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A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY, MYSTERY, AND ART AN EVENING WITH LOCAL HISTORIAN RICHARD CARLSON
The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA
Date: September 10, 2025
Time: 6:30PM
Admission: Suggested donation: $10 to benefit the Rocky Neck Art Colony
Gloucester, MA – Join us for an unforgettable evening as speaker and historian Richard Carlson brings to life the rich and storied past of Ten Pound Island, one of Rocky Neck’s most iconic and intriguing landmarks. His engaging presentation promises a journey through centuries of history, mystery, and artistic inspiration.
Ten Pound Island has been a central figure in the area’s history since well before Samuel de Champlain chartered the coast in 1606. Rich will explore the island’s many chapters—from its early days as a fish hatchery, to its role as a Coast Guard airfield during Prohibition, to its enduring legacy as home to the beloved Ten Pound Island Light.
This lively talk will also dive into the island’s more enigmatic moments. Expect tales of sea monster sightings, the infamous Great Rat Flood, and the ways in which artists have been captivated by the island’s beauty over the years.
Whether you’re a history buff, maritime folklore lover, or simply curious about Gloucester’s hidden gems, this is an event you won’t want to miss.
Come uncover the captivating history and legends of Ten Pound Island—right in the heart of Gloucester. Free (or Suggested Donation of $10.00) and Open to the Public
Sunday September 7th @ 7:00pm Annisquam VIllage Church 820 Washington Street . Gloucester MA
The Lobster Cove String Quartet embarks on its third season with a performance at the Annisquam Village Church, Sunday, September 7 at 7:00pm. The program’s title, In Search of Lost Time, is a nod to the novel of the same name by Marcel Proust, and the ways memory, art, history, and inner life intertwine in the human experience. The quartet is joined by guest clarinetist Bill Kirkley, whose playing the Boston Globe calls “emotional, committed, and intensely exciting.” The Brahms Clarinet Quintet anchors the program, alongside works from living composers Caroline Shaw and Kenji Bunch,as well as miniatures by Schumann and Gershwin. Scott Moore, LCSQ violinist and Artist-in-Residence at the Village Church, writes: “We are all shaped profoundly by the past: the stories and relics we carry with us, and which we continue to discover as we move ever on into the present moment. We might look back with nostalgia, or else seek to learn from earlier lessons. We study the works of past masters, looking to them for inspiration as we try to make some kind of sense of our own experiences, searching for meaning or connection. We are moved by a work of art, and realize the artist was also a person on their own similar search. Brahms came out of compositional retirement to create the Clarinet Quintet: a piece only a master could write, whose autumnal tone and retrospective feeling are unmistakable. The music is quintessentially Romantic, quintessentially Brahms; yet if we listen carefully, we hear in Brahms the influence of Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, at every turn. This piece was loosely modeled after Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, written a century before. Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte is a sort of riff on the classical minuet and trio; inspired partly by Haydn, it nonetheless sounds completely fresh and new—contemporary in the most attractive, vital, and approachable way. Kenji Bunch has referred to his String Quartet No. 3, subtitled Apocryphal Dances, as a ‘love letter to the 18th and 19th centuries’. Yet while the forms take inspiration from the old, the harmonic and melodic language is playfully postmodern. Meanwhile,Gershwin’s ‘Promenade’ and Schumann’s ‘Abendlied’ (written for his children) are charming vignettes from times gone by—little glimpses into the past, which stir our souls across the years.” In Search of Lost Time the Lobster Cove String Quartet with Bill Kirkley, clarinet Sunday, 7th September at 7pm | $35 suggested Annisquam Village Church | 820 Washington St . Gloucester, MA 01930
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Opening reception: Saturday September 6, 2025, 4 – 6 pm
Artists’ Talk: Sunday September 21, 2025, 3 – 4 pm
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. Paul Klee
Three Women Draw brings together three artists whose work differs in style, but not in seriousness. Gabrielle Barzaghi, Ann Ledy and Susan Erony all feel a need to make art, a need that goes beyond choosing to do so, and one that makes their studios the places they feel most at home. In this show, the unifying element is drawing, the basis of art making for all of them. Drawing is a universal practice, though most people may not realize it. Anyone who learns to write, learns, in effect, to make marks, to draw, and mark making has been a human practice going back tens of thousands of years.
