This BEAUTIFUL barn is not along the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway, which is my normal rule for these “Barns Along the Byway” but I just had to share this gem. It’s fairly close to the Byway on Water Street in Ipswich. It appears to be part of the Glazier-Sweet house property though I am not finding too much about this barn yet. There just has to be a story here! Simply gorgeous.

American Cruise Line’s ‘American Constitution‘ has docked at Cruiseport several times over the past 5 weeks. The company has an updated full-page ad in the current edition of TIME Magazine that takes liberty, on the map, with the spelling of our city.

On May 6, 2012 I posted a photo and poem describing a gift of several old picture postcards I had received from a friend of GMG living in Maine. Now, nine years later, I received an email from Rita Teele, currently residing in New Zealand, but still pursuing the history of Annisquam. Rita’s correspondence provides interesting details that help us better understand and appreciate the postcards.

Here is the original post followed by Rita’s email.

THESE MANY CARDS

First posted on May 6, 2012 by Marty Luster

These Many Cards

Early in the morning on Wednesday, the 22^nd of August 1906,

Donald affixed a 1 cent stamp on a card that

contained a fine German print of the Annisquam Light.

By 1 o’ clock the same day, the card, having passed

through the Gloucester Post Office, was received

in West Medford and was soon delivered to Miss Mary McLeod.

A year after that, Annie sent Sydney Davison, then

residing at 10 Duke Street in Liverpool, England

two cards, each with color scenes of Annisquam;

one of the Yacht Club and the other of the bridge

across Lobster Cove. In one she laments her failure

to write more often and, in the other, she promises to “be over” soon.

Margaret, too, writes to Sidney assuring him that she

hasn’t “quite forgotten” him. She thinks the fellow

sitting alone on the rock in the picture of a yacht

race in the Squam River looks lonesome.

On August 31, 1909, Rosie, of Gloucester, drops a card

featuring the surf at Long Beach to Mary Davison of

Annisquam letting her know that Marj came down on

Sunday and was sorry she couldn’t get over to see her.

These many cards, these timeless scenes, these stories

partly told; these flashes from life of decades ago, this collage

of people now gone and places still here;

these many cards posted in Annisquam more than 100 years ago

and delivered this day to you in Gloucester;

these many cards, this gift to me – and now,

my gift to you.

Marty Luster

Hello Marty—from New Zealand!
Paul Horovitz may have mentioned that I am involved in uncovering Annisquam’s history—although that has been a challenge.We stayed in New Zealand as the pandemic evolved; thank goodness for the internet that is Covid free if not virus free.
I thought you might like the followup to your post from May 2012, These Many Cards.I was searching for Sidney Davison and Google captured your story.
Sidney Davison is of interest to the Annisquam Historical Society because he was one of the founding members.He was very involved in the community affairs in his lifetime. Best I can tell, he was involved in the frozen food industry; he also held a patent for an apparatus for freezing materials.

I believe that he was in England at the time those postcards were sent—from his mother Annie, and his sister, Margaret.I found no evidence that he had children. The cards were likely part of his estate.

Light fog….

Photo: Paul Horovitz

I’ve been following the osprey nest behind Lobsta Land on the Essex Greenbelt Osprey Cam and was recently able to catch the “changing of the guard” at the nest. If you scroll down to read the summary offered by the Essex Greenbelt experts, you will note the eggs are expected to hatch in about a week!

But photo opportunities over there are not optimal for the equipment I have available, so I’ll take an osprey sighting in the backyard as a fair replacement. Though ospreys are rare sightings at this location, we have seen them around other times. This time, I got some decent pictures. The “pooping” picture is a direct result of my trigger happy shutter finger getting excited to see the bird lean forward as if to take off in flight……but instead…..poop.

For additional pictures and story details, please visit Pat D’ Photos and Adventures on Facebook.

THE FREE SERVICE THAT SENDS OUT THE GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER NIGHTLY EMAIL IS SHUTTING DOWN JULY 1.

The daily GMG emails that you have been receiving for over 13 years have been sent out using a free service. As you see above the service that sends out those emails for free is being terminated. A replacement service is going to charge me between $799 and $999 per year.

This is the pricing from Feedblitz, a replacement service for the service that I’ve been using for free since the blog started. This is being discontinued in July (see the notification at the top of this post and the new pricing below).

That’s way too much for me to absorb on top of the blog hosting fees, podcast hosting fees, podcast studio software fees, url registration fees and so on.

I HATE ASKING FOR MONEY. I MEAN I HATE, HATE IT.

I can offer prints through Cape Ann Giclee which if we sell 20 or so I think we’d be covered after I pay for the printing.

I can keep track of how many are purchased and keep people updated on how close we are. Father’s Day is the 20th.

If you order a print and we get to that level I don’t have to run a fundraiser. You’d actually be killing two birds with one stone. You’d get a print for yourself or the dad/s in your life and we can keep putting out the email blast for free.

If you value the work the entire team puts in please consider placing an order for a print. I put over $3000 into producing the podcast in the past two years. Yes I love doing it, and I love supporting our local sports teams, local restaurants, local businesses and countless other causes. But this is an expense I did not anticipate.

Here is a link to my e-commerce shop at Cape Ann Giclee-

I will keep everyone updated as to the sales and promise to keep any sales over the amount needed for this 12 month period to put toward next year’s email distribution subscription fee.

I’m not asking for something for nothing, I just know how important the email blast is to a lot of people. If you have any questions feel free to email me at goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com

I’ll keep this post stickied to the top of the page and keep it updated with the sales.

• “Swan and cygnet” candle drippings, on dining room table

• Returning home in golden sunset light

• Deer with new antlers on Audubon land

• Eider diving school at Raymond Beach (starting dive, center)

• Eider diving school (under)

• Reproduction of “shallop” that came over on Mayflower’s deck 400 years ago

• House finch parents keeping watch on their nest in our front door hanging plant

• Last fuzzy photo of the House Finch fledglings

• Fishing season is on with the boats in close to the rocks

• Turkeys seeking shade during last week’s heat wave

• White Rhododendron bud 10 days ago

• Now in full bloom

From Jackie Bennett: