My View of Life on the Dock
It’s been several years since I have attempted to photograph a high school football game, but I was allowed an opportunity last Friday night to experience GHS football. After a few false starts, I fell back into my groove and here are some of the results. Great job team! I’m no David Cox but he inspired me. I’d like to return sometime!
Free, All-Ages Event Celebrates Digital Creativity, Local Innovation and Practical Technology
Saturday, October 17, 2026 | 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Sawyer Free Library | 2 Dale Avenue | Gloucester, MA
GLOUCESTER, MA — The Sawyer Free Library Tech Expo: A Day of Digital
Discovery invites the community to bring their curiosity to a fun, free, community event celebrating the past, present and future of technology on Saturday, October 17th from 10 am to 4 pm. The Tech Expo showcases the Library’s growing technology offering —including lendable devices, digital learning programs, and new technology tools in the Digital Learning
Lab—while connecting residents with community partners using technology in innovative and practical ways.
Through hands-on demonstrations, a digital musical performance, exhibitions, and activities, the Tech Expo is designed for people of all ages and experience levels to build confidence with technology, discover new resources, and see how technology supports learning, creativity, connection, and everyday life. Visitors are encouraged to drop in, experiment, and discover something new.
“We’re excited to highlight how the Library supports the technology of today through our Tech Petting Zoo and Digital Learning Lab demonstrations, while also offering glimpses into the past and future of technology with our History of Technology exhibit and displays from cutting-edge community partners,” said Joella Allen, Digital Services Librarian. “People of all ages are welcome to come explore, ask questions, try something new, and be inspired by the technology available to them at their Library.”
TECH EXPO EVENTS
Timed Demonstrations
Digital Learning Lab
Explore the Library’s creative technology at demonstrations of the Audio Studios, 11 AM–12 PM, Digitization Station, 1–2 PM, and Digital Creation Stations, 2–3 PM. Registration required.
24/7 Pick-Up Lockers
Learn how to pick up requested Library materials anytime, day or night. Demonstrations offered at 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 2:30 PM.
Digital Music Performance
Musical Spotlight with SHRZ | 1–2 PM
Enjoy a musical performance by Jessie Joseph and his band SHRZ. He will then discuss how he uses technology as a tool to turn his musical tracks into finished products.
Community Partner Exhibit Hall | 10 AM–1 PM
Meet local organizations and discover how technology is being used in environmental monitoring, civic engagement, education, public services, and other areas of community life.
Travel Through Tech History | 10 AM–4 PM
Explore the evolution of everyday technology—from vinyl records and rotary phones to retro gaming systems and early personal computers. All Day Activities
Tech Petting Zoo | 10 AM–4 PM
Get hands-on with technology you can borrow from the Library. Try out eReaders, Chromebooks, internet hotspots, portable DVD players, and more, and ask questions before taking them home.
Next Gen Explorers: Kids & Teens | 10 AM–4 PM
Discover Tonies, AWE learning stations, STEM/STEAM kits, and other interactive technology, plus a Technology Scavenger Hunt and a colorful “retro” CD craft.
Digital Photobooth | 11 AM–3 PM
Take a free individual, family, or group photo and receive your digital image by text or email.
For a complete listing of events, visit https://sawyerfreelibrary.org/sawyer-free-library-tech-expo/
The event is free and open to the public. Some Digital Learning Lab demonstrations require advance registration.
About the Sawyer Free Library
For more than 175 years, the Sawyer Free Library has served Gloucester by providing
free and equitable access to resources that support the community’s educational,
cultural, and informational needs. Now open in its newly renovated and expanded
home, the Library offers innovative resources, programs, and spaces that inspire
learning, creativity, and community connection.
Learn more at sawyerfreelibrary.org
Media Contact:
Christine Armstrong
Sawyer Free Library
646.644.5037
I am taking liberty with my Good Morning Gloucester postings, and leaving Cape Ann for the Pacific Northwest, to cruise the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
Caitlin Smith Photos
Family Tree…
The leaves are falling and painting the landscape with color. At Rose Baker, there is a lot going on. Daily activities can be found by going to www.gloucester-ma.gov, clicking on Departments and scrolling down to the Council on Aging. You can see our newsletter or call 978-325-5812 to get on our mailing list. For events indicating registration, please stop by or call Natalia at the above phone number. Follow us on Facebook – Rose Baker Senior Center Gloucester
Special things going on:
October 5th and 19th – 1:00 – 3:00 -Old Salties
October 15th – 9:30 – Element Care Presentation (please register)
October 26th – 12:00 – Coffee with Elise
October 29th – 11:30 – Halloween Party Luncheon (please register)
October 29th – 4:00 – 7:00 – Energy Savings Fair. Lots of information, raffles, flu shots, pumpkin painting and pizza (please register)
*** No line dancing October 14th or 21st
*** Shine appointments start October 15th. The Open Enrollment period is October 15th – December 7th. Please call 978-325-5820 to make an appointment.
