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Hi Joe,

Can you help spread the call for teen volunteers at the Trustees Cape Ann properties this week?  They’re still looking for teens to volunteer at Halibut Point State Park, Agassiz Rock , Ravenswood Park & Coolidge Point Reservation http://northshorekid.com/event/cape-ann-conservation-crewhands

They’re also hosting a Earth Day Coastal Cleanup next Friday, April 22, 2011 for volunteers of any age – families are encouraged to come! Coastal Cleanup is going to target: Halibut Point State Park & Coolidge Point Reservation.

Thanks,
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid

Hi Joe,

My name is Renee Soucy and I am responding to your post about the Boston Marathon. I should also mention that I am a former college roommate and future bridesmaid of Amy Ciaramitaro, who I believe is your cousin!

I am running my second Boston Marathon this year for Perkins School for the Blind. As a charity runner, I am required to raise $3,250 for my charity. In addition to training for the Marathon, I’m a full-time graduate student at Bentley University. For the past few months I’ve been volunteering at Perkins’ Early Learning Center to help take the children on field trips.

I thought I’d check with you to see if you could maybe throw in a plug to my fundraising website! It is: http://support.perkins.org/goto/rsoucy I still have a little over $900 left to raise, so it would be a great help!

Let me know ifyou have any questions!

Renee

That Framer, Ylva Callewaert and Sculptor, Bela Lyon Pratt have something in common?

Bela Lyon Pratt (maternal grandfather of Cynthia Kennedy Sam of Annisquam and Cambridge), sculpted this ideal figure of Artemis, also the namesake of Ylva’s frameshop. The photo is of the clay model, completed in 1908, which was then cast in bronze and now resides at the New Britain Museum of Art in New Britain, CT.  That same year Pratt created the gold Indian Head $5 and $2.50 coins known as the “Pratt coins”, which feature an unusual intaglio Indian head, the U.S. mint’s only recessed design in circulation. 

Bela Lyon Pratt (December 11, 1867 – May 18, 1917) was an American sculptor born in Norwich, Connecticut. At 16 Pratt began studying at the Yale University School of Fine Arts.  After graduating from Yale, he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York where he took classes from William Merritt Chase, Kenyon Cox, Francis Edwin Elwell , and most important, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who became his mentor. After a short stint in Saint-Gaudens’ private studio, Pratt traveled to Paris, where he trained with sculptors Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu and Alexandre Falguière at the École des Beaux-Arts.

In 1892, he returned to the United States to create two large sculptural groups representing The Genius of Navigation for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He also produced sculptures for the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. In 1893, he began a 25-year career as an influential teacher of modeling in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During this time, Pratt sculpted a series of busts of Boston’s intellectual community, including Episcopal priest Phillips Brooks (1899, Brooks House, Harvard University), Colonel Henry Lee (1902, Memorial Hall, Harvard University), and Boston Symphony Orchestra founder Henry Lee Higginson (1909, Symphony Hall, Boston). He became an associate of the National Academy in 1900.

A retrospective exhibition of 125 of his sculptures was held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the spring of 1918.  Some of his public statues include Statue of Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem, Massachusetts, Statue of Edward Everett Hale in Boston Public Garden, and Nathan Hale statue at Fort Nathan Hale in New Haven, Connecticut. 

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Hi Joe,

Since you’ve been so supportive of indie writers and indie publishing I had to tell you this. My book of knitted lace shawl designs, The Mermaid Shawl & other Beauties: Shawls, Cocoons & Wraps is now available for Kindle on Amazon and is their #1 Top Rated Lace Knitting book as well as the #20 Top Rated Needlework book for Kindle. It is also currently the #6 Best Seller in Lace Knitting, the #20 Best Seller in Needlework and the #47 Best Seller for KNITTING! All on Kindle. Here is the link: The Mermaid Shawl & other Beauties for Kindle

It has also gotten lots of compliments for all the gorgeous photographs of Gloucester. (That’s Ten Pound Island and the Lannon on the cover.)

Click pic for GB Shaw’s Wikipedia Page

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”

George Bernard Shaw   (1856-1950)                       Suggested by Anne Robinson

Author of more than 60 plays, including “Pygmalion” on which “My Fair Lady” was based, Shaw also wrote literary and political criticism, novels, short stories and essays, many featuring his thoughtfully  humorous outlook on life. An ardent and life-long Fabian socialist, he was a founder of the London School of Economics, as well as an early vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, and a supporter of eugenics.

Gregory R. Bover

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/arts/design/seaport-museum-seeks-berths-for-vessels.html?emc=eta1

This mentions that the Seaport Museum NY is in talks with the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center.

Thanks Brian for the tip

For further information, please contact

ewozny@essexma.org

Tick and Mosquito Lecture – Save the date!

A free "Tick Talk & Mosquito Questions:  In Your BackYard and

In Your Community," will be presented by Essex Board of Health.

The lecture will be held on Wednesday, May 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Manchester Essex Regional High School, 36 Lincoln Street, Manchester, MA.