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Location: The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester
Dates: August 28 – October 13, 2025
Opening Reception: 4–6 PM, Sunday, September 14, 2025
Gallery Hours: Thursday–Sunday, 12–5 PM
Free and Open to the Public.
Navigating Art & Science featuring eight artists who are deeply involved in scientific inquiry and activism. While local scientists search for ways to help ocean species be more resilient to survive the rapidly changing marine environment, these artists, alert to the predicament, are creating art with urgent messages for stewardship and action.
The exhibit coincides with a city-wide initiative STAND UP for Art & Science, coordinated by Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute volunteers.
While all the work in the exhibition has been created in response to human impact on the environment, in addition, several of the artists have been inspired by expeditions to the Arctic Circle and Greenland and residencies in marine laboratories on Cape Ann and beyond. The seven-week exhibit shows how art can transform the impact and implications of science into something concrete, visible and personal.
The public is invited to celebrate Navigating Art & Science at the Opening Reception on Sunday September 14, 4–6 PM. Mark your calendars for exhibition-related programming at the Cultural Center: a sneak preview of Ken Riaf’s new play, “Copy and Acknowledge” read by Lanes Coven actors on September 7 at 7:00 PM and an artists’ panel discussion on Sunday, September 28 at 4:00 PM, moderated by artist and writer, Chris Volpe.
Exhibiting Artists: Resa Blatman, Daisy Braun, Georgie Friedman, Perri Lynch Howard, Michelle Lougee, Michelle Samour, Jessica Straus, and Christopher Volpe.
Rocky Neck Art Colony presents: Rephrasing at Cove Gallery 8/21-9/14
Exhibition Title: Rephrasing
Location: Cove Gallery, 37 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930
Dates: August 21 – September 14, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 21 from 4-7PM
Hours: Sunday and Monday, 12-5PM; Thursday – Saturday, 12-7PM
Rocky Neck Art Colony is proud to present Rephrasing, an exhibition curated by Janice Brand. This show, the fifth for the season at Cove Gallery, encompasses the mixed-media work of four artists who utilize the concepts of adaptation and revision.
Shira Karman focuses on fragments that relate to some other time or place, whether known or unknown. She is interested in how these fragments tell a story that she may know or hope to uncover.
Tobi Klein explores mono-printing, collage, and other mixed-media techniques, taking inspiration from the continual shifting of light, color, and pattern of the granite quarries and the sea. She builds a story, inviting viewers to peel back the layers and look below the surface.
Helen Tory uses diverse media to express her connection with birds described in her father’s 1930s nature diaries. A variety of paint, mark-making, torn papers, and string elicit each bird’s particular characteristics.
Patricia Wellenkamp uses a series of carved linoleum blocks to print on cotton and other fabrics. She incorporates embroidery, paper, and other elements to add ornamentation and complexity to images that might come from an ancestor’s dress, dahlias in her garden or imagined landscapes.
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The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC), a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, nurtures excellence in the arts through exhibitions, workshops, residencies and vibrant cultural events for its members and the public. On picturesque Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts, RNAC operates three exhibition spaces, open to the public for free: The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck (6 Wonson Street); The Salted Cod Arthouse (53 Rocky Neck Ave.), a partnership gallery and café; and Cove Gallery (37 Rocky Neck Ave.), open seasonally in the former gallery of local artists Gordon and Judith Goetemann. Check the website, www.rockyneckartcolony.org, for hours, openings and special events. For more information, see the website or call 978-515-7004.
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Location: The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA Exhibition Dates: July 17 – August 24, 2025 Opening Reception: Sunday, July 20, 5:00–7:00 PM Gallery Hours: Thursday 12–7 PM; Friday–Sunday 12–5 PM Admission: Free
Gloucester, MA – Rocky Neck Art Colony is pleased to announce the opening of Boundless: The Art of the Book, on view at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck from July 17 through August 24, 2025.
