My View of Life on the Dock
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Thursday, January 16th
10:00 – 11:45 am
10:00 – 10:30 am: Coffee & light refreshments
10:30 – 11:30 am: Presentation
11:30 – 11:45 am: Q&A/Conclusion.
Join us for a detailed discussion of recent and ongoing restoration efforts at the Museum with contractor and mason Roger Tremblay and Director of Education & Visitor Services Caleb McMurphy. In the past few years, Tremblay, and his firm A+R Construction, have headed some of the most significant restoration projects in the Museum’s history, including the renovation of the Museum’s iconic 13th-century French monastery arches, originally situated in the Franciscan monastery of Couvent des Cordeliers, in Gers, France. In 2024, Tremblay’s team intervened to save a portion of the “towers” section of the building, modeled off of an 11th-century Norman keep, which had been badly damaged by winter weather.
Over the course of an hour, Roger and Caleb will discuss these and other ongoing and upcoming restoration projects, using photos taken during the work itself to give a look behind the curtain at just what it takes to maintain such a unique and historic building. After this, audience members will have a chance to ask questions of their own and get an opportunity to become involved with Hammond Castle Museum’s continuing mission to preserve John Hays Hammond Jr.’s legacy.
Member savings apply.
General Admission: $15
Proceeds from this program will support the restoration and preservation of the Hammond Castle Museum.
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Join the Castaways Crew to support special Olympics in the polar plunge this year! Plunge with us!! March 29th GHB
PLEASE DONATE TO CAPE ANN LIVE! TO DEFRAY OPERATING COSTS OF COVERING CAPE ANN SPORTS &
EVENTS. ANY AMOUNT IS APPRECIATED! THX!
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE
HERE IS A LINK
Sent by Gloucester Fishermen Athletics
The drawing is January 8th at the Pigeon Cove Circle with a complimentary Chili dinner. The proceeds of this event go to the building fund. Please support us. You can Venmo me if you wish. Also, you can pay by check or cash. Thank you!
Judith Harris
GLOUCESTER — Fire Chief Eric Smith is asking community members to call 911 in the event of an emergency and no longer use direct phone lines to reach the Gloucester Fire Department.
Chief Smith and the Gloucester Fire Department direct anyone reporting an emergency situation or fire to call 911. This is now the only number for requesting assistance and reporting emergencies.
“Everyone must dial 911 in the event of any emergency,” said Chief Smith. “Our 911 lines continue to fully function. 911 is the only number used in Gloucester for requesting assistance, reporting fires and calling in other emergencies.”
For any Gloucester businesses or city residents that has a monitored fire alarm system or a monitored medical alert system, please check with your alarm monitoring company to determine what number it uses to report emergencies in the City of Gloucester. If that number used by your alarm monitoring company ends with “2424,” then you and/or your alarm monitoring company must contact the Gloucester Fire Department to receive the new alarm reporting number. In order to make this change, please call the Gloucester Fire Department’s non-emergency business line at 978-325-5300 and select the option to speak to a fire officer.
I might ask the guys at Kings to do this for me when I get home.
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I’m not deleting this weekly alarm til I get to experience one.
Love going to this one and the one in Newport.
Please join the Sawyer Free Library on Thursday, January 9 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm for an Author Talk with Diane C. Bradley. The Boston-based author Diane C. Bradley will discuss The Summer Before, her gripping novel about trauma, guilt, and the resilience of friendship which explores the shattering impact of abuse and healing journey that follows.
All are invited, no registration required. The discussion will take place at the Sawyer Free Libraryat 21 Main Street in Gloucester. If you have questions, please contact: lsvensson@sawyerfreelibrary.orgor 978-325-5500.
About The Summer Before:
If the perpetrator is also someone you love, there are no words.
Madeline and Summer are more than best friends. They might as well be sisters; they’ve claimed the title, anyway-and sisters tell each other everything. But Summer has a secret she’s been hiding for years. Someone’s been hurting her, someone close, and when it comes out, it destroys everything around her with the force of dying stars.
Six years after the trial, Madeline is a haunted young woman trying to build a new life in Boston, but the guilt of her betrayal brings her to the brink of suicide. To let go of the past, Madeline must confront her father, mother, and all those involved with the trial that split her family apart-or continue her descent, finishing what she started to escape it.
About the Author:
A raw, gritty New Englander, Dianne C. Bradley, is a registered nurse and freelance writer. Dianne and her family, both human, furry, and feathered, are firmly planted in a small town north of Boston, not far enough away to lose her city edge. After falling in love with Martha’s Vineyard on a weekend visit as a girl, she returns every summer, reigniting her passion for writing in the magical place that inspired it.
I took this at White Beach in Manchester last evening.
Thought you might like to share this with your readers.
Ruth Goutal
17 Desmond Ave
Manchester
Kate and I stopped in to pick up a few books and the service couldn’t have been more friendly and accommodating.
Thank you
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As 2024 winds down, the Gloucester Education Foundation is celebrating a banner year of community support and dynamic programming benefitting the 2,862 students of the Gloucester Public Schools. We distributed over $500,000 in grants to support 24 different programs in GPS this year! Thank you to everyone – students, educators, administrators, volunteers, board members, families, and especially our generous donors – for your work to strengthen teaching and learning in our local schools. Here’s to a great 2025!
Good Morning Gloucester 