Speakers will include: Alfred DeMaria, Jr., M.D., Medical Director, Bureau of Infectious Disease, Prevention, Response and Services State Epidemiologist, MA Department of Public Health and Esteban Cuebas-Incle, Ph.D., Entomologist, Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control and Wetland Management District.  Pre-registration is not required and all are welcome to attend.

GLOUCESTER, MA—As recuperation from the March 4th, Pleasant St. fire continues, Cape Ann Animal Aid (CAAA) honors Detective Steve Mizzoni and Firefighter Daryl Wonson for their heroic efforts at the scene. The law firm of Schlichte and Johnstone was greatly affected by the fire and the neighboring Raymond Agler Gallery suffered significant water and smoke damage as well.  It was in this gallery that Mizzoni and Wonson rescued gallery owner Agler and partner Jack Carter’s cat Lulu.

Cape Ann Animal Aid presented the Humane Hero Award to both Mizzoni and Wonson in appreciation and gratitude for their actions on March 4, 2011.  Carter specifically thanked Detective Mizzoni for risking his own safety to rescue Lulu from the smoke-filled building.  CAAA echoes this thanks and applauds him for the compassion and courage he showed.

“We recognize Steve Mizzoni and Daryl Wonson as  humane heroes,” says Nancy Tarbox of CAAA, “and will commemorate this award with an honorary brick for them both at our new shelter.”

CAAA’s Buy a Brick Program allows donors to purchase a personalized brick to add to the new walkway or entryway of The Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter.  This new shelter, which is currently under construction, will be located at 4 Paws Lane in Gloucester.

For more information on the new shelter and the Buy a Brick Program please visitwww.capeannanimalaid.com or call the shelter at 978-283-6055.

Cape Ann Animal Aid is a non-profit, no kill organization dedicated to facilitating appropriate placement of adoptable animals and enhancing the lives of all companion animals by promoting respect and well-being through education and outreach.

Pathways for Children and Cape Ann Families will be hosting two free community/family events during school vacation week.  Wednesday, April 20^th: Earth Discovery Day. 10am-12:15pm Cape Ann Vernal Pond team will give a presentation on the exciting world of vernal ponds, including a closer look at snakes, frogs, salamanders, and other fun creatures.  Presentations will begin at 10am and 11:15am at the Cape Ann Families/Open Door meeting space, 28 Emerson Avenue.  Thursday, April 21^st: Night at the Movies. At 6pm we will be hosting a movie night here in the Pathways multi-purpose room, 29 Emerson Avenue.  We will be watching the Disney classic, “Dumbo,” and are inviting kids to come dressed as their favorite Disney character.  We’d love for you to join us for free!  *Please note that space is limited.  RSVP to Teby Wammack, Family Services Coordinator attwammack@pw4c.org or 978-578-2400 x110 to reserve your seat!

 

That Plum Cove Grind is not actually at Plum Cove, it is in Lanesville Center?  Lanesville, a lovely little village of Gloucester, that if a squirrel or turkey isn’t in the middle of the road to slow you down, you could pass right through and miss.  So if you are driving Washington Street from Gloucester to Rockport, or vice versa and have a hankering for a great cup of organic coffee, awesome fresh made soup or sandwich, or pastries, croissants and bread made on the premises, keep your eyes open and slow down as you enter Lanesville Center and look for 1064 Washington Street and the Plum Cove Grind awnings. 

Plum Cove Grind features Erik Sigrid’s (you know Erik, Gloucester born now living in VT, son of Sigrid Olson, artist of Rocky Neck Art Colony), microroasted fair trade, shade grown, Rainforest Alliance, organic Barista Beans.  And if you’re getting married, or know someone who is, owner Meredith Glaser creates the most gorgeous wedding cakes – really you wouldn’t want to cut into one they are such beautiful works of art.  Check out her cake portfolio here http://www.mgweddingcakes.com/cake1.php.

As I am typing this, I am eating an amazing chocolate chip cookie (tastes like shortbread with chocolate chips) from Plum Cove Grind – and believe me, it is difficult to type and eat a cookie at the same time, and not get crumbs all over the keyboard, but I can’t stop.  In addition to all the great food and beverage offerings at Plum Cove Grind, they also now carry Did You Know? the book, so you can pick one up to read while you’re enjoying your coffee and treat.

Meredith is also a new subscriber to Good Morning Gloucester.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Skeptics in the Pub

On April 19^th the Skeptics in the Pub presentation will be divided into two parts. First, Mary Kingsley will talk about “The Case for the Theory of Intelligent Design.” Next, Elizabeth Thomas will discuss “Popular Myths about the Theory of Evolution.” The presentations will focus on little known facts about Intelligent Design and misconceptions about the Theory of Evolution.  Skeptics in the Pub meets at the Dog Bar, 65 Main Street, Gloucester, at 6:00.  The presentation begins at 6:30. Don’t miss this chance to learn more about these timely topics and meet more skeptics like yourself.

You can find us at www. capeannskeptics.com

Today and Tomorrow (Sunday) free Life Is Good Stickers, Balloons,cupcakes and music!

Also enter to win a free raffle shopping spree.