The symposium features major American museum present and former curators and directors: Elliot Bostwick Davis, Kathleen A. Foster, Joachim Homann, Gail Levin, Virginia Mecklenberg, and Adam Weinberg. Several have compiled and published more than one renowned Hopper survey! On this weekend in September they’ll be focused on Edward Hopper in Gloucester!
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 Edward Hopper’s American Things, 6:00 p.m with Erika Doss, art historian and author of American Art of the 20th – 21st Centuries (2017), and Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (2022)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023, 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Edward Hopper and Jo N. Hopper on Cape Ann: “Beauty in the Commonplaceness”, 10:00 a.m. with Elliot Bostwick Davis, Guest Curator, Edward Hopper & Cape Ann
Managing an Artist’s Legacy within Museums: Edward Hopper & Fitz Henry Lane, 11:00 a.m. with Oliver Barker, CAM Director and Guests *Adam Weinberg
AFTERNOON BREAK, LUNCH PROVIDED, 12:00 P.M.
The Hoppers, Bernstein, and Meyerowitz, 1:00 p.m. with Gail Levin, Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York
American Watercolors: A Panel Discussion, 2:00 p.m. with Virginia Mecklenberg, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Kathleen A Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Joachim Homann, Harvard Art Museums
Closing Panel, 3:00 p.m.
Visit the Edward Hopper & Cape Ann exhibition, 4:00 p.m.
*Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director Whitney Museum of American Art from 2003- 2023. Several of the experts will have deep Massachusetts connections and experience. Before helming the Whitney, Weinberg was a long time curator here and abroad and Dir of the Addison at Phillips Academy in Andover 1999-2003.
Harvard is featuring a large American watercolor showInto the Light focused on drawings from its repository curated by Joachim Homann who is a featured panelist in Gloucester’s Edward Hopper symposium. Naturally art inspired by Gloucester make the list; Jane Peterson, Winslow Homer, Stuart Davis and more. The Truro Edward Hopper works are a great opportunity to compare drawings from both Capes in state at the same time.
video ftg. Hopper for American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light May 20, 2023–August 13, 2023.
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Along with (years of) Good Morning Gloucester Fiesta chronicles…don’t miss today’s newspaper!
GDT Sports writer Nick Curcuru delves into the hanging chad flag incidents, detailing relative context and history from years of on the ground coverage, matched with Paul Bilodeau’s signature photographs.
“…It turns out the only thing that can stop Hopkins from bringing the flag down is a flag that is fastened extra tight on the edge of the pole.”
Ethan Forman’s front page coverage about the 2023 St. Peter’s Fiesta procession was beautiful as well: “Fiesta Sunday celebrates faith, family and food”. June 26, 2023, which threaded interviews to illustrate the day, including Romeo-Theken’s:
“This day is a day of being thankful,” said former Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken. “Being thankful we have a fishing fleet; being thankful that this past year there was no loss at sea, no casualties. We are thankful that we still have our family and our faith and yet you can do it being festive,” she said of St. Peter’s Fiesta. “Everyone’s united for one day. It’s beautiful.”
“…The Mass was led by the Rev. Jim Achadinha, pastor of the Catholic Community of Gloucester and Rockport, and celebrated by the Rev. Tony Luongo, parochial vicar at Ave Maria Parish in Lynnfield.
Luongo said he got a call from Achadinha about a month ago after he found out Luongo’s mother came from Sicily.
“He said, ‘Father Tony, would you like to say the Mass,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I would love to’,” Luongo said. Achadinha asked him to take part in the procession and the Blessing of the Fleet.
“And then you know what he asked me? ‘We have the walking of the Greasy Pole’,” Luongo said to laughs. “Absolutely not!”
Gloucester, Mass. photo block: St. Peter’s Fiesta procession and people watching the parade June 25, 2023. Procession reached Prospect & Dale junction about 1:30.
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Players were unbothered by the dramatic weather during both games. Martha’s Vineyard and Stoneham beat CAU at MTOC. CAU ends season ECYSA MTOC 1 Champions. Great run! Thank you Jim and Pat for coaching this season so CAU could compete.
Thank you Jim Sperry, FYS, and GHS for years and years of dedication and support so these teams can play and build years of memorable experiences on and off the field!
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“While Marciano has one eye on the future of the industry, his real attention associated with what he’s doing in the present, and he mentioned that being part of Wicked Tuna has been an opportunity of a lifetime.”