This dynamic exhibition explores the rich and ever-evolving world of the book as an art form. Featuring artist books, altered books, and book illustration, Boundless showcases imaginative approaches to storytelling, visual poetry, personal narratives, and inventive book structures. Visitors will encounter works that range from the traditional to the avant-garde—books that hang, twist, stand, open like advent calendars, or defy conventional forms altogether.
The exhibition presents an array of techniques including letterpress, etching, monoprint, painting, photography, and mixed media. Through these varied practices, artists interrogate themes of memory, imagination, identity, and the contemporary moment.
An Opening Reception will be held on Sunday, July 20, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. The public is warmly invited to view the work, meet the artists, and enjoy refreshments and lively conversation.
Boundless features contributions from a distinguished group of artists, including local creatives, university faculty, and artists affiliated with book arts communities throughout New England and beyond, including Boston, Philadelphia, New York, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Exhibiting Artists: Ren Barnes, Stevens Brosnihan, Rachel Church, Pamela Courtleigh, Haig Demarjian, Mary Dewey, Madge Evers, Lynda Fatalo, Cristina Hajosy, Hannah Jacoby-Brooks, Linda Kauss, Giles Laroche, Kelle Louaillier, Leslie Lyman, Fred Lynch, Claire B. Marcus, Cynthia Marsh, R. Ellis Orrall, Sarah Parella, Rhoda Rosenberg, Lynne Sausele, Mary Beth Smith, Lorna Stevens, Juni Van Dyke, Anna Vojtech, Larry Volk, Karen Watson, Antoinette Winters, Kyung Eun You.
The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC), a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, nurtures excellence in the arts through exhibitions, workshops, residencies and vibrant cultural events for its members and the public. On picturesque Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts, RNAC operates three exhibition spaces, open to the public for free, The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck (6 Wonson Street); The Salted Cod Arthouse (53 Rocky Neck Ave.), a partnership gallery and café; and Cove Gallery (37 Rocky Neck Ave.), open seasonally in the former gallery of local artists Gordon and Judith Goetemann. Check the website, www.rockyneckartcolony.org, for hours, openings and special events. For more information, see the website or call 978-515-7004
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The Salted Cod Gallery is delighted to announce that Judy Robinson-Cox, a celebrated Gloucester-based multimedia artist, will be the featured guest artist for the month of July. Known for her imaginative Lilliputian landscapes and whimsical visual storytelling, Robinson-Cox’s work invites viewers to see the extraordinary in the everyday.
A fixture in the New England arts scene, Robinson-Cox has exhibited extensively throughout the region and beyond, with solo and group shows at institutions such as the Rockport Art Association, Marblehead Arts Association, Griffin Museum of Photography, Johnson & Wales Culinary Arts Museum, and even Neiman Marcus. Her miniature, meticulously crafted environments blur the boundaries between photography, sculpture, and montage—offering humorous, surreal, and poignant glimpses into tiny imagined worlds.
“My art has always been a space to explore the humorous, surreal, and poignant elements of life—often through a very tiny lens,” says Robinson-Cox. “It’s a joy to bring these worlds to new audiences, and I’m thrilled to show this body of work at The Salted Cod.”
Visitors can view Judy Robinson-Cox’s work daily throughout July. The Salted Cod Gallery is open from 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM, located in the heart of Gloucester’s working waterfront. Admission is free and open to the public.
About the Venue: The Salted Cod Arthouse In 2021, local residents Matthew Moynahan and Thomas Aurelio purchased the historic “Tin Building”—a former fish preparation and paint warehouse—alongside the iconic Rudder Restaurant. Committed to revitalizing Rocky Neck, they reopened the building in 2022 following the thoughtful restoration of its second floor to create additional space for the arts. Today, The Salted Cod Arthouse proudly serves as a creative and cultural hub, offering local art, libations, and essential provisions to sailors, fishermen, artists, visitors, and curious passersby in America’s oldest seaport and working art colony.
