Join us on Saturday, July 11th from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM as Main Street transforms into a massive celebration filled with local flavor. Bring the whole family down for an unforgettable night under the summer sky!
Here is what you can look forward to:
🎤 Live music across 3 separate street stages
🤸 Street performances from headline act The Red Trousers
💃 A special performance by the Cape Ann Dancers
🍔 Incredible food from local restaurants and food trucks
🎨 Face painting, local shopping, non-profit booths, and fun activities for all ages

📍 Where: Main Street (Closed to traffic from Pleasant St. to Washington St.)
🎟️ Admission: Completely FREE for the public!

Streets close for setup at 5:00 PM, and the fun starts at 6:00 PM. Tag your party crew in the comments and let us know what you’re hitting first! 👇

Get the full event timeline and details here: https://bit.ly/BlockParty-July11

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CAPE ANN COLLECTORS is curating new work by Theresa Bernstein with reproductions from Milton Avery’s catalog sketchbooks. Our summer show, Bernstein/Avery: Discovery Made Visible, opening Saturday and Sunday, July 18-19, 1-5 p.m., is a dazzling collection documenting an intriguing record of an earlier era in Gloucester. Both artists’ courageous spirits, attracting reverent admirers and mentees, are on view.

Theresa Bernstein (1890-2002) and Milton Avery (1886-1965) ran in the same modernist circles, summering in the same art colonies and gathering at Bernstein and husband William Meyerowitz’s home in East Gloucester – steps away from Good Harbor Beach. All three modernists walked away from abstraction, capturing an intimacy where realism and abstraction intersect – observed reality.

Bernstein sketched scenes quickly, preferring to fill in details for later works with faces of friends and family. Sketches exploded as she pursued contemporary urban life, human activity and movement. Avery filled sketchbooks daily, further developing “eye-and-hand” coordination while maintaining the immediacy of his subject. His reliance on sketches, often making quick notations of color, made art an inseparable part of daily life. Sally Michel Avery, Milton’s wife, commented that summers were “devoted to works on paper.”

Bernstein and Avery were passionately driven by both the natural world and the human figure – all in full view on Cape Ann. Avery/Bernstein Sketchbooks: Discovery Made Visible, opening July 18-19, is running Saturdays through August 8. Stop by to see for yourself – discoveries made visible!

Molly, Janet and Annie

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Ken Tashjy submits- First photo is of a jelly fish on Oak Cove on Rocky Neck. That is a 11.5 sneakers giving it some scale. Next photos are of artist Robert Gruppe painting at Oak Cove. “One of Gloucester’s Masters back at work.”

🦞 Lobster Roll – Just $19.99 + tax
Served with chips & pickles for the perfect summer meal!

🍕 Pizza Deal
Buy ANY 16” Pizza and get a second 16” Pizza for HALF PRICE! 🙌
Limit of One Pizza Special per Customer

⏰ Open Daily: 11 AM – 9 PM

Bring your family, grab your friends, or order dinner for the whole crew—we’ve got you covered!

Excludes gluten-free crusts.
Excludes online orders.

📍 See you at Surfside! 🌊🍕🦞

Last year, we made the mistake of waiting until the end of the season to have breakfast at the Oceanfront Cafe at the Atlantis on Atlantic Road. We promised ourselves we wouldn’t make that mistake again! A recent weekday morning provided a great opportunity to fulfill our promise to ourselves. It was kind of a bleak morning but inside the cafe was friendly and bright. Jim ordered fishcakes and I got the country breakfast (I really wanted that cheddar biscuit!). They were served up efficiently and were as delicious as I was expecting. It was a quiet morning there but clearly there were some regulars in attendance being fussed over by the amiable staff. We were seated by the front window, allowing us the benefit of the Oceanfront in the cafe’s name. We enjoyed our experience very much and expect to return sometime before October this year!

Bernie Cranston Rowing Past Captain Joe & Sons Lobster Co 7/7/23

Bernie Cranston Rowing A Dory Past Captain Joe and Sons 7/12/24