Month: July 2026

Alfresco…

🦞 $18.99 + tax Lobster Roll served with chips & pickles
🍕 16” Pizzas HALF PRICE — maximum of 2
🍕 Buy any 18” pizza and get the second HALF PRICE!

• Limit one 18” pizza special per customer.

Stop in and grab these delicious deals!

Excludes gluten-free and online orders. Pizza specials cannot be combined.

We have had some family commitments these last couple of weeks and haven’t had time in the shop for a while but we will be BACK starting Thurs Aug 6 from noon-5; Friday and Saturday 11-5 and Sunday 11-3. We are featuring our nightlights now available in the best selection as you start to think about upcoming holidays. Buy now, gift later. We’ll see you in the shop, but remember we respond to messages and will deliver locally for free! Feel free to email GMGPatD at gmail.com (trying to avoid extra spam by writing it out). We will also special order any print you have on hand or from our catalog but now is the time to start planning for that holiday gift giving! Here are just some of the current nightlights on hand($30 each)

Jennifer Loiselle of Methuen, MA begins a nautical scene on Laura and Company Hair Salon’s front window

GLOUCESTER, MA – Gloucester’s Main Street is becoming an outdoor art gallery this summer as eight local and regional artists transform storefront windows into vibrant public murals through Imagining Gloucester’s Future, a new public art initiative celebrating Gloucester’s identity, creativity, and future.

Developed by Miranda Aisling, Arts, Culture & Events Coordinator for the City of Gloucester, the project is presented in partnership with the 2025–2026 Making it Public Program and made possible through support from the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC).

The project invited artists to imagine Gloucester’s future through themes such as community, art, fishing, tourism, and the city’s unique coastal landscape. By bringing original artwork into the heart of downtown, the initiative activates Main Street with engaging, place-based art that reflects Gloucester’s rich culture while encouraging residents and visitors to experience the downtown in a new way. Artists began installing the murals on July 30. All eight murals are expected to be completed by August 14 and will remain on display through the week of November 9.

Following a selection process led by the Gloucester Committee for the Arts, eight artists were paired with downtown businesses that volunteered their storefront windows as canvases:

• Mike Grimaldi (Gloucester, MA) – Saluti, 272 Main Street
• Eliza Jane Seastone (Ipswich, MA) – Nellie’s, 260 Main Street
• Dennis R. Darkeem (Bronx, NY) – Revive Wellness, 232 Main Street
• Jennifer Loiselle (Methuen, MA) – Laura and Company Hair Salon, 222 Main Street
• Bruce Orr (Beverly, MA) – Coastal Wave Salon, 220 Main Street
• Kirk Larsen (Hicksville, NY) – Local Colors, 121 Main Street
• Quest Nine (Lowell, MA) – Highliner Hotel, 108 Main Street
• Brian Murphy (Beverly, MA) – Imperial Insurance Agency, 1 Main Street, Unit 9

An interactive map of all mural locations is available here.

To celebrate the completion of the project, the City of Gloucester and the Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce will host an official ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, August 21, from 3:00PM to 4:00PM at Saluti, 272 Main Street. Following the ceremony, attendees are encouraged to walk Main Street and experience all eight murals.

The murals will also be featured during the Harbortown Cultural District’s second annual From the Deep festival on Saturday, November 7, from 11:00AM to 5:00PM, offering another opportunity for residents and visitors to explore the public art installation while enjoying the festival’s programming.

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Mayor Paul Lundberg
City of Gloucester

Fresh inventive tasty dishes that you won’t find anywhere else within a 20 mile radius.

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Rafted…

How Teaching Outside Produces Better Students

What: Author and educator, David Sobel, Professor Emeritus, Antioch University New England, will present: Bringing the Classroom Outdoors: How Nature-Based Education Improves Student Performance and Resilience
When: 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026
Where: Annisquam Village Hall, 34 Leonard St., Gloucester
Admission: Free

Registration Required: https://luma.com/wgn9jsv6.

David Sobel

Can taking students outside improve academic performance, build resilience, and foster a deeper connection to their communities? According to nationally recognized educator and author David Sobel, the answer is an absolute “yes!”

Environmental nonprofit 400 Trees,in collaboration with the Sawyer Free Library, will host a free community presentation led by Sobel: “Bringing the Classroom Outdoors: How Nature-Based Education Improves Student Performance and Resilience,” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27 at the Annisquam Village Hall, 34 Leonard St., Gloucester.

Sobel, Professor Emeritus in the Education Department at Antioch University New England, is one of the country’s leading voices on child development, nature-based learning, and place-based education. For more than 30 years, he has worked with schools, environmental organizations, and the National Park Service to help educators connect classroom learning with the natural and cultural resources found in their own communities.

During the presentation, Sobel will share research and real-world examples demonstrating how place-based education can enhance student achievement while nurturing curiosity, confidence, and resilience. Drawing on successful programs across the United States, he will illustrate how using local neighborhoods, landscapes, and community resources as living classrooms creates richer educational experiences for students of all ages.

Sobel has written ten books and more than 90 articles on children, nature, and education. His books include Beyond Ecophobia, Place-based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities, Childhood and Nature: Design Principles for Educators, and Wild Play: Parenting Adventures in the Great Outdoors. In 2007, Edutopia magazine recognized him as one of the nation’s “Daring Dozen” educational leaders for his innovative work in education.