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Six Ways of Seeing the World July 10- August 3, 2025
Cove Gallery: July 10-August 3, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 10, 5–7 PM Closing Event & Artist Talks: Thursday, July 31, 5–7 PM
Curated by Gabrielle Rossmer Featuring: Kathy Archer, Paul Cary Goldberg, Donald Gropman, Sonya Gropman, Gabrielle Rossmer, and Constance Vallis
In a time marked by uncertainty and transformation, six artists come together to explore how art can serve as both personal expression and cultural reflection. Six Ways of Seeing the World, curated by Gabrielle Rossmer, offers a compelling look at how visual art helps us process, respond to, and shape our understanding of the contemporary world.
Through diverse media—painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, and collage—these six artists examine the intersections of inner life and external forces. While their approaches and mediums vary, they share a commitment to introspection, craft, and a meaningful engagement with today’s fractured landscape.
· Kathleen Gerdon Archer conveys emotional depth and existential searching through paintings of ambiguous, floating figures. Her palette swings from bleak to bright, mirroring the emotional tension between despair and fleeting hope.
· Paul Cary Goldberg presents black, white, and gray-toned photographs in an installation format for the first time. His long-running exploration of personal and social narrative gains new form, offering a contemplative, immersive experience.
· Constance Vallis draws from spiritual practice, working in intuitive response to the present moment. Her process-driven artwork reflects a meditative connection to feeling and form.
· Donald Gropman offers meticulously rendered black-and-white drawings that sharply critique societal absurdities. With wit and precision, his work blends fantasy and commentary.
· Sonya Gropman transforms urban detritus—found while walking through New York City—into layered, stitched collages. Her work gives new life to discarded materials, turning the overlooked into poignant, abstract reflections of a shifting world.
· Gabrielle Rossmer, both curator and participant, presents sculpture that ranges from figurative to abstract. Her work examines form, color, and narrative gesture, always grounded in a personal response to the world around her.
Together, these artists demonstrate six unique but interconnected ways of seeing. Their works push the boundaries of their chosen media, reflecting on today’s world with vulnerability, insight, and artistic rigor.
About the Venue Located in the heart of Gloucester’s historic Rocky Neck Art Colony, the Cove Gallery is a dynamic exhibition space dedicated to showcasing the work of contemporary artists. Surrounded by working studios and a vibrant waterfront community, the gallery provides an inspiring setting for artists and visitors alike, continuing the area’s rich legacy as one of the oldest continuously operating art colonies in the United States.
Admission is free and open to the public.
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Gallery hours during exhibition: Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 12 – 5pm and By appointment: office@capeanncosmos.com
For the summer attractions, COSMOS Gallery in Gloucester will host two shows featuring the works of collage artists. This medium has no boundaries—it can be two- or three-dimensional; comprised of any texture, surface, or material; created by any number of methods. The unifying talent among the artists: ingenuity.
The first show, ASSEMBLE I, will open on Friday, June 27 and feature the works of four artists: Brad Greenwood (Los Angeles), Hans Pundt (Gloucester), Matthew Rose (Paris), and Meredith Anderson (Gloucester). Each artist brings a unique approach to the art form. Their aesthetics tend toward the surreal, humorous, beguiling, wry, strange, and erotic. COSMOS Gallery will exhibit a multitude of pieces from each artist, price range $3,000 – $100.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
BRAD GREENWOOD Brad Greenwood received his BA from Ursinus College in 1989 and his degree in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1996. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Eat the Wolf in November 2012 at La MaMa Galleria and Unauthorized Biographies at Mixed Greens Gallery in November 2013. A solo show Partly Fiction featured ten years of works on paper and opened at New York’s Steven Amedee Gallery in May 2019. In 2021, a solo show of his new collages was presented at The Nook Gallery at Counterpoint in Los Angeles. Greenwood has also shown in numerous group exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia and has curated multiple shows for HERE Arts Center in New York.
HANS PUNDT Hans Pundt is an artist and a retired estate horticulturalist on Cape Ann who has created a portfolio of renowned landscapes and intricate assemblage artworks since the early 1980s. His creative work in nature has been honored by awards from the Passage Flower Show in Salem, the Topsfield Fair, and the Boston Flower Show. Hans’ two- and three-dimensional artistic works were launched from his Granite Hill studio beginning in the late 1990s when he was part of the Local Colors co-op. He went on to exhibit at local businesses, Flat Rocks Gallery, Rocky Neck, the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA, the Glenn Urquhart School Gallery, and the Cape Ann Museum outreach project.
