ArtTalk: Conversations with Essex Artists during ArtWeek
Essex news from Lee Spence and Lynne and Jay Havighurst:
ArtTalk: Conversations with Essex Artists
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2019 from 10AM – 12PM
Hosted by Essex River Cultural District
Event Location: Essex Town Hall, 3rd Floor, 30 Martin Street, Essex, MA 01929
(An accessible facility)
Get to know a diverse group of Essex artists as they share thoughts on the creative process, inspirations and influences behind their art, in a casual conversation moderated by Karen Ristuben (Program Director, Creative County Initiative at Essex County Community Foundation) with audience Q&A. Hear from poet Erica Funkhouser, whose latest book, Post and Rail, undertakes an exploration of family history, one mother’s compelling silences and our recent discovery of a way to “hear” gravitational waves that have been traveling to earth from billions of years ago. Mixed media artist Susan Guest-McPhail, passionate about the process of experimenting and starting new, explores the mystery of creating a non-objective painting. Glassblower James McLeod of The Bubble Factory uses steel or wood coupled with glass – creating tension between a very fragile material and a seemingly unbreakable, “heavy” material – to generate an emotional response and connection to these objects. Sculptor Chris Williams bends, shapes and welds metal into life-like works of art that appear caught in a moment of stillness. His process of bending and twisting the metal gives each piece a pulse. Essex Arts Collective comprises the second panel of artists. This dynamic group of women artists create collaboratively and collectively to inspire each other as they pursue their art. Featured members are Melissa Glorieux, Jen Groeber, Mallie Pratt, Jen Romans, Margaret Sweet and Alison Taylor.
Doors open at 9:30AM with complimentary coffee and cinnamon rolls by Ripple on the Water Restaurant. Following ArtTalk, clam chowder by Woodman’s Restaurant will be served. Free admission and parking.
This special event, presented by the Essex River Cultural District, is funded by a grant from the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. The event marks the recent 5-year renewal of the Essex River Cultural District designation. ArtTalk: Conversations with Essex Artists is part of ArtWeek (https://www.artweekma.org), a statewide creative festival.
Artists’ Websites:
Erica Funkhouser https://www.ericafunkhouser.com/
Susan Guest-McPhail https://susanguestmcphail.com/
James McLeod https://www.bubblefactoryma.com/team
Chris Williams https://www.chriswilliamssculpture.com/
Essex Art Collective https://riversandroads.life/essex-artists-collective/
Facebook Event Page
https://www.facebook.com/events/470793190124676/
ArtWeek Event Page
https://calendar.artweekma.org/Detail/144
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Yoga at Cape Ann Museum for Artweek2019
upcoming from the Cape Ann Museum
Yoga at the Museum for ARTWEEK 2019
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (April 10, 2019) –The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to participate in ARTWEEK 2019 by offering Yoga in the Gallery with Director of Library & Archives Molly Hardy, on Saturday, April 27 at 9:00 a.m. This program is $5 for Museum members or $10 nonmembers(includes Museum admission). Reservations can be made at camuseum.eventbrite.com. Email info@capeannmuseum.org or call 978-283-0455 x10 for more information.
Molly O’Hagan Hardy is the Director of Library and Archives at the Cape Ann Museum. Dr. Hardy previously served as the Director of Digital and Book History Initiatives at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester where she oversaw digital research and pedagogical projects, both in-house and in the larger scholarly community. Molly Hardy brings her passion of literature and history to her teaching of ashtanga-style yoga, and believes in the power of yoga to heal and to inspire. She started practicing five years ago to recover from decades of running and triathlon training, and to lift her spirits. She has completed Cape Ann Power Yoga 200 hour Teacher Training.
With support from a network of 150 statewide, regional, community and media partners, ArtWeek celebrates all forms of creativity in an affordable and accessible way for everyone who lives, works, plays and visits Massachusetts. It’s an award-winning, innovative festival that features hundreds of unique and creative experiences that are hands-on, interactive or offer behind-the-scenes access to arts, culture and the creative process. ArtWeek events span the Commonwealth’s six regions—Greater Boston, North of Boston, South of Boston, Cape Cod & Islands, Central Massachusetts and Western Massachusetts—and roughly 70 percent of this season’s events are free, making the arts accessible to everyone across the Commonwealth. Visit artweekMA.org to view the full calendar of events by town, region, price or area of interest.
