Over the Bridge-Essex
Category: Art
Beautiful Industry- Salted Herring Black and White
They almost seem pretty when done in black and white.
Salted Herring Black and White, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Good Harbor Marsh
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Geno Mondello’s Dory Shop
This is the handline dory that Geno is building for the Dory Auction to benefit the Gloucester International Dory budget.
Geno Mondello’s Dory Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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This Just In From Kat Valentine-
In honor of this area’s remarkable literary heritage, I started a web site, Literary Gloucester, a couple years ago that pays tribute to writers in essays by writers. The site was just a labor of love on my part and I was pleased to receive three essays by Peter Anastas to get it started. He wrote essays on his friends Charles Olsen and Vincent Ferrini, as well as one on Lowell’s Jack Kerouac.
My dear friend the late Mark S. Williams wrote an essay on Andre Dubus III that was added next. Then Theatre in the Pines Artistic Director and writer Nan Webber added an essay on T. S. Eliot. Then the site languished. I have been working on an essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne but I can’t seem to finish it.
So I have decided to renew my effort to make this site happen by issuing an open invitation to writers from the Cape Ann area to participate. What I ask is that you email kathleen an essay on a writer whose work has influenced, inspired, or in some other way gained your admiration. Please include a photograph of yourself and, if possible, one of the writer you are writing about. I would prefer that the subject of your article be from the area (at least New England) or who wrote here.
In exchange for your participation I’ll add a brief bio and links to your books and where they can be purchased. I hope this will add to this project, promote the writing of contemporary writers, and create resource on the world-wide web for those interested in New England authors.
Thanks for reading. -Kathleen Valentine
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GMG/CABI St Paddy Day Window Display Contest Winners Video
Thanks to all those who participated, it really brightened up Main Street. Main Street is going to be hopping this summer between the new construction at the Former Gray’s Building, The Block Parties, The New Ice Cream/Candy Shop, The Joke Shop. There is some significant investment going on Downtown.
Gloucester Rocks, and this summer it’s going to be the best one yet. I can feel the excitement starting to build with the nice weather!
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Red Skiff Eggs and Hash
Note the face depicted with the food? The bread looks like eyebrows, eggs are the eyes and the orange is the smile! Stevie is making breakfast into an art form.
Rewd Skiff Eggs and Hash, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Good Morning ahhh Essex
I know it’s not Gloucester but I figured it was close enough. This was taken from near the Farnhams parking lot.
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From Henry Ferrini- PBS to air Polis is This
SEMINAL POET FEATURED IN FILM ON WGBH
POLIS IS THIS – Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (‘2007, 57m) The film traces Charles Olson’s process of self-discovery and makes it clear why Kerouac, Ginsberg and others traveled to the oldest fishing town in America to meet the father of literary post modernism.
A second-generation modernist and former political advisor to the administration of President F.D. Roosevelt, Olson forsook politics and turned to full-time writing in the final twenty-five years of his life. An outsized man of passionately held beliefs, expansive theories and ambitious projects, Olson was rector of the groundbreaking experimental art school Black Mountain College, Asheville, N.C. Today he is best known for his brilliant literary essays, letters and his massive epic The Maximus Poems. Devoting his life to preserving Gloucester, Massachusetts from suburban overdevelopment, Olson created a template for the artist as social and political activist. He was a huge influence on the Beat scribes of the 1950s and is credited with coining the term “postmodern.”
In Olson’s world the universal is the local without walls. Filmmakers Henry Ferrini and Ken Riaf surpass the challenges of containing this giant and his ideas in cinematic form while expanding our awareness of the role of the poet in his community. A generous amount of Olson footage, striding his 6’8” corpus about his beautifully photographed polis or engaging in the teacher’s art, we also meet the polis of this film: the artists – Amiri Baraka, Robert Creeley, Diane di Prima, Vincent Ferrini, Michael Rumaker, Pete Seeger, Ed Sanders, John Sinclair, Anne Waldman, Jonathan Williams, – and the locals who knew him. Hosted, after an Olsonesque fashion, by John Malkovich.