This program is part of the ongoing Tree Talks lecture series produced by 400 Trees, a Gloucester-based nonprofit created to engage youth and plant trees. Tree Talks bring local and regional experts together to share knowledge about native trees, plants, and Gloucester’s ecosystem through educational programs. Educators, parents, school leaders, environmental advocates, and anyone interested in strengthening children’s connection to nature are encouraged to attend.

 

Advance registration is required at https://luma.com/wgn9jsv6.

For more information about 400 Trees, visit online at www.400treesma.org.

 

Happy August at Rose Baker. Summer heat and hope for some showers to help our dry earth. Daily activities can be found by going to www.gloucester-ma.gov, clicking on Departments and scrolling down to the Council on Aging. You can see our newsletter or call 978-325-5812 to get on our mailing list. For events indicating registration, please stop by or call Natalia at the above phone number. Follow us on Facebook – Rose Baker Senior Center Gloucester

Special things going on:

August 3^rd, 10^th and 17^th at 1:00 – Old Salties Jazz Band

August 11^th – New cribbage 20 week tournament begins. Sign up each week at 12:45, play at 1:00

August 11^th – 10:30 – Coffee with Elise – Please come and chat about your ideas and concerns.

August 12^th – 10:30 – Nutrition Education by SeniorCare’s Dietician/Nutritionist Shane Toman

August 27^th – 11:30 – SeniorCare Cookout at Stage Fort Park. Please register.

Movies on Thursdays at 12:30

August 6^th – Ocean Eleven with George Cluney, Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt

August 13^th – A Star is Born with Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson

August 20^th – Million Dollar Baby with Clint Eastman, Hillary Swank and Morgan Freeman

August 27^th – Two Weeks Notice  (This one starts at 1:30.) Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant

 

Seniors on the Go Bus – Please register.

August 10^th – Walmart and Century House

August 17^th – Salem Willows and The Anchor Grille

August 24^th – Job Lots and Savers then the Gourmet Garden

August 31^st – Tendercrop Farm and Shipyard Tavern

Group Luncheon and Entertainment

September 17^th – Danversport – Solid Gold’s Remember the 50’s and 60’s.

December 2^nd and 3^rd – Danversport – The Music and Passion of Barry ManilowCall Natalia for details and to register 978-325-5812

As you may know, Lanes Coven’s “As you Like it” is getting enthusiastic applause and standing ovations. Who knew that Shakespeare could be so popular! The show will be closing this coming weekend, on Sunday, August 2nd, so if you haven’t seen it yet, don’t delay. Here’s a link for tickets. It runs Thursday through Sunday at 7:00pm.Which brings us to August. There’s a saying among sailors in Maine about how to spend the month of August: “Start slow, then ease up.” Well, we didn’t follow their advice. That will have to wait until September. Because….This August there are six different dance companies coming to Windhover, who are giving nine (count -em, nine!) dance performances. That total includes two performances of the renowned Limon Dance Company (August 14 and 15), along with a free Open Rehearsal on Aug 15th), and three Quarry Dances (August 7, 8 and 9). The other companies include BoSoma, The Boston Dance Theater, Classical Indian Dance, and two contemporary NYC based modern dance companies (Alison Cook Beatty and Hollis & Nattie). Please check our website, Windhover.org, for tickets and details.

So if you are already a dance lover, this is your month! Please come to everything. And if you’re not yet a dance lover, this is the time to acquaint yourself with this most heartfelt and soulful of the performing arts. We promise it will lift your spirits and enrich your soul.  And there’s more.  We have two enticing music performances in August as well.  Stan Strickland and his quartet will be playing “The American Songbook Revisited” here on Sunday, August 16th, and Cape Ann’s own Reese Fulmer’s Carriage House Band performs on Sunday, August 23rd.  They’ll be playing their brand of traditional and indie folk music. See our website for more particulars. Lastly, please don’t forget that our end-of-Summer Gala Celebration is Tuesday, August 25, from 5:00 PM to … whenever.  We’ll have the amazing Stan Strickland playing music, and a solo dancer from the Paul Taylor company performing, plus plenty to eat and drink. With your presence, it will become an evening of celebration and community — a chance to gather, honor and support the actors, dancers and musicians that make Windhover come alive each summer.  Tickets are available here.A more personal note: Many of the local performing arts companies across the nation are struggling because of the lack of government funding and the overall state of the economy. We’d love to be able to provide opportunities to experience quality performing arts here on our magical campus for free. Thankfully, we do indeed offer the Quarry Dances at no cost. But Windhover cannot do what it does without your financial support.   So, if helping us continue our tradition of bringing soul-enriching art to life here on Cape Ann matters to you, please consider making a donation. Here’s the link.

With appreciation,Lisa Hahn, Windhover Executive Director Duncan Hollomon, Windhover Board Member

Your Donation is Welcome

We rely on community support and you to continue producing dance, drama, music and poetry at Windhover. Please consider donating to Windhover, a non-profit 501©3 organization by going to: www.windhover.org/donate All donations are tax deductible