One month away- mark your calendars! Countdown to Cape Ann Symphony’s very own Pops concert–a preeminent 400+ celebration– at Stage Fort Park is July 28, 2023. Classical and popular music for all in a spectacular setting!
For Gloucester’s Tablet Rock dedication in 1907, momentous Gloucester Day celebrations, and the city’s 300th, the natural open air ampitheatre of Stage Fort Park and its sweeping vistas beckoned and accomodated thousands for sheer casual delight, open and accessible to all. The Cape Ann Symphony Pops in the Park event echoes this history! On a smaller scale, the city hosts the popular free Antonio Gentile Bandstand Summer Concert Series at Stage Fort Park.
20161907201719071909Stage Fort Fisherman’s Field plaque honoring all actions. My attribution is Harriet Hyatt_plaque refers to restoration of area 1930 by DAR
Heidi Dallin shares the details from Cape Ann Symphony:
CAPE ANN SYMPHONY RETURNS TO STAGE FORT PARK
Celebrate Gloucester’s 400+ at
POPS IN THE PARK
FREE ORCHESTRA CONCERT SET FOR JULY 28 at 8 PM
Cape Ann Symphony has partnered with the Gloucester 400+ to bring Cape Ann’s 70-member professional orchestra to Stage Fort Park for Pops in The Park, a special concert to celebrate Gloucester’s 400+, on Friday, July 28 at 8 PM.
“Over the last 6 months we’ve been raising the funds needed to put the symphony on stage and I am delighted to share that we just reached our goal. We are so appreciative of our corporate sponsors and all the individual donors who contributed to make this marquee event of the 400th celebration a reality! So, save the date of July 28th on your calendar and come join us at Pops in the Park, a glorious evening of symphonic music free to the public.”
Jodi Nedrow-Counihan, CAS board member and coordinator of the Pops event
Set against the majestic backdrop of Gloucester Harbor, this FREE outdoor all ages event will be a special evening of music. The program includes Rossini’s Barber of Seville Overture; Anderson’s Selections from Irish Suite; Copland’s Hoedown; William’s Adventures on Earth; A Tribute to Henry Mancini; Tchaikovsky’s Finale of The 1812 Overture and the world premiere of Celebration Overture by acclaimed Gloucester composer Robert J Bradshaw.
“The Pops in the Park Concert on July 28th is a celebration not only of the 400+ years of Gloucester history but of the 70+ years of the Cape Ann Symphony” adds Nedrow-Counihan. The Cape Ann Symphony began in 1952 as a volunteer group of thirty or so individuals calling themselves the “Gloucester Civic Symphony Orchestra”. On July 10th, 1952 the symphony performed their inaugural concert in the Gloucester High School auditorium and wowed the audience of over 800 concertgoers with their performance of Beethoven’s First Symphony.
Today, the Cape Ann Symphony has evolved into an all-professional orchestra of more than 70 members from throughout the New England area with a performance level to rival any regional Symphony in the country. For more than 20 years Maestro Yoichi Udagawa has been the CAS Music Director and Conductor and his artistry and passion have made him an audience favorite. Maestro Udagawa is at home in popular and contemporary music as well as the standard symphonic repertoire. He is known for his relaxed manner and ability to speak from the podium which has helped new audiences as well as enthusiasts gain a greater appreciation for symphonic music.
The Cape Ann Symphony’s Pops in the Park Concert, a preeminent event to celebrate Gloucester’s 400+, is Friday, July 28, 2023 at 8:00 pm in Stage Fort Park, 24 Hough Avenue, Gloucester, MA. Admission to this outdoor concert on the harbor is FREE. For information, call 978-281-0543 or visit pops.capeannsymphony.org
aBOUT Stage Fort Park Tablet Rock
*“In 1623, 14 English fishermen set up the first European colony on Cape Ann here in what was then Fisherman’s Field and is now Stage Fort Park. These ramparts overlook the harbor, first built during the Revolutionary War, renewed for the War of 1812, the Civil War and the Spanish American War.”
