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Join the Sawyer Free Library on Tuesday, September 10 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm for a moving virtual chat with New York Times bestselling author Garrett Graft, an expert at capturing the human drama. Graff will speak about his body of work with particular focus on his oral histories, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 and When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day. Graff’s work, filled with impressive detail, captures a human drama and history like no other.
This is a virtual event; for the link, register at sawyerfreelibrary.org. If you have questions contact moneill@sawyerfreelibrary.org or 978-325-5500.
Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
CAM Green’s bucolic campus to host expanded Museum programming & six exhibitions from Oct. 2024 to Spring 2026
Free admission, timed tickets & expanded hours aimed to draw more visitors to campus with three historic buildings and contemporary gallery, beginning Oct. 11
Umberto Romano (1905-1982). Still Life, undated. Oil on canvas. Gift of The Umberto Romano and Clorinda Romano Foundation, 2016 [Accession # 2016.087.025]
GLOUCESTER, MASS. (September 2024) – The Cape Ann Museum’sCAM Green campus, will soon host a robust offering of exhibitions and programs starting in mid- October and extending throughout 2025. This shift to year-round access, programs and exhibitions at CAM Green will include expanded weekly hours, free admission, and timed ticketing to welcome more visitors to experience the space while the Museum’s Downtown campus on Pleasant Street closes for extensive renovations.
Beginning Oct. 11 through Spring 2026, CAM Green will become the Museum’s main base of operations. Admission to CAM Green, which opened in September 2020 and is located off Poplar Street in Gloucester, is always free. To accommodate more visitors with parking and gallery access, timed entry tickets are required and will be available by registering on the Cape Ann Museum website. Museum Hours at CAM Green will be expanded to Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“Throughout the pandemic and now as we renovate the Downtown Campus, CAM Green has been a sanctuary, a respite, and a vibrant location for our programming, exhibitions, and a venue for outdoor public art such as the contemporary art wetu celebrating Indigenous history on Cape Ann,” said Museum Director Oliver Barker. “There is a flexibility and vitality to the CAM Green campus which pulls together a large green open space, three historic buildings and a contemporary gallery as part of the Janet & William Ellery James Center”. Barker further shared that, “…for nearly 150 years, the Cape Ann Museum has created opportunities for people to explore, build community, be challenged, and inspired through discovery and learning. The Museum is excited to continue this commitment and engage the community at CAM Green.”
Next year, in addition to spearheading the organization of now signature community offerings such as Gloucester’s So Salty (Jan. 25-26, 2025); Gloucester Juneteeth Festival (June 14, 2025); and Brazilian Independence Celebrations (Aug. 24, 2025) the Museum will utilize the CAM Green campus for other signature events such as Indigenous Heritage Day (July 19, 2025) and an Outdoor Cape Ann Student exhibition (April 12- June 29, 2025).
Within the James Center at CAM Green, the Museum will launch a series of mission driven exhibitions celebrating the art, history and culture of Cape Ann as a singularly unique place. Details of the exhibitions planned from October 2024 through Spring 2026 are outlined below.
2024 exhibit at the James Center:
Umberto Romano
October 11 – December 29, 2024
While Cape Ann’s art colony of the mid-20th century was best known for the traditional seascapes and landscapes created by artists such as Emile Gruppé, Frederick Mulhaupt and W. Lester Stevens, there was a group of more progressive men and women working in the area at the time and foremost among them for nearly 20 years was Umberto Romano (1905-1982).
A painter, printmaker and sculptor, Romano came to Gloucester in 1932 to paint. He was soon conducting classes on Rocky Neck and in 1938 he opened the Romano School of Art on Ledge Road in East Gloucester. Romano’s style shifted continuously throughout his career but his passion for exploring the human condition is a thread that runs throughout his work. The Cape Ann Museum is fortunate to have an extensive collection of his works on canvas and on paper, as well as archival materials, all of which will be the focus of this special exhibition. Romano’s skill as a teacher was renowned and will be honored through a robust offering of studio classes for all ages in painting and drawing during the course of the exhibition.
Walker Hancock was one of the premier American sculptors of the 20th century and a highly engaged and respected member of the Cape Ann community. Michael Lafferty is a skilled photographer who spent hours photographing Hancock in his Lanesville studio, creating a series of intimate portraits of the sculptor at work. This exhibit will combine the work of Lafferty and Hancock.
Breath of Life: The Circle of Fisk Organ. April 12 – June 29, 2025
Music has been—and continues to be—an important part of life on Cape Ann. This display will explore the intersection of music and art by focusing on Gloucester based C. B. Fisk Organ makers and some of the artists who worked with them over the decades to create and manufacture organs for institutions around the world.
Under Sail: The World of Photographer Ernest L. Blatchford. July 12 – September 28, 2025
Gloucester’s great age of fishing under sail was captured in stunning photographs by Ernest L. Blatchford (1871-1947) during the late 1890s and early 1900s. As the long-time manager of the New England Fish Company on Duncan’s Point, Blatchford had a front row seat to Gloucester’s busy working waterfront while his involvement in the Cape Ann Camera Club allowed him to hone his skills as a photographer. Blatchford’s images will be accompanied by select objects from the Museum’s maritime collection, including some of our finest models of Gloucester’s famed fishing schooners.
