Thanks so much for all the help you have given us with our fundraisers this year. I was wondering if you’d mind promoting this contest that we are in starting on Wednesday.
The Boston Herald in collaboration with the fine folks at Ernie Boch Jr.’s "Music Drives Us" organization have selected The Docksiders as finalists in the first ever online battle of the bands called Bandemonium. We are semi finalists in the contest and now its up to the community to vote so that we can move on to the finals.
The Contest starts on Wednesday for us and runs through Monday at 11:59pm. If you could promote this for us during the event it would be great. The best part, no one leaves their computers!
Held at: Rockport Art Association, 12 Main Street , Rockport
R.S.V.P.: Tom Queeney at (978) 309-1232
May 12, 2011 6:00 p.m.
Wills, Trusts, Health Care Proxies, Power of Attorney and Guardianships
Join Edwin Holmes, Esq. for a timely discussion on estate planning and trusts.
May 19, 2011 6:00 p.m.
Time to Take Charge and Make Decisions!
Miriam Pett, OTR/L MS CMC will present a dynamic and enthusiastic discussion on exploring options on living independently and guiding families through the issues of aging.
Hosted by Rockport National Bank’s Trust Department
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Spring Greetings from Annisquam Arts! We are entering our 17th season with an exciting array of workshops to inspire your child’s imagination. We will have fun, create and explore while investigating a wide range of art materials in a multidisciplinary studio environment. Classes include painting, drawing, sculpture, bookmaking and mixed media for ages 6-14. We also offer a photography program fro ages 10-16.
We are located at the spacious Plum Cove School, just minutes from Plum Cove Beach. Workshops meet four days a week, Monday-Thursday, from 9AM-1PM, photography classes meet in the afternoon from 3PM-7PM. The session begins on June 27 and runs thru August 11. For more information, and to register, please visit our website at www.annisquamarts.com
That Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth’s natural history? In 1837 Agassiz was the first to scientifically propose that the Earth had been subject to a past ice age. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel. Later, he accepted a professorship at Harvard University. In addition to Agassiz Rock in Manchester, a crater on Mars and a promontorium on the Moon are also named in his honour, as well as a number of mountains, glaciers, glacial lakes, and animal species. He was also the professor of Alpheus Hyatt of Annisquam who founded the Hyatt Seaside Laboratory, which later became the Woods Hole Marine Laboratory.
Big and Little Agassiz Rocks are dramatic examples of giant boulders plucked from bedrock and carried far away by the last glacier. A short loop trail leads you up Beaverdam Hill where Little Agassiz Rock emerges as a giant granite monolith silhouetted against the sky. A short distance away, other boulders lie perched on the edge of this glaciated upland. Below, in a small shrub swamp, rests 30-foot-tall Big Agassiz Rock. No one knows how far below the ground it is buried.
As the glaciers scoured this landscape, the mass of bedrock forming the hill proved more resistant than the surrounding soil, forcing the bottom of the glacier up and over the hill. The north side was smoothed and the south side left steep and rugged as the glacier broke off chunks of rock as it passed.
Trails
1-mile loop trail (moderate hiking) takes in both Big and Little Agassiz Rocks. Following long periods of rain, when the water table is high, the immediate area surrounding Big Agassiz Rock can be flooded.
When to Visit
Open year-round, daily, sunrise to sunset. Allow a minimum of 1 hour. On School Street (Exit 15) exit off 128 heading toward Essex, ½ mile from highway on right you will see sign and small parking area.
Joey, I start my day or end my day (sometimes both) with Good Morning Gloucester. It’s my morning cup of coffee or evening cup of tea, and I couldn’t live without it. It reminds me of where I want to be and where I will be come the warm weather. Has been thus for the last 40 years. When we’re fully retired, maybe we’ll be able to stay, not cross the bridge for jobs in New York. Meantime, I read your blog, look at the wonderful pictures and sometimes at my own. Here’s one I thought you might like, sky from a boat out near Ten Pound Island. Hope you like it. Best, Jane Paznik-Bondarin
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That Louie McGrath and Peder Wonson of McGrath Plumbing in Gloucester are great plumbers and very brave? The stove that you see Peder working on (that Louie also worked on before turning his attention to the hot water heater), is a circa 1950’s relic that always smelled of gas and wouldn’t light. In no time at all, these brave men (I applaud anyone who will mess around behind or on a gas stove, especially one of this vintage) had the baby working with no smell of gas. There is also now hot water. If you need plumbing work done, these guys are professional, very friendly and nice, and quick (something you really want a plumber to be).
I don’t have photos, but also want to big up electrician, James Kenley. Jim has been so good about making recommendations and ensuring that everything electrical was working in good order, and even climbed up a 10’ ladder to take down the ceiling fan blades (which were so nasty I wouldn’t have dared turn the thing on for fear of scattering ages old dust and black gunk all over the gallery), so I could clean them.
Lastly, I have to send out big kudos to Niki Ahearn, owner of Madfish Grill and the galleries at Madfish Wharf. This woman calls herself disorganized; however, she is a widowed mom of two boys; has a restaurant to get ready to open next weekend (with a surprise new addition – to be announced), as well as all the gallery spaces to get rented (and they all are) and needed repairs made, and she is opening a shop of her own. She has been just great to deal with and get to know, is very responsive and just a sweetheart. I also want to mention Corey (who has a brand new one month old baby, Dahlia) and is working his butt off getting repairs done under a tight deadline; also Lindsey and Chef Jeff who I had the pleasure of meeting yesterday in the restaurant.
I apologize to Joey and everyone that my posts have been so sketchy lately, but I’ve been really busy getting Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester gallery ready for opening on May 18. Hope you all have Rocky Neck, on your radar for some amazing happenings, art, food and fun this summer. And did you know that by summer’s end, you will know more about every nook and cranny of Rocky Neck than you would have thought possible?
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