My View of Life on the Dock
My New Business Card
These just came in from Vistaprint. I think they do a good job and have great prices. The business card is a painting of the road to Niles Beach at Sunrise. I used Sharon Lowe’s photo as a reference. I gave Sharon the painting for her birthday a couple of years ago. It was a 4″x6″ Acrylic on paper.
Jim McKenzie presents check to Jonathan Pope at last night’s event held at the Elks Club
My high school art teacher The Great Kathy Hilliard has allowed me to hang my work at the school in the art wing. The show will be this coming Monday the 26th from 7 to 9. The school is located on Jerden’s lane in Rockport, Ma. The idea behind the show is to expose the students to where Rockport Art Alumni go artistically. This show consists of just my pieces, but hopefully in the future many other alums will paste the walls with their work.
The works hanging are a large collection of my abstract watercolor and abstract latex house paint pieces. The works will be for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to the art department.
Miss Hilliard’s art classes may have been one of the biggest influences in my life, so golly jeez it’s a treat to show my work there and give back a bit to the school. As many of you know the arts, theatre, and music departments are getting slammed with budget cuts time and again. I would argue that these three subjects may be one of the more important subjects to our cultural development as a country and simply as humans with a desire to express ourselves.
So come on out! There will be refreshments, great conversation, laughs, and plenty of of cool people(just like yourself).
Bring friends, family, grandma, pet goldfish, the kids, and anybody else that might be excited to see some abstract art.
I hope to see you all there.
Thanks and have a great day!
Chris Wood
p.s. Happy Early Spring by the way.
Driving a car may seem to be a necessary part of life, however, owning a vehicle and holding a driver’s license are privileges that come with a great deal of responsibility.
On Friday, March 30, at 10:00 a.m. the Council on Aging will offer a MassDot RMV program, at the Rose Baker Senior Center, which will bring information that is geared especially for the senior drivers.
We welcome guest speaker, Michele Ellicks, Community Outreach Coordinator for the Registry of Motor Vehicles to present the program entitled "Shifting Gears." In this three-section program, Ms. Ellicks will discuss issues facing senior drivers, the Commonwealth’s rules of the road, recent changes that have taken place at the RMV, as well as the warning signs of unsafe driving.
The first two segments will also include information about:
· Disability Placards and Plates: the requirements and how to apply for a handicap placard or plate and the laws governing handicap parking as well as a Massachusetts identification card, the most recent research concerning mature drivers and alternative forms of transportation available in our community.
· Road Scholar: this will instruct drivers on the rules of the road with an emphasis on safety and awareness.
The second part, also for family members and care-givers will include:
· Driving Decisions: Advice for elder drivers, caregivers, and family members on how to transition from driver seat to passenger seat.
Please join us on March 30, pre-registration is requested by calling 978 281-9765, light refreshments will be served.
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Reality TV comes to Gloucester for ‘Wicked Tuna’ – The Boston Globe
That the Old Annisquam Customs House on River Road is also the site where Rudyard Kipling wrote parts of his 1897 novel Captains Courageous, which follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure’s, beginning with the November 1896 edition.
The book’s title comes from the ballad “Mary Ambree”, which starts, “When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt”. Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers, published in The Times of November 23, 1892.
The last photo is of a pot beside the Customs House that was once used for boiling down whale blubber to oil used for the lighting of lamps. Whales were brought to the Customs House and cut up, then boiled down for their oil. Whales are now valued in New England for their sheer majesty and whale watches are a popular excursion and business, but whale hunting and harvesting was once a major industry in the colonies. During the 18th and 19th century, whaling was a lucrative business with whale oils used for lighting and whalebone used for many other products. Hundreds of ships left New England harbors each year on dangerous whaling expeditions that sometimes took them all over the globe. With the emergence of crude oil, interest in whale oil plummeted around 1850 and the industry thankfully went into demise.
Another very interesting tip courtesy of Allen Estes.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
nuff said….
Found on Youtube
What a great idea!
