SOME BEAUTIFUL CREATURES YOU’LL SEE ON OUR SHORES IN EARLY JUNE
A random grouping of recently spotted birds. The Song Sparrow and Cooper’s Hawk were seen in the lot at Good Harbor beach. Beautiful creatures surround here on Cape Ann, even in parking lots 🙂
Sanderlings migrating north
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Half Price Menu At The Rudder Restaurant Tonight 6/6/19
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Just hanging out
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Deborah Cramer’s wonderful book The Narrow Edge translated into Spanish by Ana Lis Salotti now available!
An Interview with Ana Lis Salotti, Spanish translator of The Narrow Edge, the award-winning book by Deborah Cramer, under the Spanish title Volando a orillas del mar: El viaje épico de un ave playera que une continentes.
“…Deborah has a unique writing style that I tried to capture. It often feels like rolling waves landing on the beach: she develops concepts gradually, builds them up and gives them strength from within, with depth. She rolls out her writing slowly but powerfully, carrying the same depth from the beginning, leaving readers stirred but also with a feeling of hope and peace. It’s similar to the feeling a scientist must have observing birds on the immense beaches of Patagonia, or what ordinary people feel when we think about the delicate balance between shorebirds’ epic migrations and all the habitats they depend on…” excerpt from Ana Salotti the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network interview
manomet.org Manomet, MA/Brunswick, ME
Read the complete interview here and see pictures of Deborah and Ana lis: https://whsrn.org/interview-with-ana-salotti/ …
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Art of Winslow Wilson & Pico Miran: Two Artists – One Life exhibit at the Rockport Art Association & Museum
The Art of Winslow Wilson & Pico Miran: Two Artists – One Life
June 8 – July 8, 2019
Rockport Art Association and Museum
12 Main Street, Rockport, MA
There are about forty Winslow Wilson (1892-1974) paintings in the exhibit and a new catalogue. I look foward to considering his work in person.
Back in February 2017, I wrote about Wilson/Miran in response to a GMG query from the artist’s granddaughter, Claudia Wilson-Howard, and her painstaking research and writing about his mysterious life and forgotten art, and filled in more context. Her excellent work is the genesis for the museum show and rediscovery of the artist. Wilson was a member and teacher at the Rockport Art Association. For local readers, Claudia’s online catalogue about his work www.winslowwilson.com helpfully provides some Gloucester addresses associated with Wilson.
- June 21, 1951: Bradford Building, 209 Main Room 208, Gloucester, MA
- August 1, 1951: Marine Basin, E. Gloucester, MA
- June 18, 1952: Bradford Building, 209 Main Room 208, Gloucester, MA
- July 26, 1955: Bradford Building, 209 Main Room 208, Gloucester, MA
- 1967 maybe 195 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
- 1969 maybe 195 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
- June 2, 1971: PO. Box 414, Gloucester, MA
I added these: 21 Est 15th Street, 154 East 39th Street, Carnegie Hall, 3 Washington Square North in Greenwich Village, Woodstock, N.Y., and Lime Rock, CT.
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Gloucester Smiles-1237
Watching the rain clouds roll in on the backshore.
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Clare shares seARTS 12th Annual Art Loan @Bass Rocks Show list of artists
For Immediate Release
seARTS celebrates 12th Annual Art Loan @Bass Rocks Show at Opening Reception June 12, 2019
Contact: Chuck Hayback cfhayback@mac.com
seARTS Art on the Rocks Opening Reception
The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (seARTS) proudly announces its twelfth anniversary of partnership with the Bass Rocks Golf Club for the Annual seARTS Art on the Rocks Program. This year’s show presents 40 works by 28 artists from Cape Ann and beyond, at its opening reception on June 12. The opening provides a chance for seARTS members along with the general public to enjoy superb art in an elegant club setting overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
The program is a year-round exhibition, showing and selling the work. The fresh and bold work of the 2019 show balances a body of returning artists with new.
Among the newly enrolled artists (from Cape Ann unless otherwise indicated) are Andrew Anderson-Bell (Ipswich), Kathleen Chrzanowski (North Billerica), Melissa Cox, Kristine Fisher, Marion Hall, Patricia McCarthy, Jim Murphy (Ashfield), Karen Nastuk (Danvers), Mary Rose O’Connell (Billerica) and Debbie Shirley (Boxford).
