Exhibit travels from Maine to Massachusetts, Oct. 30, 2021 to Feb. 13, 2022

GLOUCESTER, MASS. (October 2021) – The growth of two of New England’s oldest and most revered summer art colonies will be the subject of a special exhibition, Cape Ann & Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies, opening Oct. 30, 2021 at the Cape Ann Museum. The show features works by artists who visited and were inspired by both places including Theresa Bernstein, Walter Farndon, Eric Hudson, Margaret Patterson, and Charles Movalli. It will be on view through Feb. 13, 2022.

Curated by art historian James F. O’Gorman, the exhibition was organized by Cape Ann Museum in collaboration with the Monhegan Museum of Art & History on the island of Monhegan in Maine. It is on view now in Monhegan until Sept. 30 before it moves to Cape Ann.

Monhegan and Cape Ann trace the roots of their respective art colonies back to the mid-19^th century and specifically to the years immediately following the Civil War. Summer enclaves, which emerged during that time, gave artists the chance to socialize with one another, work together, share ideas, try out new techniques, and critique each other’s works.

Located 10 miles off the Maine coast, Monhegan is much smaller than Cape Ann and more isolated, however, both places offered their own vistas and many artists moved between the two colonies. During the 20^th centuries, both communities saw a surge of artists, professional and amateur, visit their shores. Today, Monhegan and Cape Ann continue to be vibrant regional art colonies of national significance.

One of the artists featured in Island Vistas is Eric Hudson (1864-1932) who was an accomplished painter and photographer. An expanded collection of Hudson’s paintings will be on display in an adjoining gallery at the Cape Ann Museum, giving visitors the opportunity to delve deeper into his work.

The exhibition includes works from the collections of the Monhegan Museum of Art & History, the Cape Ann Museum, the Rockport Art Association & Museum, and private collections.

DROPBOX LINK TO HIGH RES IMAGES: https://www.dropbox.com/t/G4Mo6x00dSf68bcC

The Cape Ann Museum, founded in 1875, exists to preserve and celebrate the history and culture of the area and to keep it relevant to today’s audiences. Spanning 44,000 square feet, the Museum is one of the major cultural institutions on Boston’s North Shore welcoming more than 25,000 local, national, and international visitors each year to its exhibitions and programs. In addition to fine art, the Museum’s collections include decorative art, textiles, artifacts from the maritime and granite industries, three historic homes, a Library & Archives and a sculpture park in the heart of downtown Gloucester. In Summer 2021, the Museum opened the 12,000 square foot Janet & William Ellery James Center at the Cape Ann Museum Green. The campus also includes three historic buildings – the White-Ellery House (1710), the recently acquired Babson-Alling House (c.1740), and an adjacent Barn (c. 1740), all located on the site at the intersection of Washington and Poplar Streets in Gloucester. CAM Green is open Thursday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 pm.

The Cape Ann Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester and is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $12.00 adults, $10.00 Cape Ann residents, seniors, and students. Youth (under 18) and Museum members are free. Cape Ann residents can visit for free on the second Saturday of each month

A Vintage Car Climb event was held recently at the Crane Estate featuring pre-WWII vehicles in timed races. This sounded very interesting so we secured tickets and attended on a gorgeous fall afternoon. It was a celebration of the “roaring twenties” and “jazz” era complete with costumed staff, appropriated music accompanying the vintage vehicles. You really felt drawn back to a long lost era with the roar of the engines, lively music, dancing and costumed participants.

The event was very well organized with lots of volunteer help for the sold out crowd. Our friends at Lyon-Waugh Auto Group sponsored the event and we even got to say hello to FOB Cidalia ! The vintage vehicles were spotlessly maintained and it was so much fun to watch them race by, complete with the sounds and smells of pre-WWII automobiles!

Carla Grillo is the author of “The Past Is A Present”, a book profiling 28 seniors from the Gloucester senior community.  All proceeds will benefit The Gloucester Council on Aging and the Rose Baker Senior Center. 
The book is sponsored by the Friends of The Gloucester Council on Aging.
TO PRE-ORDER THE BOOK, USE LINK:  https://pastisapresent.org

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GLOUCESTER’S “CATERPILLAR” MASTER MECHANIC

RAY CHANDANAISMy friend and a great guyLooking back over 50 years ago, when I first met Ray, we both were so young.  Ray had teamed up with Ozzie Howard, starting their Marine Repair business on Pond Road, while I had just opened my Gloucester Marine Insurance Agency.Ray and Ozzie both serviced our fishing fleet, and in a way, complimented each other’s work.  Ray approached his Caterpillar customers with the tools and expertise of a brain surgeon.  His partner, Ozzie, serviced his customers with his “jack of all trades” experience and a sledge hammer!  IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF ONE ERA AND THE END OF ANOTHER.

