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Seaweed Serra – after the storm Long Beach #GloucesterMA #RockportMA
There’s a sea of seaweed deposited on Long Beach, customary after a big fall storm. A couple of monumental sculptural masses stood out this time.
Read more about the variety of seaweed here: Post Storm Hermine, Sept. 2016
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Day 4: down to 94 Power outages #GloucesterMa, under 100 #CapeAnn October Storm
As of October 30, 2021, the Massachusetts no name storm power outages tally 92,600 dipping below 100,000 for the first time.
Gloucester Fishermen Boys Soccer away game vs. Danvers was **NOT ** called off last evening ahead of game due to the forecast.
*Author note- updated- apologies for typo. Game on
The repair crews carry on as they brace for foul weather and high winds.
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Day 3: less than 500 Power outages on #CapeAnn. #GloucesterMa Essex Manchester Rockport in the green. MEMA Map shows 162,000+ across Mass still to go Northeast October Storm
As of October 29, 2021. Massachusetts no name storm no power outages tally 162,436, dropping steadily.
Green/0% breaks down to less than 500 out locally.
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Day 2: school closed, Power outages #GloucesterMa 40%. Essex 25%. Manchester 68%. Rockport in the green 8%. Across MASS Some 350,000 Northeast No Name Storm #CapeAnn
As of 4:30AM Thursday, October 28, 2021. Massachusetts no name storm no power outages 349,401
5:30 AM **update** Manchester improved to 25% and Essex 14%
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Back shore is busy- October storm downed tree limbs, light leaf debris #GloucesterMA at low tide
Low tide 9:44.
Next high tide (4:30) comes in after the strong wind alert winds down. Gloucester buoys measured record swell during prior high tide.
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407,000 plus- massachusetts power outage reports climbing fast
before daybreak, 400,000+ and climbing, hitting the coast, both Capes up to Boston
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#gloucesterMa schools closed 38% Power outages, Essex 100%, Rockport 64% manchester 66% Northeast Storm #CapeAnn
Massachusetts power outages 294,794 at 5:44AM are climbing near 387,676 by 6:30AM
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Saw some Autumn
Was awesome.
Errands with benefits thanks to all the local trick or treat eye candy. October 2021
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Kids Halloween Festival at Stage Fort park a monster bash #gloucesterMA
Mayor Romeo Theken and friends, Gloucester 2021 Halloween Festival at Stage Fort Park was a smash. Congratulations to the party planners, Roseanne Cody, Jamie Margiotta, volunteers, generous sponsors and partners. All of Stage Fort Park was in use on this beautiful autumn day. I forgot to take a picture at the dog park but it was busy and festive, too.
Enjoy a few snapshots of the Gloucester Halloween Festival Stage Fort Park 2021. How fun to see not one, not two, but three tractor hayrides looping Stage Fort Park.
Mayor Romeo Theken cues the crowd
See Jimmy Dalpiaz GMG post from the prep at City Hall readying for this big event
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Breaking news: Heidi Dallin establishing YMCA of the North Shore Theater Company at Cape Ann Y offering inclusive professional theater arts training and performance opportunities #GloucesterMA
Happy winds of change-
“Theater at the Cape Ann YMCA kicks off with a Holiday Delights Performance Workshop during which student actors can learn the basics of professional theater as well as be part of a Cape Ann holiday tradition.
The 7 week session culminates in a workshop performance of scenes from Holiday Delights for family and friends at Ames Hall in Salem. Set in Gloucester, Holiday Delights is a festive evening of stories, music and movement recounting the special traditions that other cultures and families experience as seen through a young child’s magical journey on Christmas Eve to discover what is really important during the holiday season.
Theater training at the Cape Ann YMCA provides young people an outlet to nurture their creative potential while developing self-confidence, communication and teamwork skills as well as introducing them to the skills necessary for professional theatre. The YMCA of the North Shore Theater Company– NOW Offering Theater Training Performance Opportunities at the Cape Ann YMCA!”
Heidi Dallin | YMCA of the North Shore Theatre Specialist
Theatre Kids Save the dates –
- For the first week only: 5-9 year olds will meet Friday, October 29 from 4-6 pm for a skills workshop and intro to the play
- 10-18 year olds will meet Saturday, October 30 from 10 am to 12 pm for a skills workshop and intro to the play.
