Eastern Point Light Station Circa 1939

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Back to the 1937-38 Gloucester City Directory! You can see here the lighthouse keepers and harbor masters for this time period; you might recognize some of the family names on this page of the directory!

1938 City Directory Lighthouses

I was curious about Carl D. Hill, so I checked the 1940 census for him (available free here). You can see he and his family, along with the assistant Coast Guard Lighthouse keeper Francis Macy and his family. I note with interest that Carl D. Hill was his own enumerator for this entry. This is unusual. That’s a pretty good sized number of people living out there. It is listed as “Federal Property Eastern Point Light Station”.

1940 Lighthouse Keeper census

At this LighthouseAntiques.net website, I found this WONDERFUL picture of the Eastern Point Light Station from about 1939 with the keeper in the picture! I am supposing this teeny tiny figure must be either Carl D. Hill or Francis Macy.  What a great find! I thought you might enjoy this little stroll back to the late 1930s with me.

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GloucesterCast 350 with Susan Lipsett, Chris McCarthy, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 7/28/19

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GloucesterCast 350 with Pat and Jimmy Dalpiaz, Chris McCarthy, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 7/28/19

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Topics Include:
Reunion
Kim made a cake for the 350th GloucesterCast!
Bluefin Blowout Recap www.bluefinblowout.com
$62,000 raised Joey hits the 50/50
Domestic Tuna vs Tuna that gets shipped to Japan
How are there not more deaths at Wingersheek?
Greenhead
Hummingbirds At Chris’ House
If you had to give up one food for the rest of your life- Tacos Pizza Burgers Or Fries
Susan Lipsett went To the Rusty Can
The Yeti Thief Has been Discovered
Winslow Homer Exhibit at Cape Ann Museum
Free Kim’s program at Sawyer Free Library For Kids August 21st- Monarch program
Sidewalk Bazaar August 1,2 and 3rd
Video of Doe at The Beach-Link to doe video post  https://wp.me/pa6CS-2bfx
Game Changing Plover Story
The video in the Facebook Live feed below smooths out around 5 minutes 30 seconds.

 

VIDEO: GOOD HARBOR BEACH BEAUTIFUL DEER

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Footage from a brief encounter with the beautiful Good Harbor Beach doe of the dunes.

 

See Photos here.

 

Public art: Helen Bur new street art wall mural on Cabot theater in Beverly

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Monumental new street art adorns the Cabot’s historic theater walls above and beside exterior murals painted in the 1990s by owner + staff from Le Grand David Own Spectacular Magic Company. Then and now the exterior murals offered opportunities for Montserrat students to assist in some capacity.

After a competitive mural call with some 70 submissions, Alex Senna, a muralist based in Sao Paulo Brazil was selected to paint the wall at Cabot and Dane streets (here). Helen Bur of London was chosen for the side wall along Judson at Cabot Street (this post), with Abington artist Felipe Ortiz assisting.

A portion of the cost for these 2019 public art works included about $40,000 raised by the Cabot and a grant award ($16,500) from the Essex Creative Community Foundation.  The dedication is Tuesday, August 6, 2019 from 5:30-8:30PM at the Cabot (286 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA). Food trucks and brew will be part of the celebration event.

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Public Art | Alex Senna new street art Cabot theater murals #BeverlyMA (Le Grand David elephant mural stays)

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1 of  2 (photos of Senna mural)

Monumental new street art adorns the Cabot’s historic theater walls above and beside exterior murals painted in the 1990s by owner + staff from Le Grand David Own Spectacular Magic Company. Then and now the exterior murals offered opportunities for Montserrat students to assist in some capacity.

After a competitive mural call with some 70 submissions, Alex Senna, a muralist based in Sao Paulo Brazil was selected to paint the wall at Cabot and Dane streets (this post). Helen Bur of London was chosen for the side wall along Judson at Cabot Street (here), with Abington artist Felipe Ortiz assisting.

A portion of the cost for these 2019 public art works included about $40,000 raised by the Cabot and a grant award ($16,500) from the Essex Creative Community Foundation.  The dedication is Tuesday, August 6, 2019 from 5:30-8:30PM at the Cabot (286 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA). Food trucks and brew will be part of the celebration event.

 

 

LOW NUMBER LICENSE PLATE AUCTION, SAVE THE DATE

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Ruth Pino, President of the Cape Ann Community Foundation would like you to SAVE-THE -DATE for the Low Number Cape Ann License Plate Auction, August 26 – September 9th. Single digit numbers and #100 is still available. By buying one of these low number plates or just ordering a plate today at Lovecapeann.com you are not only showing your love for Cape Ann, but you are allowing the foundation to give more grants to nonprofits and education initiatives in the future. In the last three years the foundation has awarded $39,000 to our local nonprofits and education initiatives. These grants have made a tremendous difference to the organizations that have received them. Help the Cape Ann Community Foundation make bigger and more grants in the future for the ♥️ of Cape Ann!!!

Tomorrow: Planetarium in City Hall will be out of this world!

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July 29th 10 AM and 11AM

popup planetarium will be set up in City Hall as part of Sawyer Free children’s library summer 2019 Universe of Stories themed programs

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KIM SMITH FREE MONARCH EVENT FOR KIDS AT THE SAWYER FREE LIBRARY

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Save the date for my upcoming Monarch Butterfly program for kids at the Sawyer Free Library on August 21st at 10am. This program is free and held in conjunction with the Cape Ann Reads exhibit on display at the Sawyer Free.

