My View of Life on the Dock
As amazing as the wildlife was in Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, the scenery rivaled for breathtaking beauty. The foliage was mostly at or near peak, a bonus I was not expecting. Rivers, waterfalls, large fields with towering mountains all made for stunning landscapes. It’s quintessentially American.
Fun and more fun at Safety Day on Saturday. Harbor Loop was full of people enjoying themselves. The first responders who were there, talked and explained the different examples of safety. One the favorites was Spot the bomb denotator. The kids loved it. The horses, K-9 dogs and helicopter were great. Thank you all who participated.
One Evening in Maine…
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You may know I have just returned from a photography tour to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. I’ve barely had a chance to really go through my photos but here is a sampling of some of the wildlife we saw along the way. The words that best describes the experience are amazing and humbling. The land is vast, much of the wildlife is enormous, the sky is as big as they say it is. I felt small amongst it as well as humbled. At the same time, there are also huge crowds full of such a variety of groups and cultures. Most were polite and engaging so I also felt part of something much bigger than any of us.
These are just a small sampling of the wildlife we were able to observe. If you ever consider a photography tour, I highly recommend Slonina Photography. The groups are small and the guides well versed and prepared for the location. I have gone on a number of tours with him and will be going again! More photos to come. Stay tuned to Pat D’s Photos and Adventures on Facebook for additional photos and stories.
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Wrap yourself up in one of our fleece blankets, sip hot cider, and watch the sun sink into autumn hues. Nothing beats a fall sunset on the water!
Join us this weekend! Sailing through mid-October.
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•Sunday 9/28 @ 2:00
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The following candidates have been invited:
· Greg Verga (Mayor – incumbent)
· Paul Lundberg (Mayor)
· Scott Memhard (Ward 1 – incumbent)
· Tracy O’Neil (Ward 1)
· Scott Benson (Ward 2- incumbent)
· Don Tgettis (Ward 2)
· Marjorie Grace (Ward 3 – incumbent)
· Joseph R. Orlando (Ward 3)
· Frank Margiotta (Ward 5 – unopposed)
· Sean Nolan (Ward 5 – unopposed).
Anyone who wants to attend the taping, please sign up in advance. Space is limited.
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Blessed to be able to walk Shore Road with the sunset club in September, what a great way to end a Friday.
Softscape…
Eight artists focused on the health of the ocean and our relationship to it make up the multimedia exhibition, Navigating Art & Science, now showing at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck through October 13.
Incoming Ocean, a site-specific video installation by Georgie Friedman, splashes across the interior architecture of the Cultural Center. The waves, filmed at nearby Halibut Point State Park, break over walls and doors, advancing toward one’s feet while also washing across a school of 50 life-sized Ghost Cod, hand-carved by Jessica Straus. Meanwhile a soundscape of whale songs and ocean sounds, Sky Fathoms Water by Perri Lynch Howard, arrives softly, builds momentum, and ebbs quietly. The visitor is fully immersed in sight and sound.
Beauty is a key ingredient in artist Resa Blatman’s toolbox; her drawings and paintings reflect her reverence for the natural world. Her works are both contrary and compelling. Finally, visitors who have been drawn in by the captivating image announcing this show and the city-wide STAND UP for ART & SCIENCE initiative, can see more of Michelle Samour’s brilliantly colored hand-made paper works on
the walls at the Cultural Center.
The public is invited to join several of the artists at the Cultural Center on September 28, from 4:00-5:30 PM for a lively conversation exploring how connections between artistic expression, scientific understanding, and imaginative thinking can address the challenges of the changing ocean.
The panel will be led by Christopher Volpe, artist, writer and educator, whose paintings are literally created with the toxic waste from fossil fuels, tar and oil. Peaks Island, Maine sculptor, Daisy Braun, joins the panel, bringing her perspective on plankton, those sustainers of life that uphold the food chain and produce over half the earth’s oxygen. Michelle Lougee, who makes colorful playful sculptures of sea creatures out of post-consumer plastic a material that both “horrifies and beguiles” her, rounds out the panel.
Navigating Art & Science exhibition continues through October 13, at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester. Gallery hours are 12-5pm, Thursday through Sunday.
Gloucester, MA — This October, Gloucester-based artist Deborah Read joins the Goetemann Artist Residency at Rocky Neck Art Colony with a deceptively simple but urgent inquiry: Does art have to be an object?
For Read, the answer has long been “not necessarily.” Her interdisciplinary practice—spanning installation, performance, writing, and collaborative projects—frames art as an act of generosity. As co-founder of Gallery RAG in Gloucester and the international foundation Art+Everywhere, she has created platforms that dissolve boundaries between artist and audience, centering collaboration, care, and mutual support.
Read’s projects invite participation and dialogue: immersive performances with Coco Haze that turn galleries into collective canvases, hybrid works with poet Joel Iwaskiewicz where language becomes performance, and community-based installations like Tejido Vivo, which weave craft traditions into living art. In each case, connection outweighs the object itself.
Her foundation Art+Everywhere embodies this vision, described by Read as “a global, artist-led ecosystem built on mutual generosity.” Its mission: expand access to funding, programming, and creative opportunities while removing barriers of gatekeeping institutions. “The challenge is not scarcity, but activation,” Read explains. “Compassion already exists—in hundreds of hands and eyes—ready to help.”
At Rocky Neck, her residency continues this ethos—not as a retreat into isolation, but as a public process of listening, generating, and sharing. “The question is never just ‘what did I make,’ but ‘what did we generate together?’ Generosity is generative—it can enrich lives, spaces, and even economies.”
Public Programs:
For Rocky Neck—a community shaped by both maritime labor and artistic innovation—Read’s residency is both a philosophical question and a practical experiment: What if art is not possession, but presence? Not scarcity, but abundance?
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The documentary film, “ Plastic People : The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics” will be shown at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street in Rockport on Wednesday, November 5 at 7pm. This award-winning feature documentary investigates our addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics on human health. The free screening is sponsored by the Interfaith Committee of the Cape Ann Climate Coalition. Doors open at 6:15 and the program starts promptly at 7 pm. Brief presentations from four panelists and a short Q & A will follow the film. Free! / No registration required. For more information contact: info@capeannclimatecoalition.org
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Good Morning Gloucester 