My View of Life on the Dock
“Greet the Schooners”
Join us aboard Cape Ann Harbor Tours’ M/V King Eider on Friday August 31 at 12:30 pm for a 1.5 hour trip as we escort S/V Bluenose II and S/V Columbia when they sail into Gloucester Harbor all dressed out. You can’t miss this kick off event for the Gloucester Schooner Festival 2018!
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YOU’RE INVITED! BEYOND BEAUPORT MARITIME CELEBRATION AND BOOK PARTY
Wouldn’t it be great to see the Yankees get bumped out on the wildcard spot? Come on Oak-town, do your thing!
Two teams to root for right now- The Red Sox and Oakland.
Jude Abbe – Oil Impressionist – Plein Air Painter. Jude studied with Roger Curtis for several years, more recently working with many others, including Charles Movalli, Mary Minifie, David Curtis, Christopher Zhang, Jonatan McPhillips and T.M. Nicholas, to name a few. Using the impressionist palette, she paints, landscapes, portraits and occasionally still life. Her work has been exhibited in shows and galleries throughout New England and New York. Demonstration September 1 (2pm) Space is limited so we do suggest that you sign up early . . . 11 Pirates Lane • Gloucester MA 01930 • 978.283.1857 • http://www.nsarts.org
Join us for one more week of fun in the studio, for kids grades 1-5 at Cape Ann Art Haven, August 27-31. Classes run Monday-Friday, 9-12p.m.
King Whiting was the mystery fish!
From Maine Science Today-
So when you’re looking at a lobster, you’re looking through one layer of yellow pigment, one layer of blue pigment, and one layer of red pigment, which looks like a solid layer of muddy reddish-brown.
So what happened to make this particular lobster blue? In a lab you can make a lobster blue by not feeding it astaxanthin, in the wild it different colors are cause by genetic mutations. Lobsters can be blue, red (while still alive), yellow, and even split-colored. The chances of seeing some of these colors are very slim.
But it doesn’t matter what color it is when it’s alive — it will still turn bright red when cooked.
Here are the odds of catching a different colored lobster:
Read more: http://marinesciencetoday.com/2013/10/18/what-makes-a-lobster-worth-500/#ixzz5ONouWePe
Message in a bottle retrieved 8/15/18 by our Lobsterman Dave Jewell aboard the F/V Lady J. According to the note it says Flow Test Put Off 8/2/2018 off Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor. If found please contact Donald Cann 64 Union St Rockland MA. 02370. The bottle was retrieved off the Back Shore, Gloucester MA. If you know Donald Cann, let him know. If he included an email address it would have been fun to send him this video. Let’s try to find him online and tag him. I’ll keep the note inside at the dock.
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For our 10th annual event, the cook off will feature veteran competitors Common Crow and Feather and Wedge, represented by chefs Mike Duggan and Ryan McGovern respectively.
The challenge before them? To create a unique dish using a mystery locally caught seafood that will be revealed at the event.
Completed dishes shall be presented to a panel of judges who will score based on taste, use of the whole animal, presentation, and originality. Who will this year’s winner be?
PLUS
While the Throwdown chefs are hard at work, market goers will be able to feast on freshly prepared seafood dishes and learn about place-based consumption at the Eating with the Ecosystem 18-foot kitchen skiff. This seafood non-profit got their start in Rhode Island but aspires to become a voice for all New England commercial fishermen. Their five-anchor philosophy mirrors the same principles that the…
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From Bruce McDonald
BYRON BROOKS (b.1906 – 1978)- WWII veteran, Coast Guard. Artist active 1940s-70s. Gloucester resident. Born in Manchester. Buried Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Manchester, MA ©C Ryan, June 2018
Look for New Information about artist Byron Brooks and images of his work added here https://goo.gl/WPv1XT and on Good Morning Gloucester (GMG). Byron Brooks Homeward Bound, found displayed Addison Gilbert Hospital spring 2018:
Good Morning Gloucester readers shared comments and images of Byron Brooks paintings to help rediscover the artist and the man.
Arist Byron Brooks, untitled painting, ca.1961-65, private collection, New York
Artist Byron Brooks (untitled winter pastoral) oil on canvas, private collection D. Wolcott
Searching for artist! Byron Brooks? Part 1 November 2016
Searching for artist! Byron Brooks? query from Kate Foley posted November 2016 on Good Morning Gloucester generated comments about the artist and his work. I was inspired to piece together some of my primary research and the comments into an informal online catalogue. It’s very much a loose work in progress! Hope it helps people searching for information about the artist, and compels collectors to share additional images of his art. Just this week (6/27/18) another GMG reader commented that they acquired a Brooks painting in Tucson, AZ.
Byron Brooks gravesite, Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Manchester, Mass.
Byron Brooks is not listed in any artist biographical compilations. The index card sketch below mimics the format as IF he were listed in Who Was Who in American Art:
BROOKS, Byron[Painter] b. 1906, Manchester, Mass | d. 1978, Gloucester, MA.
Addresses: 12 Stage Fort Park Avenue and 2…
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In response to Searching for artist Byron Brooks (Part 1) and (Part 2), David Collins, a Good Morning Gloucester reader and amateur geneologist, was inspired to act. First he emailed a PDF family tree for artist, Byron Lloyd Brooks, and then shared vivid remembrances and vintage photographs in response to the artist’s timeline in Gloucester, Massachusetts. These are wonderful additions to filling out Brooks story and a peek into Gloucester history. Thanks so much, David!
For a time, Brooks lived in 12 Stage Fort Avenue. Collins’ family lived in 7 Stage Fort Avenue 1940s-1960s. Does anyone know the neighbors Collins mentions or have more photographs of long gone homes and Barrett’s Camp at Stage Fort Park? I’m looking forward to scouting for that boulder.
ca. 1950, courtesy photograph to assist with Byron Brooks research from David Collins (his…
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