SATURDAY MORNING SUNRISE SURFER

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Surfer racing to catch the waves.

The surfer ran up so unexpectedly that I don’t have time to pull back my lens, but I like the images anyway.

Save the Date

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Should be a fun time at Marshall’s Farmstand for a Craft Show.  Always love visiting my friend the Alpacas.

 

ECCF to Invest an Additional $1.3 Million in Arts & Culture

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Details To Be Released at the Sept. 27 Essex County Arts & Culture Summit at The Cabot

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Essex County Community Foundation announced today that it is making a new $1.3 million investment to support a strong ecosystem for arts, culture and creative enterprise in Essex County.

This next phase of ECCF’s Creative County Initiative (CCI), which was successfully piloted in 2018 with a $500,000 investment from the Barr Foundation, is made possible through a second investment of $1 million over three years from the Boston-based organization. ECCF will raise the additional $300,000.

This partnership with Barr and its Creative Commonwealth Initiative will allow ECCF to expand on our pilot phase efforts, which included $300,000 in partnership grants to artists, nonprofits, business and community leaders for public art and creative placemaking projects. 

“What we have accomplished collectively through CCI in the last two years is a testament to how many people in Essex County care about the vital role arts and culture play in our communities,” said ECCF President and CEO Beth Francis. “We are so thrilled – and extremely grateful – to continue the critical work of elevating arts and culture in Essex County’s cities and towns with the Barr Foundation.”

ECCF is one of a cohort of five community foundations across the state being funded by Barr’s Creative Commonwealth Initiative, an investment in the unique potential of community foundations to build local networks for arts and culture and to help the creative sector become more sustainable, equitable and accessible statewide.

The second phase of ECCF’s Creative County Initiative will once again focus heavily on partnership grants, which brought to life – and continue to bring to life – 12 public art and creative placemaking projects across our region, from Lynn to Newburyport and many communities in between.

You can find out much more about a second phase of grantmaking and additional details on ECCF’s new $1.3 million investment in arts and culture in the region on Sept. 27 at the 2019 Essex County Arts & Culture Summit. 

“Many of the projects funded by the pilot phase of ECCF’s Creative County Initiative were incubated at the 2018 Arts Summit,” said Francis. “This year’s event is the perfect opportunity for artists, nonprofit organizations and community leaders to come together to form new collaborative partnerships that can have a meaningful impact on their cities and towns and help to shape the future of arts, culture and creativity in Essex County.”

The 2019 Essex County Arts and Culture Summit is happening on Sept. 27, 2019 from 9am – 4pm at The Cabot in Beverly. See the full schedule of events and register at www.eccf.org/arts-summit.

Live Music September 26 Gorrell-Landoni Duo at Feather and Wedge

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Join Feather & Wedge for dinner and an evening of great jazz with the Gorrell-Landoni Duo.

This accomplished jazz duo will perform music from the Great American Songbook as well as arrangements pop, R&B, and original compositions.

Thursday, September 26
7:00 – 9:30 PM

Reservations highly suggested! 978.999.5917

Zach Gorrell Dave Landoni

Feather & Wedge, 5 Main Street, Rockport, MA 019166
https://featherandwedge.com
978.999.5917

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GloucesterCast 358 with Chris McCarthy, Pat and Jim Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 9/022/19

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GloucesterCast 358 with Chris McCarthy, Pat and Jim Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 9/022/19

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Topics Include:

McCarthy turns the podcast on it’s head with his scheduling demands.

It’s September 22, 2019 the last day of summer!  NOOOOOOOOOOOO

Antonio Brown poll results

Chris McCarthy Lobster Catch Update Controversy Moving the parameters around to suit his case.

Beauport Hotel Staycation

Shoutout to Lucy our server at Yella

Shoutouts- Extreme Truck and Auto-Brake Story

Rob Bent From Brown’s Yacht Yard Video– Brown’s Employs 25 People Which Is A LOT!

What is funnier, the fact that GMG mascot Beau has shit in my office and home or the fact that the Facebook dog police are calling me a bad dog owner.

New “cap clip” link here saved Pat from losing her hat on recent whale watch trip
Less than $6.00 and other uses possible.
Trails and Sails events! Cape Pond Ice tour yesterday to be repeated next Saturday Sept 28 11 AM. Highly recommended. Tons of other FREE events this week and next weekend: https://trailsandsails.org/
Chris got a new Boston Whaler

 

 

HURRICANE #HUMBERTO DELIVERS GORGEOUS SURF AND RARELY SEEN IN #GLOUCESTER MA NEOTROPICAL BLACK SKIMMERS!!! MOTHER ANN, BACK SHORE, GOOD HARBOR BEACH AND MORE

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Thanks to my friend Heidi Wakeman who texted to let me know there was what she thought a trio of Black Skimmers down the creek at Good Harbor Beach. I raced over and sure enough there were three Black Skimmers, as well as several Laughing Gulls, resting on the creek edge along with a flock of gulls.

You could tell they were weary and wind tossed so we observed from the far side of the creek so as not to disturb the little travelers. Heidi and I enjoyed watching for a bit. A Great Blue Heron briefly flew on the scene, joining a mixed gathering of herons and egrets. Heidi stayed awhile longer and got to see them fly and skim-feeding.

Black Skimmers are called as such because they have a unique-to-their species method of foraging. Their lower mandible is longer than the upper, which allows them to skim the surface for small fish.

Southern Massachusetts is at the very northern range of the Black Skimmers breeding range. I imagine they have been blown off course by Humberto’s wildy winds.

Black Skimmers are not all that Hurricane Humberto delivered to our shores. The surf was tremendous Friday afternoon, with long lovely rolling waves that towered and crashed ashore. The late day softening light and a fine mist from the heavy amounts of moisture in the air lent an atmospheric light to all.

Here are some photos I took of Black Skimmers two years ago at Cape May, New Jersey, while documenting the Monarch migration along the southern New Jersey coast. Just as do Monarchs, Skimmers gather in great numbers at Cape May in late summer and early autumn, waiting for the right conditions to cross the Delaware Bay.

Stunning view from the Rocky Neck Marine Railway

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During the wonderful Phyllis A Art Show, taking a break and took a walk on the dock.

HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY JIM DESTINO!!!

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Late Thursday afternoon at City Hall Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken hosted a surprise Birthday Celebration with the city employees for Jim Destino’s 60th Birthday. The entertainment with Theresia Millasovich(Marilyn Monroe) was the ultimate surprise! To say it was a surprise is an understatement, the look on his face says it all!