- Please note the workshop meets Fridays, 4pm-6 pm and Saturdays 10am -12pm. However, student actor schedules will vary according to their roles and the scenes being rehearsed. All participants must wear sneakers to each session.
- The workshop performance of Holiday Delights will take place at 2 pm on Sunday, December 12 at Ames Hall in Salem.
Contact Heidi Dallin | Cape Ann YMCA (P) 978-283-0470 (E) dallinh@northshoreymca.org 
www.northshoreymca.org
YMCA of the North Shore arts programs
Dallin is also running a program at Manchester/Essex Middle School. Look for their “Annie” notices soon!
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UMass Lowell collegians & Gloucester fishermen boys varsity soccer alumi watch the dracut game – 3 home games this week wed., thurs.(seniors night), sat. at ghs new balance newell stadium- come on down!! ⚽⚽
GHS Gloucester Fishermen boys varsity soccer are 8-2-1 bound for Swampscott (away) today, looking to cinch playoffs. Boys & girls sports team alternate home vs. away. Tonight Gloucester Fishermen girls varsity soccer home game is their “Senior Night” 6pm at GHS New Balance-Newell stadium.
Senior Night, honoring the senior players, is not always last home game. Check the full calendar below!
photo caption: (L-R) Felix, Richard, Kyle (Enz not pictured) | GHS Gloucester Fishermen boys varsity soccer alumi watch game vs. Dracut October, 2021. Gloucester won –shut out 8:0 – courtesy photo Paul Vitale
GHS FISHERMEN ATHLETICS SPORTS SCHEDULE all teams-
https://www.northeasternma.org/public/genie/595/school/5/
Boys soccer schedule-
| Monday, Oct 18, 2021 Game 4:30PM Away vs. Swampscott Blocksidge Field Wednesday, Oct 20, 2021 Game 4:30PM Winthrop High School Gloucester High School Thursday, Oct 21, 2021 SENIOR NIGHT Game 6:00PM Salem Gloucester High School Saturday, Oct 23, 2021 Game 10:00AM Wayland Gloucester High School Monday, Oct 25, 2021 Game 4:00PM Marblehead Gloucester High School Thursday, Oct 28, 2021 Game 6:00PM Beverly High School Gloucester High School Saturday, Oct 30, 2021 Game 3:00PM Away vs. Danvers Danvers High School |  |
GHS Fishermen Athletics website –all sports – https://gloucesterhighschoolma.rschoolteams.com/
Twitter – Tweets by @FishermenGhs
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GHS sports calendar- today’s listing, Monday, October 18, 2021
| 9:00am | Golf: Varsity State Tournament | vs. TBA @ Renaissance Golf Club |
| Division 3 North Tournament | ||
| 4:00pm | Field Hockey: MS Game | vs. Beverly High School @ O’Maley Middle School Nate Ross Field |
| 4:30pm | Soccer: Girls JV Game | vs. Swampscott @ Gloucester High School Newell Stadium |
| 4:30pm | Soccer: Boys Varsity Game | vs. Swampscott @ Blocksidge Field |
| 4:30pm | Soccer: Boys JV Game | vs. Swampscott @ Blocksidge Field |
| 6:00pm | Field Hockey: Varsity Game | vs. Central Catholic @ Central Catholic High School |
| Non-League | ||
| 6:00pm | Soccer: Girls Varsity Game | vs. Swampscott @ Gloucester High School Newell Stadium |
| Senior Night |
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mums and fishes | dRift and tonno cool seats main Street #Gloucesterma
Then and now: Thousands of gorgeous fall dahlias Stacy Boulevard #GloucesterMA and award winning lufkin dahlia gardens 1925
There’s a bright autumn haze in Stacy Boulevard gardens. Thousands of fall dahlias are waiting. Go find your bloom and color!
The varieties are labeled. I wondered how many were chosen, and if any were grown from area heirloom seeds? The Glory of New England, a prizewinning “fancy dahlia” dazzler was cultivated from seeds by the Lufkin dahlia gardens of Gloucester and introduced in 1925 (see below). I love reading about Gloucester gardeners.