An Artist uses Google Street View.
This short video featuring Kentucky Painter Bill Guffey is part of an interview recorded in August 2009 at the Gallery at 916. It very quickly covers the aspect of using Google Street View technology to travel the world virtually in search of artistic reference.
One of the main thoughts behind the process is to aid those artists with physical and mental disabilities which limit their ability to get outside and paint.
Recorded by WKYU PBS television station in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
“Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”
Sir Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett, (1948 - )
Knighted in 2009 for his contributions to literature, English fantasy and science fiction writer Pratchett is among the most widely read authors in western popular culture. Known primarily for his Discworld series, he also has a long history of collaborations with other authors including Neil Gaiman, (Good Omens) and Larry Niven, (Rainbow Mars). His erudite and witty style is flavored by a solid knowledge of astronomy and physics. In 2009 Pratchett announced that he was suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease, and has been active in the search for a cure.
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That the white chimneys with black rings or bands on many of the oldest houses are indicative of homes that supported the British? This was called a Tory chimney, and it was a secret sign that Loyalists occupied the house.
Loyalists were North American colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolutionary War. They were often referred to as Tories, Royalists or King’s Men. After the war those Loyalists that did not want to remain in the new USA settled in what would become Canada and were given the hereditary title of United Empire Loyalists. Their colonial opponents, who supported the Revolution, were called Rebels, Patriots or Whigs, but generally just thought of themselves as free Americans. From the Patriot’s perspective, the Loyalists were traitors who would not support the rebel’s cause and collaborated with what they thought was an oppressive British government. Whereas from the Loyalist perspective, they were the honorable ones who stood by the Empire and the Crown and considered the American rebels as the traitors to the mother country.
Today you still see white chimneys with black rings, but it is probably more for the aesthetics than any secret sign.
The tip for this post came from Allen Estes who I ran into working on this old home in Annisquam. In addition to his music knowledge, he is a wealth of those great little known facts I (and you) enjoy so much.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
Effective immediately, the public woods within the City of Gloucester and the Norton Memorial Woods at the end of Revere Street are ordered closed until further notice due to dryness and danger of fires within the woodlands of our community.
I just love this band and could never tire of hearing them. One of these days I’ll make it to this venue. There is just so much goin on in town tonight I can’t…Happy trails to you Bandit Kings.
In the Proximity of Reservoir Road.
Sunset 03/22/2012 from Renata Greene
A departing Goldman Sachs exec’s broadside in The New York Times has made him the talk of Wall Street. From Richard Nixon to Rosie O’Donnell, here are some of the best bridge-burning moments ever.
Hi Joey –
Here is a complete auction booklet for Saturday’s Event to Benefit Newell Stadium at the Elks at Bass Rocks.
Please encourage your GMG readers to come to the event to support this worthy cause for our community!
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.
Tickets can be purchased at Jeff’s Variety, Destino’s, Cape Ann Savings Bank & Christine’s Variety.
If anybody has any questions, they can give me a call at 978-290-6035 or I can be reached by email at newelldonations@gmail.com
A small group of people came together a few short weeks ago to plan this event and we truly thought it was next to impossible to pull off.
Our community has been very generous with their time, talents and donations! The support has been overwhelming.
Now we just need to get people to the event to place their bids!! Please come and help us cross the finish line and meet our goal!!
Thanks!
Kristin Michel
One of The Auction Items-
NASA Launching 5 Rockets in 5 Minutes Early Friday:
How to Watch the light show
From Space.com;
“NASA is once again hoping to launch five rockets in just over five minutes — a space barrage that promises to put on a spectacular midnight light show of luminescent vapor trails above the U.S. East Coast — but only if Mother Nature cooperates.
After a series of delays due to bad weather and a technical glitch, NASA is now aiming to launch the five-rocket barrage Friday (March 23) after weather concerns thwarted earlier attempts this week.
The sky display may puzzle and amaze some unsuspecting observers, so before you call your local news or police, here is why this is happening and when you may see it.”
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