Image courtesy of Cape Ann Museum.
About the Cape Ann Museum
The Cape Ann Museum has been in existence since the 1870s, working to preserve and celebrate the history and culture of the area and to keep it relevant to today’s audiences. Spanning 44,000 square feet, the Museum is one of the major cultural institutions on Boston’s North Shore welcoming more than 25,000 local, national and international visitors each year to its exhibitions and programs. In addition to fine art, the Museum’s collections include decorative art, textiles, artifacts from the maritime and granite industries, two historic homes and a sculpture park in the heart of downtown Gloucester. Visit capeannmuseum.org for details.
The Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $12.00 adults, $10.00 Cape Ann residents, seniors and students. Youth (under 18) and Museum members are free. For more information please call: (978)283-0455 x10. Additional information can be found online at http://www.capeannmuseum.org.
For a detailed media fact sheet please visit www.capeannmuseum.org/press.
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Agape Spring Marketplace
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Happy Passover
Philip Reisman’s 1928 etching depicts a family and friends gathered together reading the Haggadah at their Passover Seder.
About the artist, Philip Reisman-
Philip Reisman produced some sixty prints during the 1920s until 1931, mostly scenes from life all about him in New York City. Reisman studied printmaking with Harry Wickey who became a wonderful friend and guide. Helen Farr Sloan introduced Wickey to Reisman. At the time of this print, Reisman was sharing a studio with Harry Sternberg. He hadn’t sold any art work until he began to sell etchings. Later, when the “floor fell through everything” during the Depression, he applied for employment on the WPA. He was first assigned to the graphics department, and then moved on to easel painting and mural projects.
He was smart, humble, political and hopeful. A great humanist and social commentator. He and Louise, his wife, visited Gloucester often. Examples of his paintings and photography of Gloucester are included in the Cape Ann Museum.
– Catherine Ryan
I was lucky to know them both well.
Reisman was born in Poland in 1904 and from the age of four brought up on the lower east side in New York City, “a way of life and kind of scene I understand and witness. The kind of scene which arouses me emotionally and that’s why I do it and keep doing it because it hasn’t lost its meaning for me.”
“In my work I focus on people…I paint people because they have always transfixed me. What they do. Why they do certain things. I’m really puzzled why people do many things and captivated by everything about them. The way they dress, the way they act and their relationships. The architecture they build around themselves. The whole thing is an endless fascination to me.”
“My interest is in portraying life as I see it with its light moments and with its sad moments and I present it as it is…as long as I live I’ll keep painting people because they intrigue me and I have hope!”-excerpts from my interview with Reisman in 1985 before his 83rd birthday
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Around Town #99
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Ragusa, Sicily
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Visitors to Gloucester from France
Visitors to Gloucester from France, they were here doing a marketing production for Air France.
(That information is based on my limited French and the Business Card they gave me)
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Gloucester Smiles-1195
Photo taken on her 2nd year Birthday
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Osprey at Lobsta Land Nest Building like crazy
She is acting like she wants to pinch off a couple of eggs today!
https://www.ecga.org/Osprey-Cam
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Spring Cleaning
A sure sign of warmer days ahead. This is Spring Cleaning when you are a boat owner. Thank you, Paul Horovitz, for capturing this moment.
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Historical Commission 2019 Gloucester Preservation Awards | Ceremony May 19th at Cape Ann Museum
The 2019 Gloucester Preservation Awards
Press Release from the Gloucester Historical Commission
The Gloucester Historical Commission invites the public to attend the annual 2019 Preservation Awards ceremony on Sunday, May 19, 2 to 4 pm at the Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant St. in Gloucester. The event features a slide show of winning projects and comments by recipients.
May is National Historic Preservation Month, and each year the Historical Commission recognizes outstanding cultural heritage preservation, restoration, and education projects.
This year’s award recipients are:
Bryan Melanson – Restoration & Rehabilitation, for his cooperation and responsiveness as a developer to historic preservation on the Back Shore.
Ross Burton & Lanesville Community Center – Restoration & Rehabilitation, for their reconstruction of Virginia Lee Burton’s writing cottage.
Lillian Olmsted – Stewardship, for her research and vigilance as a citizen seeking to preserve the historic character of her neighborhood.
Magnolia Historical Society – Adaptive Reuse, for the rehabilitation of the Blynman School as their headquarters and a local history museum.
