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Photos of Rockport’s HarvestFest

Posted on by S.D. Kelly

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Great local food (steamed lobsters!), a beer tasting with brews from Cape Ann Brewing Co., cooking demonstrations with Frank McClelland, Laurie Lufkin, Christian Collins, Eric Lorden and Heather Atwood, hayrides, lots of scarecrows, local non profits, art activities for kids (including a Rockport Music-sponsored instrument making workshop) and great live music. Rockport’s HarvestFest was beautiful and a whole lot of fun. Cape Ann residents and visitors were able to celebrate the best of the season in one of the most beautiful towns in the New England. Many thanks to Esther Mathieu of Esther Mathieu Photography for documenting the day and allowing us to share her photographs!

Go to www.rockportartfestivals.com to stay in touch about upcoming events in downtown Rockport.

St. Ann School Auction Nov 4th

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Joey,
If at all possible would you please promote our Auction on Friday, November 4, 2011 at Cruiseport at 6:00 pm.?
Tickets are $30 per person and include hors d’oeuvres, plated chicken dinner, coffee, tea and dessert.  Cash bar is available.  Call St. Ann at 978 283 3455 for ticket information or stop by at 60 Prospect Street, Gloucester,MA.  We have something for everyone at every price point.  From grabs to vacations and everything in between.  Get some Christmas shopping finished early!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Dee McCormack

Thursday Night Blues Party @ The Rhumb Line ~ With Ricky “King” Russell and Ed Scheer

Posted on by Joanne

Listen up! This week is going to be very special. The last time Ricky Russell showed up, we all nearly had a heart attack! It was one of the best shows we’ve ever had. So tighten up your Kuyper Belt cuz we’re ready to blast off once again with Ricky at the helm. Not only that, but Edd “duodenum” Scheer is coming back too! These guys can melt the two-tone paint off your Edsel! We’ll be diving deep into the bowels of the blues to see what comes up. These guys are 100% natural with no added filler, gluten-free and wired for sound. Safe when taken as directed. Bring your cane and your dancing shoe!
And don’t forget the dinner special: nachos and choice of burritos for two at $18.Yum!

http://www.therhumbline.com/

Kim Smith Reminder

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

A full schedule is planned this week–fall plantings, the premiere of The Butterfly Garden at Willow, and my lecture in New Hampshire. Rather than cooking half the night away Wednesday evening, I planned ahead and spent the weekend making lots of treats for Thursday’s premiere. I hope you can come!!

Thursday morning’s lecture in Amherst, Butterfly Gardening, promises to be a joyful, and informative, program. This summer my Fujifilm x100 gave me many new photos worth including in my lecture series and I couldn’t resist creating an entirely new slide show. I sorted though thousands of new photos over the weekend. And now, to tackle the video footage shot this summer—a daunting task ahead, but one I am sure will be rewarding!

I hope you are warm and cozy and not without power. Sixty-degree temperatures are predicted for the weekend! New England weather—as the adage goes-so very predictably unpredictable!

Warmest wishes, Kim

Oriental Lily Casa Blanca (2)Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, WillowdaleMonarch emerging from chrysalis

Kim’s Blog: Kim Smith Designs

At The Shore, We Are All Children

Posted on by Marty Luster

The hurrying tumbling waves, quick-broken crests, slapping,
The strata of color’d clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint, away solitary by itself—the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud;
These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.

From There Was a Child Went Forth, Walt Whitman.

Shep Abbott Coincidentally Took a Picture Of A Sign Before It Went Missing and Asked Me To Post The Picture of Said Sign For Him

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Shep happened to have a picture of a sign he “noticed” before it was removed.  He asked me to post it. So here you go.

Shep writes-

I’m attaching a photo of a sign I noticed at Grant Circle which subsequently disappeared. I wonder who might have removed it. Perhaps you’d like to publish the photo with a query as to who might have removed it. Thanks ..

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Must have been some no good hippie with nothing better to do because he wasn’t at work.

What Do You Think?

Posted on by capeannpainter

What Do You Think?

Mass Produced Art in China.

Published: July 15, 2005
SHENZHEN, China – Zhang Libing has painted more van Goghs than van Gogh ever did.

At 26, Mr. Zhang estimates that he has painted up to 20,000 copies of van Gogh’s works in a paint-spattered third-floor garret here where freshly washed socks and freshly painted canvases dry side-by-side on the balcony.

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

Zhang Libing estimates that he has produced up to 20,000 copies of paintings by Van Gogh.

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