Dahlia flowers were eventually named after Swedish botanist, Anders Dahl. The giant ones are nicknamed dinner plate dahlias. In the 1800s avid gardeners and commercial seed and plant firms bloomed in Massachusetts. Established in the early 1800s, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society is recognized as the oldest in the country. A gardener from Bridgewater is credited with the first American collarette dahlia variety in 1912.
Thousands of gorgeous dahlias, exhibited by 50 growers attracted throngs to Horticultural Hall on the opening day of the free dahlia show, held under the joint auspices of the New England Dahlia Society and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
For the site of his exhibit and the magnificence of its setting, L.L. Branthover of Wakefield held first place. His pompom dahlias decorate the stage of the lecture hall, and rays from a warm moon falling obliquely over the stately blooms, against their evergreen background, lend added glory to the scene.
Wonderful tints of orange, cream, scarlet, vermillion and gold are to be seen in the dahlias exhibited by George L. Fish of Billerica, president of the society. (“Francis Cooper Hav-A-Look” illust.)
Giant blossoms, some of yellow with white tips, are introduced for the first time from seedlings of the Lufkin dahlia gardens of Gloucester. The new blossom is called “The Glory of New England.”
Another prize winning variety is the dark-red “Alexander Pope,” one of the most beautiful of the collection in the A.I. Strobel exhibit, grown in the Montrose dahlia gardens of Wakefield.
Boston Globe 1925 – 2 Wakefield gardens, 1 Billerica, and the “Lufkin dahlia gardens of Gloucester” are featured
Topsfield Fair and flower show competitions
Have any Gloucester gardeners entered the Topsfield Fair this year? There are usually dahlias in the running.
Whenever any one flower is cultivated and shown, I always think of Mrs. Miniver and the rose. Maybe someone can propagate a “Glory of Gloucester Gardens” variety for the city of Gloucester’s horticultural history then & now, generous gardeners and public works!
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seven pairs – beautiful days
Soaking up the sun. View across Long Beach from Cape Ann Motor Inn, Gloucester, Ma.
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rocky neck art colony walking tours october 2021 #gloucesterma
Courtney Richardson shares news from Rocky Neck Art Colony:
New Spin on Walking Tour of Rocky Neck Art Colony
Location: Tours meet in parking lot at entrance to Rocky Neck
Dates: October 2021- 9, 23 & 24
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rocky-neck-art-colony-walking-tour-tickets-182611825887
Explore Rocky Neck Art Colony with a guided tour of the neighborhood focusing on earliest residents, fishermen, artists and more!
The Rocky Neck Art Colony is pleased to offer guided walking tours of the neighborhood on Saturday, October 9, 2021 at 1 PM; Saturday, October 23 at 1 PM and Sunday October 24 at 10:30 AM. These tours are free for RNAC members or $10 for nonmembers. Tickets can be reserved at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rocky-neck-art-colony-walking-tour-tickets-182611825887
In appreciation of the unique continuum that is Rocky Neck today, the walking tour showcases both the rich history of Rocky Neck and the contributions and achievements of the present community. Building on the original Rocky Neck Historic Art Trail (https://trail.rockyneckartcolony.org/), the tour takes visitors on a journey from the time of Native Americans to today. The path includes many of the diverse subjects that have enriched today’s community: Native Americans, fishermen, industry, ships, tourism, transportation, celebrations, education, entertainment, and ,of course, the artists. The tour is informative and enjoyable for both guides and visitors. Tours begin at the Rocky Neck Parking Lot, end at the Cultural Center, last 1 to 1.5 hours and are limited to 10 people. Participants are encouraged to park in the parking lot located at the entrance to Rocky Neck. Comfortable shoes are encouraged. Be prepared to walk on uneven terrain. Water is available. Free for RNAC members; $10 nonmembers. For more information email rnac.director@gmail.com or call 978-515-7004.
The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) was founded in the mid-19th century and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 1973. With the creation of the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck in 2012, RNAC programs are reaching a wider demographic as the visual arts focus is expanding to include more diverse cultural and educational offerings. The Cultural Center is located at 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930. For more information visit www.rockyneckartcolony.org.
