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The Silva family have recently been dealt a horrible blow. A fire at their family home recently and then a robbery at their local business. Thankfully everyone is safe but they need help. Yellow sub has been a staple in this community for years and the Silva family have always stepped up for others in times of need. Now it’s our turn to help them. Friday, July 15th, we are suggesting a $5 cover to see DJ Vito perform at 9pm. The money raised at the door will entirely go to the Silva family. A link will be provided for those who would like to contribute to their go fund me. Thank you ✌️
The Rockport Legion Band will perform the second free concert of our 88th summer concert series at the Back Beach Bandstand, Beach St, Rockport, MA.
July 17, 2022, 7:00 to 8:30
Teddy Bear’s Picnic
The best popcorn in Massachusetts is here! Children are especially welcome. Folding chairs and blankets are good.
Bob Rick, Conductor and Music Director
Children under 12 with a teddy bear or favorite stuffed animal will get a free box of popcorn.
“This program is supported in part by a grant from the Rockport Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.”
Our program is below.
Piece
Composer/Arranger
National Anthem
Henry Fillmore
The Automatic Chromatic Lots of Fun Warmin’ up Blues*
Andy Clark
Captain America March
Alan Silvestri, Arr. Michael Brown
What’s Up at the Symphony*
Jerry Brubaker
How to Train Your Dragon*
Sean O’Loughlin
Old MacDonald had a Farm*
Leroy Anderson & Jason Scott
March of the Trolls
Edvard Grieg, arr. Beck
Colors of the Wind*
Alan Menken/Paul Lavender
Teddie Bear Picnic
John W. Bratton
The Lion King
Arr. John Higgins
Elephant and the Flea
Ralph Maria Siegel, arr. A. Eric Heukeshoven
Beauty & the Beast*
Alan Menkin/arr. Jay Bocook
The Bare Necessities*
arr. Paul Murtha
Aladdin (Medley)
arr. Paul Jennings
Highlights from Brave
arr. Sean O’Loughlin
The Addams Family (Theme)
arr. Johnnie Vinson
God Bless America
Irving Berlin/ Arr. John Higgins
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Gloucester, MA—The Sawyer Free Library is proud to welcome Carnegie Medal-winning and New York Times bestselling author Eric Klinenberg this week. NYU’s Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge and a professor of sociology, Klinenberg will discuss how social infrastructure like the modern public library creates lasting and powerful connections where shared values and experiences build community consensus. Presented jointly by the library and the Sawyer Library Foundation (sawyerfree2025.org), the author will deliver remarks and conduct a dialogue with the audience from 6 to 7pm on Thursday July 14.
“Professor Klinenberg’s research raises concerns about historic inattention to preserving and updating free and equitable public spaces, and his recommendations for counteracting this align perfectly with Sawyer Free Library’s 2025 plan to modernize and expand,” said Library Director Jenny Benedict, noting that the event is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a dessert reception at the library’s outdoor amphitheater. “Our library has a broader reach than any other single organization in the community. The new space will foster personal connections, mutual support and collaboration among friends and neighbors across Cape Ann. It creates a dynamic, welcoming and modernized environment that will inspire generations of life-long learners in our community.”
Klinenberg’s most recent book, “Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization and the Decline of Civic Life” (Crown, 2018), will inform his remarks Thursday evening. Drawing on extensive original research, he suggests that ‘social infrastructure,’ which he defines as the physical spaces that shape our interactions, plays an essential but unappreciated role in modern societies by helping to redress inequalities in health, education, crime, climate vulnerability and social networks.
Klinenberg suggests that just as urban green space, schools, community centers, civic spaces and nonsecular organizations are places where lasting and powerful connections are formed, so too do modern public libraries represent a crucial swatch of this social fabric. In this public remarks, he will offer a blueprint for rebuilding in this moment of societal polarization and explore how, while America appears fractured at the national level, it can be mended locally.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden called Klinenberg’s work, “One of my favorite books of 2018… (the author) is echoing what librarians and library patrons have been saying for years: that libraries are equalizers and absolutely universal.”
The author of three other books and co-author, with Aziz Ansari, of the New York Times No. 1 bestseller “Modern Romance” (The Penguin Press, 2015), Klinenberg’s scholarly work has been published in journals including the “American Sociological Review,” “Theory and Society” and “Ethnography.” He has contributed to “The New Yorker,” “The New York Times Magazine,” “Rolling Stone” and National Public Radio’s “This American Life.” Klinenberg is currently working on a new book entitled “2020: A Social Autopsy.”
To register for this event, please visit: bit.ly/3nRWVn0.
SFL_ProgrammingMultigenerational: During his visit to Sawyer Free Library this Thursday evening (July 14) from 6 to 7pm, best-selling author and professor Eric Klinenberg will make the case for why, in a highly impersonal and socially distanced age, social infrastructure like the modern public library creates lasting and powerful connections—like the gathering pictured above—where shared values and experiences build community consensus.
KLINENBERG PORTRAIT: Author Eric Klinenberg’s remarks at Sawyer Free Library this week will be followed by a dessert reception at the library’s outdoor amphitheater.
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It’s Official… “Food Truck Tuesdays” starts this week- we’ve got an incredible group of vendors for July – we can’t wait to see you! 4pm Tuesdays at 23 Harbor Loop. Our Maritime Museum and Sea Pocket Aquarium will also be open until 7pm. LobsterRollerThe Whoo(pie) WagonCrêpe du JourMeat and Sweet Foods
Join maritime researcher, Jon Johansen for an evening discussion on “Shipwrecks of New England” at the Sawyer Free Library on Tuesday, July 14 from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
The only easy mode of transportation back in the 1800’s and up until the advent of the automobile and truck was sailing and steam vessels that plied the coast and oceans of the world. Traveling at that time could be dangerous as many of these vessels came to grief along the shores of New England, New York and the Canadian Maritimes. This lecture will cover some of the major disasters starting with the loss of SPARROWHAWK at Orleans, MA in 1626 right up to the loss of the submarine U.S.S. THRESHER off Cape Cod in 1963. Some of the others include: ROYAL TAR (1836), LEXINGTON (1840), ARCTIC (1854), ATLANTIC (1873), CITY OF COLUMBUS (1884), PORTLAND (1898), GENERAL SLOCUM (1904), LARCHMONT…
The Manchester-Essex Rotary Club is pleased to announce the 2022 “Service Above Self” scholarships. Scholarships are awarded to students demonstrating leadership, integrity, and academic success. Graduating high school seniors must either attend Manchester-Essex Regional High School or have parent(s) or legal guardian(s) residing in Manchester or Essex, Massachusetts. Students must be enrolling in a certificate or degree-granting program in the fall of 2022.
Congratulations to this years’ recipients who are both attending Suffolk University in Boston.
Jacob Brown will be studying Business and Law
Isabella Thurlow will be studying Psychology, Criminal Justice and Law
The Manchester-Essex Rotary Club is grateful to our members and community for your support of our fundraising events. The monies raised are used to support these scholarships and many other projects to benefit our community and those in need.
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What a great weekend. Checks off all my vacation boxes- Beach community, Walking distance to a bunch of great restaurants and cafes, beautiful decor, steps to beach.
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