior wall and two interior sites are available for commission submission in downtown Gloucester on the new apartment building, Harbor Village. The exterior mural $5500 (fee & materials. Lift will be supplied.) Two mural opportunities (10 x 10; 10 x 15) inside are $2000 each (fee & materials).
“North Shore Community Development Coalition (NSCDC) and Action Inc. have partnered together to bring new art into downtown Gloucester through the Punto Urban Art Museum (PUAM)…The goal for this call is to provide opportunities for local/regional artists to bring life and color into downtown of Gloucester. Selected Artists/teams will be a part of efforts in celebrating the 400th anniversary of Gloucester!”
Submission Deadline Sunday May 2, 2021- midnight; project completion target end of summer 2021.
Harbor Village: a new mixed income apartment building developed by Action Inc. and North Shore Community Development Coalition on 206 Main Street at Elm (formerly Cameron’s) now under construction.
Harbor Village website HERE.
Not here
Exterior mural could be visible from the next blocks: oblique angle view back to mural wall on Elm Street from Pleasant Street (between Cape Ann Museum and Jane Deering Gallery)
and strip at top visible from Chestnut
Action, Inc. continues a tradition of supporting the arts with these new commissions. The organization has a history of collaboration with community arts partners, commissioning original public art for its buildings, and preserving any historic assets (buildings and art).
Here is a selection of some of the exterior public art murals in Gloucester. Depending upon your device, double click or pinch and zoom to enlarge and/or right click to see the credit details. On mine there is an option to select “view full size”. Indoor murals include masterworks from Gloucester’s public art collection (for example see its major WPA-era New Deal murals).
Artist experience runs the gamut: outsider and novice artists; community collaborations (with established artists helping youth); and solo endeavors (from trained professionals whether emerging or midcareer, established and revered).
Nowadays Supreme Roast Beef
1930s | 2012 | 2021
photo credit: Catherine Ryan
Potential walls in Gloucester abound. At the back of Cape Ann Museum on Elm Street across from the new Harbor Village. One day O’Maley (see prior post here)
Good Morning Gloucester 