Image credit: Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967). The Mansard Roof, 1923. Watercolor over graphite on paper, 13 7/8 x 20 in. (35.2 x 50.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 23.100. © artist or artist’s estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 23.100_SL1.jpg).
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so this is happening oct 3 at 3pm – classical music classic place CAPE ANN SYMPHONY AT UU CHURCH #GLOUCESTERMA
Check out the progress underway on the tower
10/3 at 3PM TODAY – beautiful program lined up. Buy tickets online or at the door
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last chance! splendid waves at peabody essex museum FEATURE CROSS COUNTRY MUST SEE LOANS
Today, tomorrow (Oct. 3) final days of exhibit, In American Waters: The Sea in American Paintings, at Peabody Essex Museum.
Don’t be distracted by a simplistic thematic construct especially when it coaxes a mind game of “What about…?” as in: What about this artist or that one? Why aren’t they included? (Visual artists like May Stevens, Vija Celmins, Blanche Lazzell, Juane Quick to see Smith, April Gornik, Joan Nelson, Duncanson, Eric Aho, Morris graves, Rauschenberg, Fischl, Frankenthaler, Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Hopper, and Edward Hopper sprang readily to mind. And more Lawrence.) What about the de rigueur annual summer exhibitions at major galleries and institutions, since late 1880s? Aren’t the planet’s oceans a global motif not limited by media or place?
Ignore the categories or “chapters”.
Forget the sea change promise.
Just go.
Do make the must see trip to be awed and enjoy the momentous loans and great gift of seeing these selections displayed, together and their many moods of expression. Sensuous, tranquil, volatile, mysterious, distant, abstract–this major group show delivers art that conveys emotion, expressed and experienced.
installation view photos
photos: c. ryan, May 29, 2021
Stunning installation design
*mostly (scroll through till end for some misses)
individual works
in no particular order
Animated some to help bring you there:
Museum wall labels – 3d letters, Frederick Douglass quote
Major American lending institutions and private collections including:
Crystal Bridges
Crystal Bridges partnered with PEM, so naturally most loans were procured from Arkansas.
William Trost Richards; Richard Diebenkorn; Frank Benson; Amy Sherald; Marsden Hartley
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Charles Sheeler; Jan Matulka
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
William Trost Richards
New York, Metropolitan Museum
John Frederick Kensett
Collection of New York City
John Wesley Jarvis
Navy Art Collection
Hughie Lee Smith; Paul Cadmus
American Civil War Museum
Conrad Wise Chapman
Phillips Collection
John Sloan
Smithsonian
Stuart Davis; Hughie Lee Smith
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Cuneo
Brooklyn Museum
Rockwell Kent
MoMa Museum of Modern Art
Fletcher Martin
Wadsworth Athenaeum
Kensett
Cahoon Museum American Art
North Carolina Museum of Art
Luks
This show was also billed as one exhibition comprising PEM’s **new** Climate and Environmental Initiative. **Includes iconic American homoerotic art – Cadmus Fleet’s In and Fletcher Martin**
Installation views and museum labels more of a miss
Waters elsewhere on view from the Peabody Essex Museum
Josh Simpson megaplanet glass earth, 1989
Michael C. McMillen detail of The Pequod II
Sea Coco
installation view Rockman exhibit, May 29, 2021, see more here
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Last chAnce: In American Waters Peabody Essex Museum. splendid waves amazing loans. Go!
Today, tomorrow 10/3/2021 final days of exhibit, In American Waters: The Sea in American Paintings, at Peabody Essex Museum.
Don’t be distracted by a simplistic thematic construct especially when it coaxes a mind game of “What about…?” as in: What about this artist or that one? Why aren’t they included? (Visual artists like May Stevens, Vija Celmins, Blanche Lazzell, Juane Quick to see Smith, April Gornik, Joan Nelson, Duncanson, Eric Aho, Morris graves, Rauschenberg, Fischl, Frankenthaler, Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Hopper, and Edward Hopper sprang readily to mind. And more Lawrence.) What about the de rigueur annual summer exhibitions at major galleries and institutions, since late 1880s? Aren’t the planet’s oceans a global motif not limited by media or place? Ignore these categories or “chapters”.