Bernadette Fendrock & Alan D’Andrea– Restoration & Rehabilitation, for restoration of an architecturally significant house at 24 Beach Rd.
1623 Studios – Education & Outreach, for their programming on the history and historic preservation of Gloucester and Cape Ann.
Manship Artists Residency + Studios – Adaptive Reuse, for their rehabilitation of the Paul Manship estate as working space for artists and sculptors.
James Ryan – Preserving Gloucester History, for his annotated hand-drawn maps of Cape Ann’s granite quarries and neighborhoods.
Richard & Kathy Clark – Stewardship, for their faithful volunteer efforts on the restoration of the Civil War-era Clark Cemetery.
Annisquam Yacht Club – Restoration and Rehabilitation, for their extensive rehabilitation of a historically significant recreational facility.
Meetinghouse Foundation – Education and Outreach, for its cultural programs and collaborative preservation of a historic church building.
Appreciation Award for Individual Lifetime Achievement– To be announced.
Certificates are awarded based on the following criteria:
Preserved neighborhood history through research, writing, or art
- Preserved a property that is historically significant in age, style, or use.
- Restored using traditional materials or methods.
- Preserved historical integrity or appearance.
- Protected from present threat or future harm.
- Completed project within the past two years.
- Accomplished by individual, family, group, or company, or through community advocacy or fundraising
Award categories include the following.
- Archaeology
- Adaptive reuse
- Stewardship
- Education and outreach
- Landscape preservation
- Restoration and rehabilitation
- Local preservationist
- Individual lifetime achievement
- Documentation of Gloucester’s history
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Hail, Notre Dame
No matter where we are or where we might be going this holy holiday weekend, I think Notre Dame’s damage is haunting us. I hope its caretakers know how widespread the effect is.
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EASTER BRUNCH OPTIONS FROM WWW.CAPEANNEATS.COM
Reserve Now: Easter Brunch at Feather and Wedge in Rockport
There is no better way to celebrate Easter than with a special brunch at Feather & Wedge. Book your table soon. Space is limited! To reserve your table, call 978.999.5917.
Preview menu here.
Sunday, April 21, 2019
11 AM – 5 PM
Feather & Wedge, 5 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966
https://featherandwedge.com/events/easter2019
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Easter Jazz Brunch Cruise aboard the Beauport Cruiseline
Come aboard the Beauport Cruiseline for a unique Easter Sunday Jazz brunch experience. Enjoy our award-winning cuisine, and the spectacular views of Gloucester harbor. Jazz music by C-Zone Entertainment.
Space is limited! Visit BeauportCruiselines.Eventbrite.com to get your tickets today!
MENU:
Assorted Pastries
Freshly Baked Miniature Croissants and a Selection of Fresh Danish
Fresh Fruit Bowl
Fresh Cut Assorted Fruits Including Honeydew Melon, Cantaloupe, Pineapple, Red and Green Grapes
Fisherman’s French Toast
Made with Virgillio’s Freshly Baked Bread, Served Warm with Maple Syrup
Eggs Benedict
Gently Poached Eggs with Canadian Bacon on Toasted English muffin napped with our Delicious Hollandaise Sauce
Carved Honey Ham
Honey Ham Carved by Our Chef and Accompanied by a Pineapple Glaze
Baked Haddock
Prime Rib
Butternut Squash Ravioli
With a Mascarpone Sage Cream Sauce
Chef’s Choice of Vegetable
Home Style Home Fried Potatoes
Chocolate Mousse Dessert
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EASTER BRUNCH MENU TONNO GLOUCESTER
🐰 EASTER BRUNCH MENU 🌷
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APPETIZERS
Raw Oysters, cocktail sauce and mignonette.
Shrimp Cocktail.
Avocado Toast with Shrimp.
Tuna Tartare , lemon vinaigrette and chive oil.
Zucchini Flowers, herbed ricotta and tomato.
Smoked Salmon, bagel, cream cheese, shallot and capers.
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BREAKFAST
Omelette – Lobster, scallion, potato & crème fraiche.
Omelette – Shiitake Mushroom, zucchini, mozzarella.
Vanilla French Toast & Berries.
Poached Eggs – Stone & Skillet English muffin, hollandaise & pancetta. Add crab … extra charge.