MATTHEW ROSE Matthew Rose graduated from Brown University (1981) with a degree in Semiotics/Linguistics. Influenced by Americans Ray Johnson, Jasper Johns, Joseph Cornell and a handful of French surrealists, he has created a rich life as a visual artist, author (both as journalist and novelist), and traveler/curator. Rose has become renowned for his collage work and prefers paper—“its texture, how it absorbs or not paint, how it rots.” Many of the materials Rose uses come from his walks of the Paris streets. “There is a sensibility here [in Paris…] an openness. It’s easy for me to work here. The street gives me a lot of stuff.” Most any day of the week, Rose can be found in his studio near Montparnasse, manipulating paper, wood, canvas, but has been seen trekking the world, with projects and shows taking him to Israel, Sri Lanka, USA, and Mexico.
MEREDITH ANDERSON Artmaking and creativity have always been vital components of Meredith’s life—embedded in her DNA and in the turpentine-scented home in Rockport, MA where she was raised. After completing art studies at Hunter College and working as an art mover, in 2000 she returned to Cape Ann with husband and son, and built a local reputation in graphic design and jewelry creation. Today she freely explores material and form, moving between painting, sculpture, and assemblage. Her work comes from an essential and intuitive place and forms the interpretation of her world.
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Present Time: Readings from the T.S. Eliot House Poets Featuring Kristin Prevallet, Hoa Nguyen, Erika Meitner, and Maria Sledmere
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025 Time: 5:00 – 6:30 PM Location: Rocky Neck Cultural Center, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA Admission: Free, RSVP is appreciated RSVP Contact:tseliotfestival@gmail.com
Join us for a powerful evening of contemporary poetry as four distinguished poets from the T.S. Eliot House Residency Program gather to share their work. Present Time offers a rare opportunity to experience the voices shaping the landscape of modern poetry—each poet bringing a distinctive vision and lyrical force to the stage.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited; RSVPs are appreciated.
Featured Poets:
Hoa Nguyen Author of several acclaimed poetry collections, including As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998–2008, and Violet Energy Ingots—a finalist for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her sixth book, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, was shortlisted for the National Book Award, Kingsley Tufts Award, and the Governor General’s Literary Award. Nguyen currently teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University and mentors’ writers at Guelph University and the University of Toronto.
Maria Sledmere A poet and scholar based in Glasgow, Scotland, Sledmere is director of SPAM Press and Senior Lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde. Her many publications include Languishing, cute (with Ian Macartney, 2025), Midsummer Song (2024), Cinders (2024), and An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun (2023). Her work explores ecopoetic, dream logic, and experimental lyricism.
Erika Meitner The award-winning author of six poetry collections, Meitner’s Holy Moly Carry Me won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent work, Useful Junk (2022), examines intimacy, embodiment, and digital life. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and her next collection, Assembled Audience, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2026.
K (Kristin) Prevallet A poet, essayist, and scholar based in Gloucester, MA, and the current Residency Administrator of the T.S. Eliot House. Prevallet has published seven collections, including A Varied and Tender Multiplicity: A Materia Medica of Plants, Poems, and Spells (Station Hill Press). Her work has appeared in The New Republic, Harvard Review, Boston Review, and Peripheries.
The Shape of Abstraction: Tracing a Visual Revolution
Presented by Adria Arch
Wednesday, June 25, 7 pm
The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Offered in conjunction with The Shape of Things, on view at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, June 5 – July 13, 2025
The Shape of Abstraction is an image-based discussion about the language of abstraction: how Western art history came to embrace abstraction, and how it manifests itself today in contemporary art. Boston artist and educator, Adria Arch, will discuss early practitioners including Hilma Af Klint, Kandinsky and O’Keeffe, through the abstract expressionists like Pollock and Krasner, and to contemporary artists who enliven today’s conversations with their own take on this style of artmaking.
This visually rich presentation will trace abstraction’s radical departure from representational traditions, examining how artists began to express emotional, spiritual, and intellectual concepts through non-objective forms, colors, and compositions. Arch will highlight pivotal moments when artists broke from convention to develop a new visual language that prioritized formal elements over literal depiction.