Alas, those first settlers, sent across the ocean by the Dorchester Company, were unable to live off the sea and these rock-bound fields. They moved a few miles south to what is now Salem in 1626. Then, within a decade, there were enough permanent settlers on Cape Ann to incorporate the town of Gloucester. The first meetinghouse was built on the Town Green in 1642 near what is now the Grant Circle rotary of Route 128. The City set this land aside as a public park in 1898 and its Tablet Rock was dedicated by Henry Cabot Lodge in 1907.“
James R. Pringle was designated to write the inscription for the bronze plaque. The execution of the design was by Eric Pape. “The nautical scheme of decorative framework and embellishment was the composite suggestion” of various committees dating as far back as the 1880s. Bronze tribute plaques embedded in Tablet Rock at Stage Fort Park detail the site’s history and were commissioned and unveiled at different times. The monumental and stunning Founders plaque from 1907 on Tablet Rock itself is in fantastic condition. Two DAR plaques were inlaid on the glacial outcroppings past half moon beach on the way to the cannons. The Fisherman’s Field (1934) which I attributed to Harriet Hyatt is so worn it’s nearly indecipherable, though that’s part of its charm**. The plaque compels close inspection, lingering and discovery. It’s a fun family activity for anyone who likes a challenge. For those who want help reading the content, I transcribed it back in 2010. Harriet Hyatt designed the Meeting House Plain plaque across from Cape Ann near Washington and Poplar. – 2015, 2027 **Update 2020: Cape Ann Museum acquired the original drawing for the plaque design in 2020!
Update from Day 1 MTOC State Tournament. Soccer fields at Progin Park Lancaster
Friday June 23, 2023
These tournament games are quick–each half is only 25 minutes–so they can be unforgiving. Not this one.
Cape Ann United’s first goal came swift and easy. Andrew Coelho was fouled by the keeper in the box resulting in a penalty kick. (From a distance it looked there was a yellow card.)
video clip goal 1
For the second goal. Charles stole on a transition & passed back to Brendan Anderton who lofted a sweet perfect assist to Dominic Paone for a great header to finish and pull ahead 2:0.
video clip goal 2
Scituate sniped from 40 yards out (it seemed long!) to stave a shut out, but it’s unlikely they’d have broken through CAU’s defense which maintained possession both halves. There were several shots on their goal.
Players didn’t stick around after the win. Afterall, they’re traveling back and forth to Gloucester since it’s Fiesta!
Two games tomorrow: Martha’s Vineyard then Stoneham. If those go well, Cape Ann United moves on to the semis and finals Sunday. This team is aiming for another State Championship.
Photos and video clips: Winning goals and snapshots of ECYS Champion Cape Ann United team vs. Scituate, June 23, 2023. Field 1. MTOC State Tournament. Boys 11 & 12PG
If you stop to think about how many projects Gloucester’s DPW is pulled into that they may not have spearheaded but must deliver and complete, all the while doing their essentials, it’s no wonder other Public Works look at what Gloucester’s DPW provide and think they do a model job.
For permanent infrastructural projects (see Stacy Boulevard series) it’s evident that form and beauty are taken into consideration as much as possible.
There’s a lot more green in the GHS Flood Control Project 2023 since the last photographs I posted a month ago. More plantings and landscaping coming will add even more appeal. New trees were laid this week.
“Construction went smoothly. With permanent infrastructure it’s tricky to balance form over function. Form is so, so important! To me. To the City. To the residents. I always try to strike a balance.”
Mike Hale, Dir. DPW, Gloucester, MA
Diagonals and lines are incorporated into the landscape elements and the zig zag, tapered wall itself which is wide enough–by design for its purpose–and that someone climbing, sitting, or walking on top is not hurt. Final rounds of hydro seeding should be finished by Friday. Crews are working on “small stuff and finishing touches”. Removal of equipment like the mini excavator are scheduled for Monday.
At this stage in the project, the grassy walk is wide and welcoming and the Annsiquam humming with activity. Two geese sauntered past unbothered. Maintaining public space and green additions are evident. The old preschool at the highschool’s playground equipment is enhanced and feels upgraded to a waterfront walk and park that’s as fun to visit as Cripple Cove. With 1000 less enrolled at GPS there’s ample room at GHS for relocating the preschool and school administration from Blackburn back into the highschool. There might even be room for the Pond Road or other city offices. They can make use of an enhanced amenity. When this community space opens there’s a full circle longer walk option around the school: from Dun Fudgin/Emerson, back of school, bit of Centennial to the riverwalk.