Pork Hash – 2 Fried Eggs, Stone & Skillet English muffin.
Waffles with banana, almond butter, amaretto whipped cream .
Scrambled eggs, bacon, home fries and grilled bread.
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LUNCH
Chicken Parmigiano.
Eggplant Parmigiano.
Veal Milanese.
Spaghetti and Meatballs.
Grilled Lamb Chops, rabe, roasted potato and mint gremolata.
Cod Oreganata, creamy potatoes and leeks.
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SIDES
Bacon.
Sliced Virginia ham.
Home fries.
Mixed Fruit.
Roasted Potatoes.
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MIMOSA’S
Create your own!
Add Peach, Orange and/or Grapefruit juice to any glass of prosecco.
Or try all three with a bottle of bubbles of your choosing … extra charge.
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BUBBLE BAR
Zonin Prosecco.
Champy, Brut.
Veuve Clicquot, Champagne.
Moet e Chandon, Dom Perignon.
Roederer Estate, (½ btl) Brut.
Louis Bouillot, Cremant Rose.
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SPRING COCKTAILS
Classic Bellini – Peach and prosecco.
Elisabetta’s Spritz – Lillet, Aperol and Prosecco.
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BLOODY BAR
House made Bloody Mary bar accouchement
Bloody Mary; Beauport vodka
Bloody Maria; Espolon tequila
Bloody Bulldog; Knockabout gin.
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#1 #Brunch #Easter #TonnoGloucester #GloucesterMA #NorthShore #BostonMA #CapeAnn #Foodie #FoodiesOfInstagram @ Tonno Gloucester
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Where’s the affordable housing?
Six. That’s the amount of single family homes for sale in Gloucester under $500k as I write this post. There are 61 single family homes for sale in Gloucester in total. So that means 55 of the remaining homes for sale in Gloucester are listed at over a half a million dollars. MLS shows the average list price of homes for sale in Gloucester currently at $1.389mil…that’s not very affordable.
The good news is that you don’t have to spend close to $1.5mil to buy a home in Gloucester. It just means there is a shortage of homes for sale that are considered affordable. The majority of the current homes for sale are on the water, marshes and beaches of Gloucester….some absolutely beautiful homes. This is common with the spring market, as buyers would want to be in Gloucester for the summer. This is prime second home buying season. We…
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Stair Building 101 Workshop
Join us for a workshop led by Fine Home Building ambassador Aaron Butt. We will start the day in the classroom learning how to calculate the rise and run of a stringer, and then move outside to put your knowledge to practice. Butt has taught at the North Bennet Street and is now a lead carpenter at Carpenter & MacNeille. He is a passionate carpenter and teacher. This workshop is designed to teach you how to build a basic set of stairs. Space is limited. To learn more or reserve your spot please email monica@grandbanksbp.com.
Learn More: https://www.grandbanksbp.com/products/stair-building-workshop-101
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A Tale Of Two Weddings In Photos.
It’s true Kate and I are officially married. Two beautiful days. One in the snow by the ocean. One in the sand by the ocean.
Simple elegant days without the aggravation of a huge event worrying about such things as flower arrangements and seating plans and guest lists. We did it on our terms throwing conventional tradition to the wind.
We couldn’t be happier. Thanks for all the well wishes on social media.
There will be a party when we get home. No one will need to buy a $400 bridesmaid dress that they secretly can’t stand. There won’t be an obnoxious shower on Fiesta Saturday or Fourth of July that anyone would grudgingly have to shop for and attend. It’ll be a party for our friends that haven’t had the chance to celebrate with us and the only thing I can guarantee is that there will be booze.
Here are a couple photos from both days.
March 1, 2019-
April 17, 2019
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PIPING PLOVERS – PARKING LOT NEST OR BEACH NEST?
Our Good Harbor Beach PiPls are waffling between the parking lot and the beach.
Tuesday at daybreak I found them mating and sitting in the nest in the parking lot.
Standing at the crossroads- parking lot nest or beach nest?
Papa and Mama courting at the parking lot nest scrape Tuesday.
Mama (left) and Papa( right) in the parking lot nest scrape.
The painted white lines provide camouflage.
Late Wednesday afternoon, the two were this time mating at their beach nest scrape. Throughout most of the day they were seen on the beach!
Mama and Papa mating on the beach Wednesday afternoon.