Forget the sea change promise.
Just go!
Do make the must see trip to be awed and enjoy the momentous loans and great gift of seeing these selections displayed, together and their many moods of expression. Sensuous, tranquil, volatile, mysterious, distant, abstract–this major group show delivers art that conveys emotion, expressed and experienced.
installation views
C. Ryan May 29, 2021 – stunning installation design, mostly
individual works, no particular order
Animated some to help bring you there:
Museum wall labels – 3d letters, Frederick Douglass quote
Major American lending institutions and private collections including:
Crystal Bridges
Crystal Bridges partnered with PEM, so naturally most loans were procured from Arkansas.
William Trost Richards; Richard Diebenkorn; Frank Benson; Amy Sherald; Marsden Hartley
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Charles Sheeler; Jan Matulka
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
William Trost Richards
New York, Metropolitan Museum
John Frederick Kensett
Collection of New York City
John Wesley Jarvis
Navy Art Collection
Hughie Lee Smith; Paul Cadmus
American Civil War Museum
Conrad Wise Chapman
Phillips Collection
John Sloan
Smithsonian
Stuart Davis; Hughie Lee Smith
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Cuneo
Brooklyn Museum
Rockwell Kent
MoMa Museum of Modern Art
Fletcher Martin
Wadsworth Athenaeum
Kensett
Cahoon Museum American Art
North Carolina Museum of Art
Luks
This show was also billed as one exhibition comprising PEM’s **new** Climate and Environmental Initiative. **Includes iconic American homoerotic art – Cadmus Fleet’s In and Fletcher Martin**
Installation views and museum labels more of a miss
Waters elsewhere on view from the Peabody Essex Museum
Josh Simpson megaplanet glass earth, 1989
Michael C. McMillen detail of The Pequod II
Sea Coco
installation view Rockman exhibit, May 29, 2021, see more here
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coming oct. 2: Juni van dyke | alternative colors for dark times jane deering gallery #gloucesterma
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Juni Van Dyke | Alternative Colors for Dark Times: An exhibition of paintings that gives rise to positive emotions, Jane Deering Gallery, 19 Pleasant Street , Gloucester, MA.
Opening Reception Oct. 2nd, 2-5pm
Both nature and music are driving forces in my art. And, as I work, these words by Spanish painter Joan Miro are never far away: “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
It has been said that one can live in the dreariest corners of the world all the while performing color miracles on the dreariest of days. German artists Nolde and Kandinsky did just that during the dark impending doom of war suggesting color to be more a matter of preference for expression rather than allegiance to source. Perhaps, color for these courageous artists was embedded in a sense of optimism and hope despite all odds.
I am blessed to live here on Cape Ann where the geography and the light has informed my work for many years. The natural beauty of Cape Ann sweeping across granite; coastal views; hillside vistas is an ever present force in my work. On the way to my job in Gloucester, I travel over the Annisquam river bridge where the ocean below is an ever changing marvel of light and activity awaiting interpretation. Using abstract forms, I invite the viewer to experience my work without interruption of title. Energized by the interaction, I find viewer interpretation fascinating and exciting — valid without exception.
— Juni Van Dyke, October 2021
About the artist
Juni Van Dyke is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and holds an MAT from Tufts University. Since 1996, she has been the Director of the Arts Program at the Rose Baker Senior Center, Gloucester Massachusetts; under her direction, work created by the senior citizens has been exhibited in museums and public institutions in New England. She is the recipient of several awards and grants, including the St. Botolph Foundation Award, Boston; the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant; and an honorary citation from the Massachusetts Senate for her outstanding contribution to the arts. VanDyke’s work is held in the permanent collection of the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts and in numerous private collections. Her work was selected by Room&Board for inclusion in its limited edition art series and is on view throughout the US in Room&Board locations. Van Dyke lives and works in Manchester, MA. This is her fifth solo show with the gallery .
Gallery hours: Friday & Saturday 1:00-5:00 . Sunday: 1:00-4:00
and by appointment @ 978-526-7248 junivandyke@yahoo.com
Good Morning Gloucester 