Movies on Thursdays at 12:30
October 8th – Skyfall with Daniel Craig, Javiar Bardem and Judy Dench
October 22nd – Touch of Class with George Segal and Glenda Jackson
October 29th – The Jerk with Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters (Begins at 1:15)
Seniors on the Go Bus – Please register
October 5th – Topsfield Fair $10 Senior Ticket Day – Tickets at the gate.
October 19th – J.C. Penny/Champions Pub
October 26th – Dollar Store at Liberty Tree/Depot Diner
Start your week with some seriously good deals! 🦞🍕
🦞 $13.99 + tax Lobster Roll
Served with chips & pickles!
🍕 16” Pizzas HALF PRICE
Limit of 4
🍕 Buy any 18” Pizza and get a 2nd 18” Pizza HALF PRICE!
Limit of 2
Come hungry and take advantage of these Monday specials! 🙌
Excludes gluten free
Excludes online orders
Pizza specials cannot be combined
It was quite the night at the GHS Football game Friday night vs Winthrop (congratulations Fishermen!). In addition to the home field win, the Homecoming King Finn Schrafft and Queen Allison Pelletrino were introduced. Also, the Gloucester High Hall of Fame honorees for 2026 gathered and honored at halftime. These include Peter Asaro (07); Sally (Unis) Bertolino (03); Elizabeth (Bertolino) Aylmer (87); Betsy Day (02); Bianca Giaclone (13); Geoffrey Kennedy (11); Coach Lou McGrath; Mark Michalisin (90); Caulin Rogers (11); Josh Salah (09); and the 2000 Indoor DMR Team. Congratulations to all! A proud night for Fishermen!
Second Life…
Nell Blaine (1922-1996) described herself as “defiant in joy.” After being stricken by polio at age 38, she often put down “every color I have” on her plate glass palette. Highly regarded as a gestural colorist, Blaine persistently bridged the delicacy of intimate interiors and salient aspects of nature through Abstract Expressionism for most of the late 20th century.
CAPE ANN COLLECTORS autumn show, “Affirmation of Life: Bold Color Fields and Kindred Spirits,” opens October 17-18, 1-5 p.m., celebrating life, color and joy – an intentional nod to Manship’s “HOCKNEY REPRODUCTION(S)” radiating intense, joyful, expressive chromatic hues. New ways of seeing, feeling and creating drove both Hockney and Blaine.
Kindred spirits with screenprint, sharpened color and graphic force, Blaine and Hockney brought inclusion and immediacy to image-making. Leaping from a dedicated sketching practice, this modern representation floods CAPE ANN COLLECTORS’ main gallery. On display are new master works by Nell Blaine and Theresa Bernstein, alongside artists William Meyerowitz, Ethel Louise Paddock, and Erma Wheeler (all 55 works on view).
Join CAPE ANN COLLECTORS’ autumn celebration of accessible defiance!
Molly, Janet and Annie
CAPE ANN COLLECTORS
474 Washington Street, Gloucester, MA
Ann Ziergiebel, Owner
Janet P. Ware, Director
Molly Anderson, Gallery Manager
Appointments welcome: 978-430-0414
Make game day even better with some seriously good deals!
🦞 $16.99 + tax Lobster Roll
Served with chips & pickles!
🍕 Buy any 18” Pizza and get the 2nd 18” Pizza HALF PRICE!
Limit of 2 per customer
🍕 16” Pizzas HALF PRICE!
Limit of 4 per customer
Perfect for feeding the family, the football crew, or just treating yourself this Sunday! 🙌
Excludes gluten free
Excludes online orders
Pizza specials cannot be combined
🏈 Come hungry and enjoy your Sunday with us!
GloucesterCast 854 Livestream Taped 10/4/26
Audio Podcast Click Here-
Video Podcast Click here-
This beautiful sight appeared after a brief shower Friday afternoon. Thank you FOB Susan LaRosa for sharing her view with me. Magnificent!
What if riding a horse wasn’t about perfect circles, perfect posture, or simply telling a horse what to do?
What if it was about learning to feel, listen, breathe and connect?
Holistic Natural Horsemanship offers a beautiful, non-traditional way to experience riding—one where relationship comes first.
You’ll begin by learning the language of the horse: how they communicate, how they respond to your energy and body language, and how trust is created between horse and human.
Then we bring that connection into the saddle.
Instead of relying only on reins and physical cues, you’ll discover how subtle shifts in your breath, focus, intention, energy and body can become part of the conversation.
There is something incredibly freeing about realizing you don’t have to control a horse to ride one.
You can learn to communicate with them.
And when horse and human begin moving together with understanding and trust, riding becomes something more than a lesson.
It becomes a partnership.
A conversation.
A feeling of freedom.
* Private Holistic Riding & Natural Horsemanship Sessions
* Beginners Welcome
* Relationship First
* No traditional riding experience necessary
* Private boutique farm in Ipswich, Massachusetts
Come discover a softer, more connected way to be with horses — where horse and human meet in harmony.
Visit us at PeaceLoveHorse.com call or text 978-985-4592 or stop by my shop Glosta Grooves at 12 Rogers Street Friday or Saturday 11-4 and chat in person
