“The Dew Drop Inn: Come Wet Your Whistle By the Shores of Stage Cove”

We love these Notes From the Firehouse thanks to the Annisquam Historical Society and David W. Teele and Betsey B. Horovitz. Please remember that all prior notes can be found at this link https://www.annisquamhistoricalsociety.org/notesfromthefirehouse

Screen shots from the March 2021 notes can be seen below, but for the best reading experience read the entry at the link above. I, for one, had definitely never heard of the Dew Drop Inn.

Sawyer Free Library presents Digital Photography Basics with Skip Montello on Saturday, April 17

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Do you have a digital camera and need to learn how to use it? Do you already use your camera but want to know how to take better pictures? The Sawyer Free Library is pleased to offer a digital photography basics class with professional award-winning photographer SKIP MONTELLO on Saturday, April 17, from 2-4 pm.  The virtual presentation is free and open to all. Register here for Zoom link.

During the presentation, Skip will introduce the different camera controls and what they do. He will share his knowledge of digital photography basics, including equipment, components of light exposure, elements of composition, and more.

Skip Montello is a photographer working and living in Rockport, Massachusetts. He is an exhibiting member of the Rocky Neck Art Colony, Rocky Neck Gallery, Rockport Art Association, Newburyport Art Association, and the Griffin Museum of Photography.

His passion for photography developed during his career at the…

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Barns Along the Byway

This beautiful example of a barn along the byway can be viewed along route 133 near the old Candlewood golf course in Ispwisch. I think it misses the company of the golfers!

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

It’s time to prepare for the arrival of our hummingbird friends in about 2 weeks! I have a new feeder in my arsenal being delivered soon. Just you wait, Joey….just you wait…….

Saturday Clean Up with The One Hour at a Time Gang

On Saturday we will be cleaning up Route 133, Essex Avenue,  Gloucester, MA  01930

Time:          08:30 am- 09:30 am

When:       Saturday, April 17, 2021

Where:       Essex Avenue, we can park on Stacy Boulevard, my truck will have the yellow bags, etc.

We can carefully walk down 133 and clean up the trash.

Please practicing social distancing and wear your mask.  I will have gloves and yellow bags.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TODAY AT 7 PM EDT – 8:30 PM EDTJoe Wilkins Live StreamFree·Online Event 4.14.2021

Joe Wilkins Live from Home!
Stream through Facebook https://www.facebook.com/joe.wilkins.906 or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1fZ9ZUKExDCI2I8_JGlUoQ

About Wilkins
Joe (WILKINS) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer. Living on Boston’s North Shore, Wilkins writes, records and performs continuously in the Greater Boston area and beyond.

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Check out local artist Naomi Lee’s art work or better yet see it in person at 4 Centennial Drive in Peabody through April 24th!

Naomi Lee

Hello all! It’s been a long Winter.. For me, my kitchen and basement flooded so I decided while construction was being done, it was time to find something good from something bad. I took my paints, my brushes and my canvas’ and I escaped to the ocean, my place of peace. I could paint any time with no distraction, watching the sunrise. Tides coming in and out, listening to the waves crash on the rocks while watching the water trickle down back into the ocean. I sat there all day painting into the sun setting over the Twin Lights. As a result I was able to hang 54 of my paintings, many of which were done in Rockport, MA during my 3 month stay. My artwork is on display at 4 Centennial Drive in Peabody through April 24th. I will be live painting this Thursday from 4-6, Saturday April 17th from 3-7, and Thursday April 22nd from 4-6. If anyone is interested in coming and checking it out I would love to have you.

4 Centennial Drive in Peabody, MA

Friends of Sawyer Free Library Book Nook beckons

Happy Spring, Happy Books – Colleen shares an April 2021 Book Shop message from the Friends of Sawyer Free Library

Work on Parsons Street pass through in progress #GloucesterMA

April 14, 2021 view back to City Hall from Rogers St.

Excited to see the project continue!

Before –

Thank you Jamie Calderwood for bringing attention to Parsons!

2015

2015 photo (monumental –temporary– street mural by Jamie Calderwood first painted in 2012)

Oct. 2019

Read more about the Parson Street mural here

Great to Meet You!

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Thanks for visiting us at the Cape Ann Job Fair!

Christine and Barbara from ABC Home Healthcare were on hand and enjoyed meeting potential caregivers last night at the Cape Ann Job Fair.

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Dutch Elm Trees Back on Cape Ann

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Cape Ann just became more climate resistant (and beautiful!) thanks to our local climate hero Nathan Ives. On Friday April 9, 2021, Nathan Ives and his Project Elm team received and began planting 100 disease-resistant elm trees in Rockport and Gloucester.

It is a grassroots community project intending to help restore elm trees to their once prominent place on Gloucester and Rockport streetscapes while taking a proactive step to help reverse global climate change (trees capture carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, out of the air and store the carbon in their trunk. CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are driving climate change.) The project is inspired by the World Economic Forum’s 1-trillion tree initiative.

Project Elm is a grassroots community project intending to help restore elm trees to their once prominent place on Gloucester (and Rockport) streetscapes while taking a proactive step to help reverse global climate…

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