Manchester Historical Museum Cape Ann Through Artists’ Eyes show closes tomorrow
Closing reception – Saturday March 30 from 10AM-1PM
Closing Reception added tomorrow!
HAPPY NEWS TO SHARE ABOUT OUR #GLOUCESTERMA PIPING PLOVERS! AND HOW TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MALE AND FEMALE PIPING PLOVER
We have a definite female joining our male! On Monday when I first spotted a pair of PiPls on the beach, I think I mistook them for a male and female because one was doing a kind of torpedo-like run, and the other was following behind. This behavior is often followed by nest scraping. I think what we actually saw was one male establishing his territory over the other male. Since Monday (Tuesday through Thursday), only one singular male has been seen foraging at Good Harbor Beach.
This morning my daughter Liv and I went to check on the little male and a beach goer gave us a heads up that she had seen two. Liv spotted the pair in the tide flats and they were most clearly a male and a female. The two were at any one time only several feet apart, foraging in the tidal zone and preening on the shore, primarily in front of the nesting No. 3 area. There were a bunch of dogs off leash, despite it being an on leash day, and there were several dogs on leash, too.
Will these two that are currently at Good Harbor Beach stay and mate and nest? Will we have more Piping Plover pairs join the scene (as did last year)? Will we have troubles with a “Bachleor” again? It’s still so early in the season and I sure am excited to see what lies ahead!
The following photos, of the pair currently at Good Harbor, were taken this morning in the rain, and despite the dreary light, clearly show the difference between male and female Piping Plovers. I am eventually going to redo this post with photos from a sunny day because it will be even easier to tell the difference.
Click the images to view larger and more easily see the difference.
Female Piping Plover, left, male Piping Plover, right
During the courting and nesting season, the female’s crescent-shaped head band is paler in color than the male’s jet black head band. The male’s collar band is usually darker and larger, too, often completely circling the neck. Typically, the male’s bill is a brighter, deeper color orange at the base than the female’s.
Female Piping PLover, left, male Piping Plover, right.
It’s very easy to tell the difference during courtship and mating because of behaviors exhibited and I’ll post more about that in the coming months.
There are exceptions to this general rule of thumb–sometimes a female will have darker shading and sometimes the male will be paler.
By the end of the summer, the coloring of both male and female becomes paler and it is much more challenging to see the difference between males and females.
Good Harbor Beach on a sunny day earlier this week.
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FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT: Nubar Alexanian, Director of RECIPE FOR DISASTER
SALEM FILMFEST March 29-April 4, 2019
March 29, 2019
An explosive invasion of green crabs is an ecological catastrophe in the making in four neighboring towns on the Massachusetts coast in RECIPE FOR DISASTER directed by Nubar Alexanian. SFF program director Jeff Schmidt caught up with Alexanian ahead of the short film’s World Premiere as part of Shorts Block D at the National Park Service’s Salem Visitor Center on Sunday, March 31 at 10am.
Jeff Schmidt: You have been working as a documentary filmmaker for over 40 years, what are some of the past films you have worked on that have inspired you to carry on all of these years?
Nubar Alexanian: I’m very fond of the expression: “It’s not what calls you. It’s what keeps you.” There is no shortage of compelling stories out there waiting & wanting to be told and some of them just grab hold of you and won’t let go. This is what happened with RECIPE FOR DISASTER. It quickly became a film I had to make because it’s about a catastrophe in the making that is happening in my neighborhood. Also, my daughter and I have been working on a feature length documentary film since 2011 currently called SCARS OF SILENCE: Three Generations From Genocide, about the affects of the Armenian Genocide on our family. This certainly keeps me going…and often keeps me awake at night.
CALLING ALL CHEFS is one of my favorite short docs because it’s about the importance of the food we eat and the main character, chef Paolo Laboa, was a spectacular subject. So, for me, inspiration has always come from connection to the subject.
JS: How did you come to learn of the Green Crab?
NA: I’ve lived in the marshes of Cape Ann for a long time as a photographer and avid striped bass fisherman. So I know these marshes very well. However, in June of 2017 I heard about the explosion of the green crab population and was stunned that I had not heard about it before. How could this be? How bad was it? Like many documentary filmmakers, producing a film is a way of educating myself about a subject and finishing the film is a way of sharing what I’ve learned.
READ MORE HERE
RECIPE FOR DISASTER screens as part of Shorts Block D at the National Park Service’s Salem Visitor Center on Sunday, March 31 at 10am – FREE ADMISSION:https://salemfilmfest.com/2019/programs/shorts-block-d/
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“AN EVENING OF DOROTHY PARKER” BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
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It is never to early to get out and kayak
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Pop Up Show
This weekend! Saturday, March 30th, from 4-8pm and Sunday, March 31st, from 1-4pm, the Artist Studios at 196 Main Street are hosting a Pop-Up Show, showcasing handcrafted fine jewelry, photography and paintings. Artists Chloe Leigh Designs, Vanessa Michalak, & Katherine Richmond
Please join them on their opening night, Saturday March 30th,for light refreshments.
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Information on Gloucester’s Sidewalk Buttlers, information from Gloucester Clean Committee
Ever wonder what happens to all of the cigarettes our Sidewalk Buttlers collect? TerraCycle composts the paper and cotton, and the plastics are melted down and repurposed into new items like park benches! Read more about how it works here:
Volunteers empty approximately 4,000 butts per month from these receptacles. Combined with the butts they collect from beach cleanup events, they have collected more than 270,000 butts in a little over two years, according to Juli Marciel, Surfrider’s coordinator for the program.
Volunteers put these collected butts into boxes with postage-paid labels supplied by Terracycle, a company recycling a wide variety of products.