Hammers on Stone – The Granite Industry & Cape Ann. October 11 – December 28, 2025
From 1830 to 1930, the granite quarrying industry had a profound impact on Cape Ann’s economy, providing jobs, generating revenue and helping to lay the foundations upon which this nation grew. The industry also exerted strong influences on Cape Ann’s cultural scene resultant from immigrants flooding into the community to work stone. Objects and archival materials from the Museum’s granite-related collection will spotlight this important industry and its enduring legacy.
A contemporary art exhibition, Cape Ann Now!, is also being planned for early 2026.
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The Cape Ann Museum, founded in 1875, exists to preserve and celebrate the history and culture of the area and to keep it relevant to today’s audiences. Spanning 44,000 square feet, the Museum’s Downtown campus is one of the major cultural institutions on Boston’s North Shore welcoming thousands of local, national, and international visitors annually to its exhibitions, programs and community led events. In addition to fine art, the Museum’s collections include decorative art, textiles, artifacts from the fisheries and granite industries, four historic structures, a Library & Archives and a sculpture park in the heart of downtown Gloucester. In Summer 2021, the Museum opened the 12,000 square foot Janet & William Ellery James Center at the Cape Ann Museum Green. This campus is located on the site at the intersection of Washington and Poplar Streets in Gloucester and will be open year-round beginning in October 2024.
The Cape Ann Museum’s Downtown campus is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester and is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. General admission is $15.00 adults, $12.00 Cape Ann residents, seniors, and students. Youth (under 18) and Museum members are free. Cape Ann residents can visit for free on the first Friday (from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.) and second Saturday (10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) of each month. More information can be found on www.capeannmuseum.org or please call (978)283-0455 x110.
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September is Hunger Action Month™, an annual, nationwide campaign by the Feeding America network to raise awareness and encourage action to reduce food insecurity.
The Open Door served 957 MORE people and had 4,452 MORE household visits in the first six months of 2024 than the same period in 2023. That means more people are visiting the nonprofit, more often.
Want to help raise hunger awareness and keep local people fed? Learn more below about the opportunities on Cape Ann to participate:
Donate to support programs of The Open Door at FOODPANTRY.org.
Volunteer with The Open Door! Packing groceries, delivering meals, sorting food or sorting donations at Second Glance, and corporate engagement opportunities are just a few of the many roles available to volunteers. Learn more at FOODPANTRY.org/volunteer.
Wear orange. Orange is the color of hunger awareness.
Enjoy a sweet treat:
Brothers Brew in Rockport will offer a vanilla donut frosted with orange sprinkles starting Sept. 8 for Hunger Action Month
Cake Ann will offer special creamsicle and chocolate orange flavored cupcakes to help raise hunger awareness starting Sept. 1
The Cut will offer a Hunger Action Month cocktail
Holy Cow’s Gloucester location on Pleasant Street will serve an Orange Creamsicle flavored ice cream
Turtle Alley will offer chocolate bars embossed with the word “LOVE”
A portion of proceeds will support local hunger-relief programs of The Open Door!
Watch out for Hunger Action Month themed coasters at 1606 Restaurant & Oyster Bar, the Seaport Grille, and The Cut to donate!
See Gloucester City Hall and the Beauport Hotel lit up with orange lights.
Get tickets for The Open Door Thrift the Runway Fashion Show by Second Glance, the thrift store of The Open Door at The Cut on Sunday, Sept. 8. Visit FOODPANTRY.org to learn more.
Gloucester Mayor Greg Verga will issue a proclamation naming September Hunger Action Month™ at the Thrift the Runway Fashion Show on Sunday, Sept.8.
The Gloucester City Council will also wear orange Hunger Action Month ™ t-shirts to help raise awareness at their Tuesday, Sept. 10 meeting.
SHOP and DONATE at Second Glance year-round. Revenue at the store raises funds for hunger-relief programs of The Open Door. Free referrals are also given to the community for those in need.
Learn more about Hunger Action Month™ at FOODPANTRY.org.
Pat writes: I probably should have expected that the store hours would change this week and they have. The store at 44 Main St will be open Thursday Sept 5
from 1-4 pm; Friday Sept 6 11-4 pm;
Saturday Sept 7 1-5 pm and Sunday Sept 8
11-3. If you need me to meet you there at a different time, give a shout. In partnership with #thirstyseagull Gloucester Apparel.
PS is this image notecard worthy?
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Gloucester Fire Department Extinguishes Structure Fire
GLOUCESTER — Fire Chief Eric Smith reports that the Gloucester Fire Department extinguished a structure fire on Wednesday morning. On Wednesday, Sept. 4, at approximately 11 a.m., the Gloucester Fire Department was called to 3 State Fish Pier for a report of a possible fire. Companies arrived to find a fire in an approximately 5,857-square-foot factory building that is equipped with sprinklers. Companies attacked and quickly knocked down a fire in the insulation of a wall. The fire was under control by about 11:12 a.m. There were no reported injuries. The company, Cape Seafoods, Inc., was able to remain open for business after firefighters conducted extensive ventilation of the building. The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Gloucester Fire Department.
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