The public can resume access to the riverwalk along the ‘squam between the Cut and Dun fudgin’ next week. There are three ways to walk on: 1)to the right of the bridge tender from Stacy Boulevard, 2)from the high school (by the softball field), and 3)Dun Fudgin’. The bridge tender is city property; they lease it from the city. If you check out the progress before Tuesday, you can see the temporary fences and locked gates which will be removed.
photo caption: Temporary fencing. Gates ajar Tuesday. This photograph shows the intentional natural planting for an earlier GHS flood mitigation project. Could sustainable planting partial strip like this continue along the back of the new wall (where the public is not meant to walk)? see next photo
Aerial View from Edward Hopper
image: Edward Hopper House on ‘Squam River, 1926. The Hopper drawing was gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1948. I thought about Hopper’s use of abbreviated ‘Squam and this vista for this post.
FAST STATS for the GHS Flood Control 2023
**Managed and partially funded by City of Gloucester, DPW**
Managed: City of Gloucester DPW
Engineers: GZA GEO Environmental, Amesbury
Contractor: Charter Contracting Boston
Status: nearly across the finish line. Progress: as of June 21, 2023 completion ETA is Monday June 26, 2023. Gates open Tues. Project start (historic): pre 1900 Modern project start: on the ground January 2023
Funding Awarded by:
from State: TBD Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs; FEMA; Mass Emergency Management Agency
from City: TBD partially funded plus in kind by DPW
Funding in place as of: TBD
Gloucester grants over the years in this vicinity include: emergency work on Blynman collapse; earlier GHS storm water project; Newell Stadium New Balance Field special surface;
Bid Open and contract amount:3.244M Contract completion: 2023 Locations: Along ‘Squam length between cut bridge and dun fudgin Priority: 1,439 linear feet of flood wall necessity, for safety and continued investment along an area the city has developed since the landfill late 1800s, and longer related to the Cut. Infrastructure project with quality of life benefits for residents and visitors. Rather than traditional loud pneumatic pile driving, special drive sheets were fabricated to offset the noise (essentially vibratory) Temporary work site chain link fence: Required. The chain link fence is installed by the contractor to protect the work zone and define it better. Will be removed as soon as possible.
HIGH RES PLANS
High Res plans here
Wastewater Treatment Facility
Directly across the river, construction for another wall encircling the city’s wastewater treatment facility is nearly finished. That project includes deployable gates for overflow.
The city’s investments in infrastructure is not new nor its evergreen commitment to improvements.
Fiscal year 2023 the City’s proposed budget is 133.9M. The DPW budget is about 32.1M million. For comparison, the school budget is about 50M*, 60% more. If we want more services or faster, money is another piece of the form vs. function balancing act.
*50M base number excludes: facilities rental for preschool/admin at Blackburn, etc.; school choice out tuition costs; Essex Tech expenditure; new school project; and special budget supplemental request/loan orders (e.g. school portion of 2.15M IT)
MORE Greenhead trap boxes
DPW did not install the greenhead boxes in Gloucester. In the photos above you can see greenhead boxes added to the salt marsh here as well as the new ones behind Good Harbor Beach. The Commonwealth’s Northeast MA Mosquito Control installed 58 traps. Last year it was 20. There’s a history of mosquito AND greenhead control combined action plans by the state which I wrote about here when I saw the new Good Harbor ones. I will add to that list an article by Ethan Forman who wrote about Essex and Wingaersheek and the city considering reenrolling. See Gloucester Daily Times here. That article mentions board of health asking city council for greenlight for the greenheads (each box about $90 a piece and a 3 year contract).
I will try to find a map or list of site locations. In the recent past I remember them in the marsh behind Lobsta Land. Apparently there were a fleet of them in the 1980s. Do you remember seeing them in more places at that time or were you involved back then? I’d love to learn about any tallies and sites and compare with 2023.
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Player-Coach Aidan. Post game hype. Cape Ann United ECYSA champions 2023
Congratulations boys! Current and former Gloucester High School (GHS) Fishermen Athletic players have been here and played together before, some since early Fishermen Youth Soccer days.
Results of the Essex County Youth Soccer weekend regional playoffs at Pingree 2023 for Cape Ann United boys soccer. Coach Pat Caron and Jim Sperry.
Sunday June 18, 2023
Cape Ann United beat North Andover 2:0, Max Sperry in goal. Cape Ann United scores by Gino Tripoli, the first a tap in and the second a PK, after which he turned to the stands asking, “Dad, like that? Happy Father’s Day!” Sun broke after the game.