Aside from some pre- and early dawn scofflaws, along with the occasional visits by dogs off and on leash during the day, the beach appears to becoming less frequented by pets. Perhaps the beach will become the safer of the two locations and our little pair will decide to return for the duration of the season.
HEADS UP – This Sunday is Easter. If the weather is nice there is the strong possibility we will get people from out of town, as well as some locals, who are not yet aware of the ordinance change. The monitors will be on the beach, but we need help from the community in letting people know about the new policy, no dogs on the beach at any time of day or night from April 1st to October 1st. Thank you for any help given!
Thank you again to dog Officers Jamie and Teagan for their continued stepped up presence, and to Mayor Sefatia, Mike Hale and the DPW for the fantastic, clear simple signs. The past few days, the signs appear to really be having an effect!
Banded Piping Plover ETM was observed again Wednesday. You can see his ETM leg band in the photo on the left, but not when he is standing with his left leg tucked up under his belly.
Painted Lady flying in off the water into the dunes.
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The clouds of spring
As spring gives us all types of weather, I think the clouds are an example of spring time.
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RESULTS Week 6 1851 | #greatteacher Mr. Goulart’s local history hunt concludes #GloucesterMA #TBT
Gloucester, Mass. A great teacher at Gloucester High School, Shaun Goulart, creates a local history scavenger hunt/trivia game for his 9th grade students that takes place weekly for 6 weeks.
ANSWERS TO SHAUN GOULART’S LOCAL HISTORY SCAVENGER HUNT TRIVIA WEEK SIX. THIS CHALLENGE IS THE FINAL WEEK IN THE SERIES. GO BACK HERE IF YOU WANT TO SEE WEEK 6 QUESTIONS ONLY.
The challenge Week 6 was to locate the historic map on Cape Ann Museum’s Fitz Henry Lane on Line and study it closely to comb through location prompts. This is a great family activity for all ages. It’s a bit eye spy or Where’s Waldo mixed with atlas map fun. The students were tasked with photographing the same sites as they appear today and creating a labeled presentation.
Visit CAPE ANN MUSEUM FITZ HENRY LANE ON LINE resource and scroll down to the correct map here
Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport (detail of Harbor Village)
Henry Francis Walling (F. Walling)
1851
44 x 34 in.
Henry Francis Walling, Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Essex Co. Massachusetts. Philadelphia, A. Kollner, 1851
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
“Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts. H.F. Walling, Civil Engineer. John Hanson, Publisher. 1851. Population of Gloucester in 1850 7,805. Population of Rockport in 1850 3,213.”
Map detail = segment of Harbor Village portion of map showing Lane-Winter property on Duncan’s Point.
| Question – find on 1851 historic map | ANSWER- NOW (2019) | |
| 1 | Duncan’s Point | Maritime Gloucester / Railways (former FG Low’s & Eli F. Stacy’s whf) |
| 2 | Five Pound Island | State Fish Pier |
| 3 | Front Street (present sign must be in picture) | Main and Short |
| 4 | Middle Street (present sign must be in picture) | Middle Street |
| 5 | High Street | School Street and Proctor |
| 6 | Fort Defiance | The Fort |
| 7 | Vincent’s Cove | West End Main Street and Rogers section all fill / Gorton’s, Americold, etc |
| 8 | Town House | Legion |
| 9 | Gloucester House | Brick building corner of Washington and Main (Puritan House) |
| 10 | Two cemeteries | 1)cemetery next to Amvets on Prospect 2)St. Ann’s |
| 11 | Hospital | up Granite Street veers right to Blyman |
| 12 | Town Landing | Same (St. Peter’s) |
| 13 | Two bowling alleys | 1)on Stacy Boulevard (see Cordage manufactury below)
2) on the Fort |
| 14 | 3 schools | study the map! 1)by Univ Church and Eng H& School on Church off Middle on old map 2)looks like where Central Grammar is 3)Prospect and School where apartments are now 4)corner Washington and Gould Ct. |
| 15 | Train station | Roughly train platform now |
| 16 | Engine house | Beyond train platform- roughly where Stop & Shop is on RR Ave |
| 17 | Canal Street | Stacy Boulevard (Tavern side) |
| 18 | Cordage Manufacturing | Ditto |
| 19 | Beach Street | Commercial Street (behind Beauport Hotel back to water) |
Good Morning Gloucester 
