Category: Good Morning Gloucester

Sharing exciting news from Machaca on Rogers St. $3 Bar Bites Tuesday-Sunday from 4:30-5:30 with purchase of cocktail or margarita at the bar.

JANUARY 1, 2026 ~ SAWYER FREE LIBRARY

Please join the Sawyer Free Library on Thursday evening, January 8, from 5:30 to 6:30 pm for a conversation with Peter Swanson, acclaimed local author of Kill Your Darlings, The Kind Worth Killing, Eight Perfect Murders, and more. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session and an opportunity for book signings. Copies of Peter’s books will be available for purchase at the event courtesy of The Bookstore of Gloucester.

The event will take place in the Sawyer Free Library’s Community Room, located on the ground floor at 2 Dale Avenue. To register visit sawyerfreelibrary.org.

Peter Swanson is a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels, including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award and a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, and Her Every Fear, an NPR Book of the Year. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and his stories, poetry, and features have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Atlantic, Measure, The Guardian, The Strand Magazine, and Yankee Magazine.

In his latest novel, The Kind Worth Saving, Swanson revisits characters from The Kind Worth Killing, as a private investigator follows a possibly adulterous husband—only to discover that the twisted trail leads back to the woman who hired him.

A graduate of Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Emerson College, Swanson lives in Gloucester with his wife.

Here is some of what was happening (mostly outdoors) during the Holiday Season.

Tenacious…

A great visit Gloucester high school students.

Thank you for a warm write up.

Link to article

The concert page is at https://oldslooppresents.org/performance/the-rough-tumble-2025. A video of The two duos together performing performing Mallory Graham’s song “Farther Grasses” (Mallory is half of The Rough & Tumble)

This photo of the inner harbor, taken back in 2020, popped up on my phone the other day. I believe I took it before the beautiful lobster trap tree was moved to its current position at Solomon Jacobs Park and because the tree is missing from the photo. I’ve been lucky to look out my window this season and see the tree next to the Adventure. It’s been interesting to hear who prefers its new position to its former position on Main Street.

Hopping on the sharing our top favorites from the past year as we look forward to the New Year: here are my personal Top Ten from around Cape Ann in 2025. Some of these you will see in new Pat D’s Photos items when we reopen January 18 to celebrate our third anniversary. Thank to all of you for your continued support at 44 Main Street. If you have any thoughts on what you’d like to see on a new nightlight, print or notecard feel free to comment there or reach out.

Carrying On…

Sharing information regarding the start of the work at the Cut Bridge that could affect you: starting Wednesday Jan 7:

Out of the truck to capture this