Sssnakes at Sawyer Free children’s library | scenes from Rick Roth visit

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Summer reading, new books, ongoing weekly programs, and special summer events: Sawyer Free children’s department is impressive! Families time regular visits to check out and return books with an array of fun plans. Rick Roth and crew engendered smiles and gasps with snakes from New England and the world on July 27, 2019.

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Captures from Assistant librarian and wonderful photographer Linda Bosselman

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With the crowds at capacity year round, the children’s library is ideal on this level.

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Imagine using stairs and the elevator to access the crush of ongoing and popular children’s programs on a proposed top floor of a proposed new building (review plans here). Sawyer Free has appropriated $935,000 from the endowment for a fundraising firm to assist with the capital campaign to raise 20 million of a 26 million plus project. Preliminary plans displayed at the annual meeting can be seen here

 

The childen’s department needs renovation and expansion, and access to its outdoor space again. The future planned terracing limits the public outdoor space and will impact the rich flexibility of so many outdoor options, running around and programs this department made use of since the Monell build.

Reminder – Pop UP Planetarium at City Hall tomorrow July 29,2019 summer 2019 a Universe of Stories (separate reminder post coming)

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Gloucester Orioles and Hummingbirds

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We are happy to share our backyard with any number of wonderful birds. These are some that make me especially happy.

Hummingbird: one minute resting in a branch and gone the next!

We hadn’t seen orioles for a while so were are happy to welcome them back. So lucky to live here!

Last night was blackened haddock tacos on the @WeberGrills Go-Anywhere and @LodgeCastIron skillet at Niles Beach and it was GLORIOUS!

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Glorious.   Living a mile away from your favorite beach is pretty sweet.

What makes it sweeter is hanging with some of your favorite people and cooking incredible food while your toes are still in the sand on that very same beach.

A little EVOO and Paul Prudhomme Blackened Fish Seasoning.  Cook it up on the Lodge Cast Iron skillet , toast the taco shells and add Kate’s awesome homemade slaw, avocado crema or my sriracha mayo or all that!

Heaven.

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Live Music July 30: Gorrell-Landoni Duo at Feather & 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.

Tuesday, July 30
7:30 – 10:00 PM

Reservations highly suggested! 978.999.5917

Zach Gorrell Dave Landoni

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

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SMOKY CABARET CONCERT BY ‘WHAT TIME IS IT, MR. FOX?’
August 2 free soul and rock concert on Meetinghouse Green

 Gloucester residents and visitors are in for a total treat on Friday, August 2, at the fifth free concert of Cape Ann’s smoky and exuberant band ‘What Time Is it, Mr. Fox? ‘ at Meetinghouse Green, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.

 

Led by the gender-defying voice of singer-songwriter 3rian King. ‘What Time Is It, Mr. Fox’ will pack a punch of emotional authenticity and originality with their songs that marry lyrical imagery and theatricality with cinematic sensibility. Themes of love, spirituality, sexuality and identity permeate their songs and performance. (Highly recommended: go see the group’s multimedia animated musical, ‘Medusa: Reclaiming the Myth’ at the Charles Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science, August 22.)

 Named after a Victorian children’s game, ‘What Time Is it, Mr. Fox?’ time-travels from 1960s New Orleans soul, to the minstrels of Medieval France, and then lands in the Tin Pan Alley era of NYC. The band began as a duo in 2004, featuring vocalist 3rian King and trumpeter Nathan Cohen, and quickly became a fixture of Boston’s underground cabaret scene, blending music with elements of circus, dance and performance art. In 2014 the band re-formed as a 5-piece ensemble, including Dennis Monagle on drums, Renee Dupuis on voice, keys and melodica, and Joe Cardoza on upright bass, along with the original founders, Nathan Cohen and 3rian King. The band collaborates with acclaimed filmmaker and Harvard Professor, Ruth Lingford, with extraordinary creative results. Their song ‘The Ladies’ Tree’ was turned into an animated short, and ‘Medusa’ also features Lingford’s zany and spectacular animations.

 Catch 3rian King and his band ‘What Time Is It Mr. Fox?’ as their star rises, and while they still perform in Gloucester and Cape Ann.

Each week Music on Meetinghouse Green partners with a different non-profit organization to raise awareness for the services they provide to the local community. At the August 2 concert, the audience is invited to contribute a freewill donation to Maritime Gloucester, a non-profit organization providing a maritime museum, sea pocket aquarium, working waterfront, and maritime education to all ages, in Gloucester. Common Crow will provide fresh natural food for concert-goers.

 The Gloucester Meetinghouse, home of the Unitarian Universalist Church, is located at the corner of Church and Middle Streets. The concert is handicapped accessible. Event parking is available on the green and at additional parking lots nearby in the Historic District. Folding chairs will be provided or bring your own beach chair. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be held inside the Meetinghouse.

 The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation is grateful to our 2019 sponsors who made this series possible:
Hero: Scobie Ward
Platinum Tier: J.J. & Jackie Bell, Cape Ann Savings Bank, Harry & Mary Hintlian
Gold Tier: John and Janis Bell, Bomco, Michael & Mary Ann Bresnan
Silver Tier: Anonymous, Gib and Sarah Carey, JoeAnn Hart & Gordon Baird, Charles Nazarian, John and Sandra Ronan
Bronze Tier: Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, Bill & Rose Hausman

 All 2019 Music on Meetinghouse Green concerts are dedicated in honor of Linzee Coolidge and the late Beth Coolidge for their vision and generosity.