Returning to the show from previous years are Joan Bediz, Ted Bidwell, Matt Cegelis, Michele Champion (Ipswich), Katherine Coakley, Jeff Crawford, Rob Diebboll, Anita Freeman (Durham NH), Larry Grob (Weston), Olga Hayes, Kirk Larsen (Hicksville, NY), Nancy LeGendre, Michael Oleksiw (Beverly), David Piemonte, Mary Rhinelander, Judy Robinson-Cox, Deb Schradieck and Marny Williams, all from Cape Ann unless otherwise indicated.
We are also planning to feature an on-line catalog of the juried art works available for sale, for those unable to attend the reception. Details will be announced soon.
Responsible for the show’s thoughtful and lively selection of art is this year’s jury, consisting of Richard Caturano, a partner in the Boston Office of RSM US LLP (RSM) and an avid art collector, Janice Charles, owner and manager of Charles Fine Arts, Gloucester, and Ted Charles, President of the Board of Directors of the Copley Society, which represents over 300 artists.
We will also be honored to welcome Nathan Lewis, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Montserrat College of Art, as a new voice in a panel discussion, “The Changing Art Audience,” moderated by Maureen Aylward, Communications Consultant and Sustainability Educator and Adjunct Professor at Endicott College. The panel will include Jan Charles and Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco, seARTS Advisor and Chair & Co-Founder of Celebrate Wearable Art. Plans are in the works to have the discussion documented by 1623 TV as a live performance.
The jury will award honors that will be announced at the event. Awards are sponsored by Cape Ann frame shops.
Details of the Evening:
Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Time: 6:00-9:00 PM
Location: Bass Rocks Golf Club, 34 Beach Road, Gloucester, MA, (978)-283-1866 Please RSVP by leaving a message at (978) -281-1222 or emailing info@searts.org
Event is Free & Open to the Public
Hearty Appetizers & Cash Bar
seARTS Cape Ann, a registered 501(c)3 is a coalition of artists, art lovers, cultural institutions, businesses, and municipal organizations, all working together to improve the economic base for the arts and the larger Cape Ann community. In 2013 seARTS launched a new website where there is a robust section about the Art Loan Program and the works that have been on display. Find out more about this signature program and more at www.searts.org.
Read seARTS current weekly newsletter here
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Ward 1 Neighborhood meeting Monday 6/17 at 6pm, Kyrouz Auditorium at City Hall, for update & discussion of East Gloucester School Building
NOTICE: Ward 1 Community Meeting
&
East Gloucester Elementary School Building Project Update
Date: Monday, June 17, 2019
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Location: Gloucester City Hall, Kyrouz Auditorium
Ward 1 City Councilor Scott Memhard is pleased to host a Ward 1 Community Meeting and Update on the East Gloucester Elementary School Building Project
Agenda will include:
Presentation and Q&A with Members of the Gloucester School Committee,
the EGS School Building Committee, and our EGS designer/project manager Dore & Whittier Architects.
In addition, time allowing, any other community concerns or matters of Ward 1 interest may also be raised & discussed.
The EGS Building Committee will be meeting the week before at Blackburn Center School offices on Thursday, June 13th at 5 pm. Members of the public are welcome to attend. Current background on the project is available at the
EGS Building Committee‘s website: https://eastgloucesterbuildingproject.weebly.com
If you wish to submit questions in advance, or have suggestions for the Agenda, please contact me:
Scott Memhard, Ward 1 City Councilor
9 Graystone Road, Gloucester
Email: smemhard@gloucester-ma.gov or tel. 978-879-9394
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Open House this Saturday
Visit the Paint Factory site this Saturday for Ocean Alliance’s Open House! We are celebrating World Oceans Day by demonstrating some of our drones for whale research program. Stop in to learn about our Robotics Club and kids under 16 will get a free glider plane!
June 8, 2019
12pm-3pm
Ocean Alliance
32 Horton Street, Gloucester MA
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Castaway
Well if this isn’t a great way to start a day!
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Congratulations To Kate’s Dad Bill “Buzza”Foley
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Thank You Jim Dowd
Not posting today out of respect for Jim Dowd and his contributions to Good Morning Gloucester as well as out of respect for his love of Gloucester. Read and enjoy his posts as shared by Joey and others. I think you’ll be glad you did.