This bench in Ventura is made from recycled cigarette butts and has a memorial plaque for Paul Herzog, Surfrider’s Ocean Friendly Gardens coordinator. (Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/LARS DAVENPORT)
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Grits and Groceries Orchestra Tonight @ The Rhumb Line 9:30pm 3.29.2019
Grits & Groceries Orchestra (Winners of the 2016 Boston Blues Challenge) is a MA. based group that performs Blues/Soul/R&R music that will get you jumping, swinging and rocking!
40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732
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City Of Gloucester MA Launching Official Investigation As To The Alien Growth On #adventuredad @Adventureman
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#adventuredad #growler #momskitchen
I’m thinking Adventuredad enjoyed his strawberry shortcake from Mom’s Kitchen
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@adventureman and #adventuredad absolutely destroying some strawberry shortcake from Mom’s Kitchen also some photos from the Crow’s Nest
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@adventureman #crowsnest #Adventureman Mark Ring. Beer.
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Jane Deering Gallery presents A Turning Point | the contemporary landscape group show art reception Saturday April 13th
Jane Deering Gallery presents A Turning Point | the contemporary landscape with an opening reception Saturday April 13th from 4:00-6:00pm. The exhibition addresses the timely question Beautiful world, where are you going? and explores our fragile relationship with the natural world. The exhibition will run through mid-June and includes regional and international artists whose works are held in museum, corporate and private collections: Gabrielle Barzaghi, Tom Fels, Jacob Hessler, Jeff Marshall, Adin Murray, Esther Pullman, Steve Rosenthal from New England; Nell Campbell, Gail Pine and Youngsuk Suh from California; Gail Barker, Neeta Madahar and Michael Porter from the United Kingdom. The gallery is located at 19 Pleasant Street, Gloucester MA. Gallery hours: Friday/Saturday/Sunday 1:00-5:00pm and by appointment at 917-902-4359 or info@janedeeringgallery.com.
Contact:
Jane Deering
Jane Deering Gallery
917-902-4359
info@janedeeringgallery.com
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CAPE ANN BLUE
Gloucester’s Man at the Wheel
On a beautiful Wednesday afternoon, Gloucester’s Man at the Wheel waiting for the Great Adventure Man to come through.
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Opportunity Knocking
We love to think that we are in control of our lives. That we make our own decisions and create our own fate. Our country was founded on this notion of free will and choosing your own fate. But what happens when fate chooses you? When the perfect opportunity you weren’t looking for comes around? How do you say no? The answer: You don’t.
See more: https://www.grandbanksbp.com/blogs/blog/opportunity-knocking
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RESULTS WEEK 3 #Gloucester Ma FIRSTS| try Mr. Goulart’s local history hunt Throwback Thursday
Gloucester, Mass.- 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. We’re taking the challenge one week after the students. Good luck!
ANSWERS TO SHAUN GOULART’S LOCAL HISTORY TRIVIA WEEK THREE
How did you do? Week three was all about some famous Gloucester FIRSTS and there were many locations. Stop here if you prefer to go back to see Week 3 questions only.
1)The location of Gloucester’s first “Four Year High School”
Principal Albert Bacheler CENTRAL GRAMMAR
2)The location of Gloucester’s first Brick Building?
PURITAN HOUSE built in 1810 by Col. James Tappan* is a historic house at 3 Washington Street and 2 Main Street. Also known as: Tappan’s Hotel, Gloucester Hotel (“Tappan’s Folly”), Atlantic House, Mason House, Community House, Capt Bills (1960s-70s), Puritan House & Pub (1977), Blackburn Tavern (1978-00s) *Tappan was taught by Daniel Webster
Excerpt from prior GMG post (read it here) about scenic tours by bike 1885: “And now let’s take our wheel for a short run along our harbor road to East Gloucester, and note the many points of interest on the way. The start is made at the Gloucester Hotel–the headquarters of all visiting wheelmen in the city–at the corner of Main and Washington streets; from thence the journey takes us over the rather uneven surface of Main street, going directly toward the east. In a few minutes we pass the Post Office on the left, and soon leave the noisy business portion of the street behind us, then, e’re we are aware of it, we reach and quickly climb the slight eminence known as Union Hill…” This brick building at Main and Washington now features Tonno Restaurant. Notice the chimneys and same stairs as when it was the Gloucester Hotel. The Blackburn Tavern sign was just marketing; this building has no connection. Blackburn’s Tavern is now Halibut Point restaurant at the other end of Main Street.
3)The first schoolmaster and town clerk’s house. (private property do not trespass)
“RIGG’S HOUSE” 27 Vine Street (Annisquam) Thomas Riggs House purchased in 1661
oldest house on Cape Ann, Gloucester, MA
4)A list of the first recorded Gloucester fishermen lost at sea. (Hint: 1716)
Look under the year on cenotaph surrounding Man At Wheel
5)The location of the first carillon built in America.
Our Lady of Good Voyage – read more http://gloucester.harborwalk.org/story-posts/sp-20/
Subshop with a view- through Destinos window
6)The location of Gloucester’s oldest surviving burial ground for the First Parish.
1644! – 103 Centennial Drive – top of Centennial Drive near the train bridge
7)The location of Gloucester’s first town hall.
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Breaking News! @Adventureman @mrjamiemcdonald and his band of merry maniacs will be drinking with the masses at the Crow’s Nest tonight starting at 6pm 3/28/19
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This Weekend in the Arts 3/29-31/19
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Whoa! Tonight is gonna be a wicked good one. Dennis Brennan w/ Tim Gearan and Chris Rivelli ~ Dave Sag’s Blues Party @ The Rhumb Line 8:30pm 3.28.2019
40 Railroad Avenue Gloucester, MA 01930 (978) 283-9732
Good Morning Gloucester 