In this time of great change, Polis speaks of the will to change. Olson understood that the local was a deep source for understanding ourselves and solving contemporary problems Gloucester, Massachusetts as his lens. He wanted others to dig into their own place and encouraged us to think and act locally. Just imagine what shape we would be in if all our local banks didn’t sell their mortgages to the big boys? We all have something to learn from this overlooked poet.
National Poetry Month Presentation
Monday, March 30, 9pm New Jersey Network –2
Tuesday, April 1 8pm New Jersey Network –2
Tuesday, April 1 8pm WHUT, Washington, D.C
Sunday, April 5 7pm WGBH, Boston, MA
Friday, April 24 2:30am WNET, NYC
Friday, April 24 1pm WHYY, Philadelphia
contact: Henry Ferrini www.polisIsthis.com
978-281-2355 henry.ferrini@verizon.net
Complete Screening Dates & Times http://polisisthis.com/screenings.html
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Dory Whirlygig With Official International Dory Racing Colors Video
Geno Mondello Demonstrates His Hand Crafted Dory Whirlygig
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Geno Mondello’s Dory Shop Whirlygigs
Geno sells these for $55. A bargain for something hand crafted, painted, and local. It’s even painted the official colors of the Lunenberg/Gloucester Dorys. There was one left last week so hurry down and get it! Look for the last part of the Geno Mondello interviews coming tonight.
Geno Mondello’s Dory Shop Whirlygigs, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Cruising the Back Shore
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Gloucester’s Poet Laureate John Ronan Part III
Part Three of The John Ronan Video Interview
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Things To Do- Twinderella
This from buddy and co Block Party Committee member Erika Hansen-
“Please forward to your peeps. This play is very kid- and adult-friendly!“
Thanks! Erika
Come see East Gloucester School’s Performance of Twinderella!
March 26 at 7p; March 27 at 7p; March 28 at 2p
Tickets $5
If you’ve never heard of Twinderella, here’s a little background information about this very funny and entertaining play:
Did you know that Cinderella has a long lost twin brother named Bob living in the same kingdom with his own wicked stepfamily? The separated siblings have enlisted the services of the Fairy Godmother, the Godfather and two enchanted gerbils to help wile their way into the exclusive royal festivities of Wychwood under-Ooze. Bob has his sights set on Prince Percy’s all-kingdom baseball game, while Cinderella eyes the birthday gala for Princess Petunia. When the two strangers disappear at midnight after Cinderella hits a game winning homerun, the search is on to find the feet that fit the glass slipper and the muddy cleat!
This hilarious musical send-up of “Cinderella” will delight actors and audiences alike!!
More details in the attached flyer. Hope to see you there!”
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Michael Wall At The American Ship Model Gallery Part III
Examples Of Extreme Miniature Models At The American Ship Model Gallery
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American Marine Model Gallery
The challenge for anyone trying to take a picture of a schooner or any other masted vessel is getting up close for all the detail while keeping the mast and or bowsprit in the frame. You can elect to take a picture of the entire boat or you can take portions, leaving out the bowsprit and/or mast. For our purposes here I wanted to take you in close so you could see just how detailed these ship models are. If this picture was taken of the entire boat you wouldn’t get the up close details.
As always you can click on the picture and select “all sizes” to see the larger version of this picture.
American Marine Model Gallery, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Gloucester’s Poet Laureate John Ronan Part II
Part II Of The GMG Interview With John Ronan
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18th Century French Bomb Catch Model At The American Marine Model Gallery
This 18th century French bomb catch is an example of a natural wood ship model versus one that would be painted, copper sheathed or other type of model. This type of ship model shows shows the wood on wood construction.
American Marine Model Gallery, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Michael Wall At The American Ship Model Gallery Part II
Michael Wall Displays Different Styles Of Ship Models In This Second Installment Of Our Video Interview
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Gloucester’s Poet Laureate John Ronan Part I
John Ronan tells us what it means to be Gloucester’s Poet Laureate, the responsibilities that come with the title and more.
You can visit his website- TheRonan.org by clicking this text
Good Morning Gloucester 