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You can now enjoy our popular Bar Bites menu EVERY EVENING this summer 🌤 from 4:00PM – 5:30PM
You can now enjoy our popular Bar Bites menu EVERY EVENING this summer 🌤 from 4:00PM – 5:30PM as well as EVERY NIGHT from 8:00PM – 9:00PM (Sun-Thurs) and 9:00PM – 10:00PM (Fri-Sat)
PRO TIP: Did we mention we have a new Frosé machine? 🍓 Check it out!
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Authentic Self Retreats ~
✨We have been on a journey with three beautiful souls this past spring!
So thrilled to share with you a collaboration of four inspiring companies coming together to create “Authentic Self Retreats” of the invisible soul
Ayurveda Wellness Healing, LLC, Marleen Wood, Tia Crystal and Earth Medicine School of Healing Arts
Mark your calendar for the first one to the sacred land of Sedona, AZ, January 22 – 26, 2020!
Details coming soon 💗
“Blockage is disease, Flow is health”😊
www.ayurvedawellnesshealing.com
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Gloucester Lost It’s Most Talented Writer RIP Jim Dowd
Anyone who’s anyone on the local interwebs has been touched by the sharp, funny humor from Jim Dowd. He wrote better than anyone locally. ANYONE.
Kim Smith Photo
Here are some of the contributions from Jim on these pages including many Podcasts we did together. For those of you missing his voice these podcasts will live on for you to refer to-
GLOUCESTERCAST 128 WITH DONNA ARDIZZONI, JAMES DOWD , KT TOOMEY, KIM SMITH, TOBY PETT AND HOST JOEY CIARAMITARO #GLOUCESTERMA
GLOUCESTERCAST WITH THE CLAM CREATOR JAMES DOWD AND HOST JOEY CIARAMITARO TAPED 5/17/14
ATTENTION ALERT CAPE ANN CITIZENS! STOLEN BIKE!!!!
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Official GMG Dog Beau Is Hungry…
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PIPING PLOVER CHICKS FIVE-DAYS-OLD AND ALL PRESENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR :)
Our little Good Harbor Beach Piping Plover family of five all appear to be doing well. The three chicks made the five-day-old milestone today. They are becoming increasingly independent, so much so that is is occasionally difficult for the PiPl volunteers to find. We monitors have had it relatively easy up to this point. With the cooler temperatures, the chicks have spent a great deal of time tucked under Mama and Papa. This first warm day of June, they were zooming from one length of the beach by the No. 3 boardwalk, all the way to the creek end, in and out of the cordoned off area, and to the shoreline. The chicks were also observed by monitor Laurie Sawin running up into the edge of the dunes and taking shelter from the heat and sun under the beautiful native flowering Beach Pea.
Ward One City Councilor Scott Memhard has provided laminated information about Piping Plovers, on a clipboard that any PiPl monitor can access via Cape Ann Coffees, which is around the corner from Good Harbor Beach at 86 Bass Avenue. The information can be picked up and dropped off by asking at the counter. Many, many thanks to Rick and Dorthe Noonan, proprietors of Cape Ann Coffees, for volunteering to keep the information at their wonderful coffee shop.
Gloucester Animal Advisory Committee chairperson Alicia Pensarosa reminds everyone to follow this link to sign up if you are interested in becoming a Piping Plover volunteer monitor: https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/2801244/true#/invitation
The weather prediction for the weekend is blue skies and seventies, so much help will be needed, especially during the mid-day when the beach is most congested. If you have any questions or comments, please email Alicia at gloucesterAAC@gmail.com.
Three-day-old PiPls waking up at sunrise, foraging in the wrack zone, and taking turns warming up under Mom and Dad
Looking for the well-camouflaged PiPl chicks makes my head spin!
Four-day-old chick
Five-day-old PiPl chick venturing into the dunes.
Great news from our PiPl friends at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge-as of May 31st, they have 39 pairs, 25 active nests, and their first chick is projected to hatch on June 6th! 
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1606 Restaurant & Bar – What’s for lunch? We’ve got some ideas…
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The beginning of summer in Gloucester
On Tuesday the bridge was up, I got out to take a peek at the Lannon in the harbor.
Good Morning Gloucester 