Saturday June 17, 2023
An overcast and at times rainy game. Cape Ann United defeated Masco 4:2. Max Sperry in goal. Andrew Coelho scored twice. Geremy Palacios and Domenic Paone (with an assist from Gino) scored one a piece.
Save the date MTOC Tournament
update from the coaches:
“We are on to Lancaster for the MTOC Tournament!
The link to our schedule is here. We are Team #8101
The schedule at this point in time* is:Friday6/23, 2:20pm; Saturday 6/24, 1:20pm and 2:40pm; Sunday 6/25 (if we get that far) 9:00am (Semi Final) and 10:40am (Final):
Coach Jim and Pat
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molting, preening, feeding, rafting and resting in coves off Gloucester and Rockport.
Common eiders cluster in the coves during breeding season. They can’t fly when they’re molting and raft off loudly and orderly when disturbed by small boats, people on shore, and gulls. When adults scaled the rocks, the elements were handy. Waves tossed the ducklings atop a veritable shag carpet of seaweed which looks especially thick this season.
photos: Common Eider breeding season 2023 in Gloucester and Rockport coves off Long Beach. Distant snapshots through binoculars.
Breeding season for barn swallows and tree swallows, too–incubating now. Tree swallow photo bomb in one of the video snippets below. (Adult swallows take breaks from incubating to eat. Common eider females incubate solo and do not eat until after hatching.)
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During the first week in June 2023, saw crews* installing the wooden boxes that trap the greenhead horseflies in the salt marsh at the back of Good Harbor Beach (on both sides of Thatcher Road). The boxes are new here though not to Gloucester or the region.
See below for a small selection of greenhead flies mentions that made the news–1880s on, some humorous, some not.
I have not experienced too many greenheads this way, but I don’t live beside the marsh. (They’re worse to me at Wingaersheek, Cranes, and Essex rather then Good Harbor and Long Beach.)
They’re a part of the ecosystem. Tree swallows and eastern Kingbirds eat them.
*edit: a little mystery as to who and how. Saw them installing the beach side on June 3, 2023.
Greenhead flies in the news:
1889 Delaware defends itself. “That Delaware the land of mosquitoes and greenhead flies is a good state “to emigrate from,” will no doubt be the decision of the fire insurance companies doing business there after January 1st…The valued policy law and mosquitoes we confess and deplore; but we kick on the greenhead flies and log cabins with mud chimneys. There are counties in Pennsylvania which beat the whole State of Delaware out of sight in both…greenhead flies are scarce here…”
1907 Green Flies Bother Men and Horses at Ipswich.
“…Thus far the cavalrymen have made no concerted complaint over the invasion of greenhead flies. These pests have stingers like hot needles and cause great annoyance to men and horses.”
1910 from the wires
“You’ll see them in Guayaquil. There the mosquitoes and greenhead flies are so thick that horses and donkeys, unless their legs are cased in cloth, become unmanageable with the pain, Guayaquill is in Ecuador. It is directly under the equator. The heat there is insufferable. Up and down its narrow streets in bluish clouds of buzzing insects walk horses and donkeys in sunbonnets and pantaloons.”
carried in US papers Nov. 1910
1914 excerpt from humorous column by James Montgomery Flagg
“No matter where you happen to be, whether it’s in South Berwick, in New York, or in jail, there comes the time of year when you want to go somewhere else…If you don’t happen to own a shack out in the country, you write to various resorts for terms. Just as you have settled on a seemingly perfect spot, you mention where you are going to a friend. The friend says: “East Bunquit! For the love of Ozone, don’t go there! I tried to spend a summer there once; we were eaten alive by the mosquitoes and greenhead flies! And the cemetery is just outside the dining room window…”
James Montgomery Flagg in Words and Pictures: I Should Say So!! Going Away From Here is not Such a Cinch, 1914
1935
“MANY WISH SOMETHING could be done about the elimination of horseflies, or greenhead flies. Swarms of these pests are molesting bathers at seashore resorts during the past two weeks. Conditions have been so bad on the hot muggy days that many persons who enjoy the seashore have purposely remained away. The greenheads appear at a certain time every summer and while they last they are a nuisance. It is said that spraying operations on the salt marshes drive the greenhead flies out.”