FRIENDSHIPS
As our business relationship grew, our friendship intensified.  In my life, the friendships I’ve made along the way, are all important.  Ray Chandanais is my good friend, along with his family:  wife, Helen; son, Jay; sister, Theresa Wilkins; mother, Mary, and their own family relatives come to mind.
In 1981 when our family opened our Union Hill Coffee House, the first daily breakfast customer was Ray!  No one supported our business more than Ray, and on weekends, his entire family.  Our friendship went far beyond business.  Ray, Helen, and their family were our family.  Joan and I were invited to their wedding at the Surf in Magnolia.  Family birthday parties, Veteran’s Day and Marine Corps (10 November) annual restaurant birthday celebrations, when Ray loaned his sons’ Marine Corp portraits for display above our restaurant dessert case.  Ray was so proud… GREAT MEMORIES!
Gilson’s 60th Wedding Anniversary
When our family – sons Brent, Blake, Joan and I opened our restaurant, September 17, 1981, our lives changed… our new family, our Union Hill customers led by the Chandanais, became our life!
Ron Gilson

GLOUCESTER’S “GENERAL MOTORS” MASTER MECHANICSEBASTIAN “BUZZY” PARISIJoe G… F/V St. Peter says “He kept us running!”
Sebastian “Buzzy” Parisi, now retired, was a Number One diesel mechanic, just like his dad, Joseph “Three Finger Joe” Parisi, before him.“Buzzy” Parisi possessed the same mechanical genes as his father, Joe, who was the legendary Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Master Mechanic from the Golden Age of Fishing 1940 – 1955.  I can’t resist offering this memory of the 1940’s.As a 12 year old boy in 1945, I sat on the threshold of the engine room companionway looking down at the initial starting of the Catherine Amerault’s big six-cylinder 400 H.P. Atlas Imperial diesel engine.  As the Atlas Company representative checked all the operating systems and the Lister auxiliary engine pumped up the air, I watched Walter Davis, Alec Grimes, and “Slim” Cook ( Groton’s Machine Shop employees) doing their thing in preparation of starting this monster AWESOME (to a young boy) green machine!Unlike the stream-lined Cooper Bessemer, the Atlas had a Rube Goldberg character – the push rods, rocker arms, valve cages – moving parts were exposed!  When the Atlas rolled over, belching the sound of escaping air, gears engaging, chain drives rattling – in unison, all responding to engine room bells and buzzers – it was a MIRACLE beyond words to a young boy!  That was the world of “Three Finger Joe” Parisi. I’ll never forget it!Joe’s son “Buzzy” would follow his dad into the GM “General Motors” era only a few years later.
As the 1950s faded, more and more the heavy-duty slow turning engines were being replaced by small Buda’s, Cummins, and GM 6-71s, etc., especially in the day-boat fleet.  Many old timers thought that horses were being replaced by ponys!  That the small high-speed engines would not last – not true.
Three-Finger Joe’s Son, Buzzy Parisi, a GM manHis father was a heavy-duty Atlas genius!
Buzzy Parisi’s era was dawning.  He would be in on the ground floor.  The fleet quickly adapted to these smaller high-speed GM’s and Cats.  Buzzy would be the waterfront’s “go to” GM diesel man!In a 1999 GDT article by Peter Prybot, he mentioned the F/V Serafina N., St. Jude, and Diane Carinhas, as a few of Buzzy’s engine customers.  They were all my insureds!  I can see Lakeman’s Diane Carinhas loaded, coming like a train down the North Channel, thanks in part to Buzzy Parisi’s expert maintenance.  The fleet – at least 50 – 60 boats equipped with Detroit GM diesels – depended on Buzzy Parisi.Like his dad before him, MASTER MECHANIC SALVATORE “BUZZY” PARISI had no equal when it came to GM diesels!

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Presented by
Ron Gilson and Erik Ronnberg
Arthur D. Story Shipyard
Essex, MA
Circa 1947

Golden hour…

The Joy of Sax will be playing from 5:30-8:00 pm and we will have a selection of German inspired foods available for a $20.00 fee.  There will be a cash bar with specialty beers and of course wine too!

First Great Granddaughter after eight boys!

Cake Ann has relocated to the 7 Seas Wharf in the former Gloucester House on Rogers Street. We stopped in and were impressed with the setup. There is much more room available with indoor and outdoor seating. There is a ribbon cutting scheduled for today Wed Oct 20 at 3 PM if you are interested. Check it out! Best wishes to our friends at Cake Ann.