Special attention will be given to pioneering women abstractionists whose contributions were often overlooked in traditional art historical narratives. The lecture concludes with an exploration of how contemporary artists continue to push the boundaries of abstraction, incorporating new technologies, cultural influences, and conceptual frameworks that revitalize this enduring artistic approach.
About the speaker
Adria Arch is a Boston-based sculptor, painter, and installation artist who has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, and in Auvillar, France. Her work is included in many private and public collections including the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Danforth Art, and the Fitchburg Art Museum, as well as Fidelity Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. In 2019 her work was featured at the Fitchburg Art Museum, and in 2020 at the Cahoon Museum of American Art. Most recently, Arch was commissioned by Google to create a permanent room-sized installation. Arch has shown at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, Brattleboro Art Museum in Vermont and the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA. This year, she will present solo exhibitions at Lake George Arts Project and at San Luis Obispo Art Museum in California. Arch has taught at Montserrat College of Art, Endicott College and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has lectured at the Danforth Museum, the Weston Arts and Innovation Center Women in Installation series, and the Boston Sculptors Gallery.
About Rocky Neck Art Colony
The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC), a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, nurtures excellence in the arts through exhibitions, workshops, residencies and vibrant cultural events for its members and the public. On picturesque Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts, RNAC operates three exhibition spaces, open to the public for free, The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck (6 Wonson Street); The Salted Cod Arthouse (53 Rocky Neck Ave.), a partnership gallery and café; and Cove Gallery (37 Rocky Neck Ave.), open seasonally in the former gallery of local artists Gordon and Judith Goetemann. Check the website, www.rockyneckartcolony.org, for hours, openings and special events. For more information, see the website or call 978-515-7004.
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Local Author Dan Duffy Uncovers 50-Year-Old Family Mystery in Powerful New Memoir, In Search of Brother Rich. Hosted at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck on Thursday, June 12 from 7-8:30pm. The Reading and Book Signing is FREE and OPEN to the public, donations to Rocky Neck Art Colony are appreciated.
Part memoir, part true-crime investigation, one man’s lifelong search for his missing brother takes readers deep into the mystery, memory, and meaning of family.
After five decades of searching, local author Dan Duffy has released In Search of Brother Rich, a gripping and deeply personal nonfiction account of his quest to solve the decades-old mystery surrounding his older brother’s disappearance.
In December 1970, Rich Duffy, a Vietnam War veteran seeking peace and healing, vanished near the banks of the Rio Grande River after moving to a commune in Corrales, New Mexico. He was never seen again.
What followed was a fifty-year journey—equal parts detective work, soul-searching, and devotion. In his new book, Duffy shares, for the first time, the painstaking investigation he undertook to uncover what happened to his brother. From retracing Rich’s final steps to finding and interviewing members of his communal family, In Search of Brother Rich reveals both the unraveling of a mystery and the resilience of a brother’s love.
“In Search of Brother Rich is the truest thing I’ve ever written,” says Duffy. “It’s my attempt to honor my brother, to give voice to his story, and maybe—just maybe—help others who are still searching for something lost.”
With vivid storytelling, emotional depth, and a relentless commitment to uncovering the truth, In Search of Brother Rich is a story for anyone who has ever longed for answers, lost someone too soon, or held onto hope against the odds.
The book is now available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook formats through Amazon: https://a.co/d/ggZ9cAZ
About the Author Dan Duffy and his wife Helene have been innkeepers at The Beech Tree B&B for the past fourteen years. He is a docent at the Cape Ann Museum and a member of the Sandy Bay Yacht Club. He has spent much of his life investigating the mystery surrounding his brother’s disappearance. In Search of Brother Rich is his second memoir; he published his first book, Brother, Brother, in 2016.
About the Rocky Neck Art Colony Located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the Rocky Neck Art Colony is one of the oldest continuously operating art colonies in the United States. A vital part of the Cape Ann cultural community, RNAC fosters creativity and connection through exhibitions, programming, and artist residencies. As a nonprofit organization, RNAC is committed to supporting emerging and established artists while preserving the rich artistic heritage of the region.
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