Gloucester Daily Times August 1935 notice
1946 Boston Globe
“…The greenheads, you may be interested to know, are a little more stream-lined than the common horsefly although they belong to the same genre…they don’t fly ordinarily at night. They turn the night over to mosquitos. Maybe it’s a contract…The state has employed Norman H. Bailey, instructor in biology at (BU) to do special research work on the greenhead fly this Summer. He has a collection of these winged A-bombs in little wire cages and right now is hunting egg clusters which are sometimes found–and they are hard to find–attached to blades of marsh grass. One of the highlights ” of his experience to date is the time he sat in his car with the windows down and counted 475 greenhead visitors in 15 minutes. He doesn’t say how many bit him…”
K. S. Bartlett. Boston Globe. “State opens Fight Against Ferocious Essex County Greenheads: Hard-Biting Flies, No Respecters of Persons, Pursued Author Marquand into Sea”
1948 Greenhead Fly Bill passed in the State Senate. $3000 for a study about the “fly nuisance in the tidal areas of Newburyport, Gloucester, Salisbury, Newbury, Rowley, Ipswich and Essex.” Gloucester Daily Times, April 20th
1950s The North Shore Greenhead Fly Program worked with US Fish and Wildlife. Regionally, aimed to Greenhead fly control in any anti mosquito campaigns. Mid 1950s city’s allocation for control was $1000 annually.
1951 Regional officials press state to undertake greenhead fly eradication
1953 Boston Globe: North shore declares War on Greenhead Fly! “…the greenhead is the one that removes both flesh and blood in its sudden attack…”
1956 Cape Ann Tree Wardens attended the 2nd Annual Northeastern Mosquito Control Conference at UMASS in Amherst reflecting greater “awakening of public interest in control measures”. Dr. Bertram Gerry, a member of the Greenhead Reclamation Board, was a featured speaker.
1958 Gloucester Daily Times notice about upcoming 2 marsh sprayings in July for greenhead fly control
1961Gloucester Daily Times front page coverage
“Gloucester is taking part in three separate programs to control the insects. One is the state program which begins in April or May. This is designed to destroy the larvae of both mosquitoes and greenheads. Gloucester pays its share of the cost for this. The city also uses its own equipment to spray all public areas such as parks and playground. The third program in the budget is for insect control in marshlands an extensive job along local inlets and waterways. Ditches are cleared of stagnant water, the flow of water directed and inhibiting chemicals applied. At one time the city tried to spray private lots but, like most communities, abandoned the mushrooming program…”
Jackie Darcy. Our Mosquitoes are Well Behaved. Gloucester Daily Times. Front page June 13, 1961. [Accessed from Sawyer Free Library GDT archives]
1960s DDT pesticide wreaked havoc on clam flats sparking a battle between industries (shellfishermen vs tourism). The press describes Cape Cod flies as similar but different and eradicated there. I have no idea how true that was but the ink for beastly bites was thick with Cape Ann stories.
1966 “greenhead flies having their annual burst of glory” and arrive first in mid-July
Late 1960s Boxes introduced — on Cape Cod. The insects fly under the belly of the boxes as they would a deer or cow. Once inside they’re drawn in and up by the light and can’t exit.
1973 Rowley scientists build a better Greenhead Fly Trap
1975 M. R. Montgomery worth a read! “Good things about the greenhead flies” Boston Globe
“…It is turnover that counts, not the capacity of the house. The greenhead fly is to parking space marketing as fast-food is to hamburger marketing…get ’em in, get their money, and get ready for the next crowd…”
1985 Boston Globe Cape Cod survivor story by Tony Chamberlain –
“On average, greenheads hurt a bit more than yellow jackets, though it is a different sort of hurt. The hornet’s hurt seems powered by a kind of electric jolt, while the bite of a greenhead–literally a bite–fairly rings with a delirious quality to it. If you have the self control not to jump when you feel it, you can easily slam the life out of the greenhead where he sits chewing on your vital substance. His very pleasure makes him an easy target, and there’s a lesson in that.”
Chamberlain goes on to recall one of his most vivid greenhead experiences on a Cape Cod fishing trip out of Chatham.
Photos; on the ground show work in progress with views across and from Stacy Boulevard, the Cut (Blynman), Centennial, Gloucester High School (parking lot, Newell Stadium). Scroll down for before photos.
[*note on photos: click “i” to enlarge to view full size.]
See more about construction projects at this site and history of sanitation here.
cOMPARE 2020 vs 2023.
BEFORE- LANDFILL along Annisquam River.
A century+ of intervention.
photos: Dump and landfill atop the saltmarsh | misc. views 2018-2021 | signage and planting related to earlier flood mitigation project at/with the high school
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