Category: Art
Sargent House Museum Staircase Detail
The Sargent House Museum on Middle and Main Streets is rich in architectural detail. For the second part of the video tour check this page tomorrow morning at 8:00AM
Sargent House Museum Staircase Detail, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Sargent House Museum Video Tour
If you are like me you’ve walked past this place thousands of times, looked up on the hill and wondered what the hell goes on up there. Well wonder no longer my loyal readers, because your boy Joey once again gets you unfettered access with a four part video tour and pics of places that you don’t get to go when you go on the regular tour (places like the attic and stuff).
It’s what we do here at GMG. Bring you behind the scenes, we roll back the curtains, peek under the hood and bring this stuff to you, stuff you might never have had access to. It’s what we pride ourselves on, getting you an insider peek. So buckle up for another video series in another one of Gloucester’s crown jewels- The Sargent House Museum.
Barb Silberman and Judith Nast Show GMG Readers What’s Up At The House On The Hill
From The Sargent House Museum Website-
“Welcome to The Sargent House Museum. For over 100 years, the Sargent House Museum was the home of sea merchants, patriots and community leaders. A fine example of high-style Georgian domestic architecture, the house was built in 1782 for Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), a philosopher, writer and an early advocate of women’s equality.
Visitors to the Sargent House Museum learn about the early history of Gloucester from its beginnings as a farming and lumbering outpost to its evolution into the country’s premier seaport. Visitors will also see a collection of original works by the great portrait painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) descendant of the Sargent family, who loved the house and its ties to Colonial Gloucester.”
To Learn More About The Sargent House Click This Text For The Website
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Happy Earth Day 2009!
These cool decorated grocery bags were at Shaw’s today thanks to kids who celebrated Earth Day yesterday!
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Gorton’s Seafoods Gallery At Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
Getting pictures of stuff behind glass is a challenge, especially without a tripod and with funky lighting but this gives you a little glimpse of some of Gloucester’s fishing past which has been preserved and displayed here. You just gotta go check out the exhibit at The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center. These are original advertisement and packaging from Gorton’s back in the day. There’s just a ton to look at and discover here.
Gorton’s Seafoods Gallery At Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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The Proposal Trailer and Movie Set Transformation
The Proposal a movie starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds which was shot in various locations around Cape Ann last summer has a couple of trailers out-
Here are some of the pictures I took of the filming across from our dock last summer-
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/the-proposal-set/
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/on-location-thanks-to-damon/
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/proposal-movie-filming-update/
This is what the filming location looked like before the movie crew transformed it into a set for the movie-
This is what the same building looked like after the transformation-
Here are some of the locations that the film was shot from IMDB-
- 225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Bearskin Neck, Rockport, Massachusetts, USA
- (internet cafe)
- Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
- Manchester, Massachusetts, USA
- Myopia Hunt Club – 435 Bay Road, South Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
- (woods)
- Newport, Rhode Island, USA
- Rockport, Massachusetts, USA
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Lois Hertzler Presents Her Work At Local Colors
Lois does some fantastic macro photography and her work would compliment any shore side home. You can see her stuff at Local Colors on Main Street.
Lois Hertzler Presents Her Work At Local Colors, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Cape Ann Copper Works
Cape Ann Copper Works, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
There are many copper fish for sale at the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center.
Readers from the past may remember my feelings about the fish that people buy to display in their local home.
If you have an attachment to tropical fish or have sentimental feelings about a place you visited far away with exotic or tropical fish then that would be a reason to buy and display one. But if you are buying fish art for your Northeast home, thinking that any fish is local , please do just a tiny bit of research and discover what fish are caught around these waters- like cod, haddock, tuna, stripers and such.
I find it funny when folks put up a huge mahi mahi on their wall thinking they are decorating with a North East theme.
The fish in the picture is tagged as a haddock but from the spots on it I’d say it looks more like a codfish.
It is the work of Dana and Jeremy Hatch from Cape Ann Copper Works. Their workshop is just around the corner at 34 Mt Pleasant Ave in East Gloucester.
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Pete Mondello Hard At Work While Katherine Richmond Paints The Handline Dory At Geno’s Dory Shop
Here we see Pete cozied up to the wood stove while Katherine applies another coat to the inside of the Handline Dory which will be raffled off to support the International Dory Races.
Pete Mondello Hard At Work While Katherine Richmond Paints The Handline Dory At Geno’s Dory Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Katherine Richmond Painting The Handline Dory For The Raffle
The Handline Dory That The International Dory Racing will be raffling off is being painted here by Katherine Richmond. Of course the dory is being painted Dory Buff, the traditional dory color. If you don’t have your raffle tickets yet click this text to find out where how to win Tickets are only $5
Katherine Richmond Painting The Handline Dory For The Raffle, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Entrance To Saunders Section Of Sawyer Free Library
I love the color of the overhead in the entranceway to the Saunders section of The Sawyer Free Library which Steve Goodick and Mikey DeFalco have been painstakingly and carefully renovating back to it’s former glory with generous help from the benefactors The Dunsky Foundation. I’ll be getting a more in depth interview with Michael DeFalco this week.
Entrance To Saunders Section Of Sawyer Free Library, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center Gift Shop
If you are looking for a Mother’s or Father’s day gift with a Gloucester flair, look no further than the GMHC gift shop. There are literally hundreds of Gloucester themed items for sale.
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Signs of Spring!
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Sharon’s Photos – Slideshow
Click on the photo above for a slideshow of some of my stuff. —Sharon
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Virginia Townsend Hand Painted Pottery At Local Colors
For More From The Artists At Local Colors In Gloucester Click This Text
Virginia Townsend Hand Painted Pottery At Local Colors, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Walker Creek Furniture Table With Milk Wash Finish
How Walker Creek furniture is made
We use mortise-and-tenon joinery instead of dowels, and smooth our boards with a hand plane rather than a belt sander. We use only solid wood, no chip-board or veneer. While most furniture is finished with a sprayed-on polyurethane or colored lacquer, we finish every piece by hand using linseed oil, shellac and milk paint, just like 18th century furniture, so the surface feels as good as it looks. And … Click the text to be transported to the Walker Creek Furniture Website, read how they build furniture and where teh name comes from.
Walker Creek Furniture Table With Milk Wash Finish, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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GH Easter 2009
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Tonight! WPA Murals Display and Ice Cream!
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Robert Hanlon Painting
Robert Hanlon puts many of his paintings on wood and uses the textures and natural colors of the wood in the paintings. Here is one of many fine pieces by Robert At Walker Creek Furniture. You can see more from his collection by clicking this text
Robert Hanlon Painting, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Custom Table At Walker Creek Furniture In Essex
Custom Table At Walker Creek Furniture In Essex, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 