Author: Marty Luster

I'm Marty Luster, a retired attorney and politician. In 2010 my wife, mother-in-law, dog and I relocated from Central NY to Gloucester. I hope my photographs and poetry(?) reflect my love for this place and her people. My picture-poem posts can be seen at http://matchedpairs.wordpress.com and selected black and white images can be found at http://slicesoflifeimages.wordpress.com

Schooner LETTIE G. HOWARD May be Looking for a New Home

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Former Gloucester Fishing Schooner Lettie G. Howard

Rumor has it that the Lettie G. Howard, the Essex built 1893
 schooner berthed at the Seaport Museum New York (formerly South Street Seaport Museum)) in New York City is for sale. The 125 foot Lettie G. operated from Gloucester during her first eight years
and spent many years plying the coastal waters of the Yucatan Penninsula. She was sold to the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1988, restored in 1993 and is certified as a training and working museum ship. She stopped running her east coast educational voyages in
2008.

Wouldn’t it be nice to bring the Lettie G. home to Gloucester as an addition to our growing fleet of historic educational vessels? 

 

Sailor Town

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I dreamed a dream in sailor town, a foolish dream and vain,

Of ships and men departed, of old days come again—

And an old song in sailor town, an old song to sing

When shipmate meets with shipmate in the evening.

 

C. Fox Smith

Sailor Town

 

Annisquam Light

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From : The Lighthouse
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The rocky ledge runs far into the sea,
and on its outer point, some miles away,
the lighthouse lifts its massive masonry,
A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day.

Even at this distance I can see the tides,
Upheaving, break unheard along its base,
A speechless wrath, that rises and subsides
in the white tip and tremor of the face.