My View of Life on the Dock
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Limit of two per customer
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My favorite event of the year is on our doorstep: Schooner Festival to be held Sept 3-6 this year. I am looking forward to seeing all the guest schooners at the local docks and in the harbor. I hope to spend significant time on board our local schooners. I hope you do too! Here’s some memories from previous years to whet your appetite. Stop by 44 Main St to check out our various schooner related items including hats, shirts, sun catchers, notecards and nightlights. Open noon-5 Thursday, 10-1 Friday (Block Party!); 11-5 Saturday and noon-3 Sunday.
Another GREAT week of shows at The Cut! And this week Publick House at The Cut takes over the restaurant! They’ll be opening on Wednesday, September 2nd at 11am and will be operating seven days a week for lunch and dinner! You can find out more about The Publick House at The Cut HERE.
Thursday we have Abraxas – Santana Tribute. Doors at 7pm. Show at 8pm. There are still some tickets available.
Friday is Mighty Mystic with Double Tiger. Doors at 7pm. Show at 8pm. This show is part of the Legends of Reggae Series presented by Happy Valley. There are still tickets available.
We also have Clay Pigeons live in the restaurant from 7pm – 10pm. No cover!
Saturday is Barry Goudreau’s Engine Room in the venue. Doors at 7pm. Show at 8pm. There are still some tickets available.
Plus DJ Skully will be throwing it down in the restaurant starting at 9pm. No cover!
Publick House at The Cut takes over this week.
The Hours this Week are:
Wed 11am – 10pm
Thu 11am – 1am
Fri 11am – 1am
Sat 11am – 1am
Sun 11am – 10pm
The Publick House at The Cut opens 9/2 and will be open for lunch and dinner 7 days a week!
The Cut Memberships are always available. Sign up for exclusive presales, perks and privileges!
THE CUT | 177 Main Street | Gloucester, MA
To all who knew him and loved him please feel free to come, share stories and celebrate his life ❤️
Come by with your peeps so we can take your picture with teh www.goodmorninggloucester.com Instagram Photo Frame
~ Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce ~
Main Street is closing down and coming alive for Gloucester Block Party #3! Bring your crew, your dancing shoes, and your appetite for a jam-packed night of live music, incredible street performers, and local flavor.
WHEN: Friday, September 4 | 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Streets close at 5 PM)
WHERE: Main Street, Downtown Gloucester, MA
ADMISSION: Completely FREE!
3 STAGES OF LIVE MUSIC (Starting at 6 PM):
FAMILY FUN & SPECIAL GUESTS:
Dozens of your favorite downtown shops, local restaurants, food vendors, and artisans will be open late with special block party deals!
Don’t miss the ultimate celebration on Cape Ann. Tap the link below to view the full lineup and RSVP!
Get the Full Event Schedule Here:
bit.ly/BlockParty-Sept4
What a beautiful beach and boating 2026 summer. On Monday afternoon as usual, went to the beach after work. When I was about to go home, around 6:00, looked around and it was just the seagulls and me.
The Hills are Alive…
Tom Glover, Vanessa Michalak, and Jan Roy
Exhibition Dates: September 4 – October 11, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, September 4, 5:00–7:00 PM
Artist Talk: Friday, September 11, 5:00 PM
COSMOS Gallery
20 Pleasant Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
Exhibition website: Landings 3 Visions
THREE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS TRANSFORM THE ENDURING TRADITION OF PAINTING PLACE
For centuries, artists have looked to the landscape not simply to record the visible world, but to interpret it. From the idealized vistas of the Renaissance through Impressionism and abstraction, successive generations have reconsidered what a painting of a place can be. In contemporary painting, the landscape may remain recognizable—or become only the point of departure.
LANDINGS 3 VISIONS
The next exhibition at COSMOS Gallery in Gloucester, Landings 3 Visions, opens September 4 and features three accomplished New England artists: Tom Glover, Vanessa Michalak, and Jan Roy. Each is an accomplished contemporary landscape artist, and together their paintings explore the territory between observation and interpretation.
Land, sea, forests, rocks, harbors, boats, and the built environment provide the elements; their three visions explore what happens between seeing a place and making a painting of it.
Tom Glover explores the New Hampshire and Maine seacoast through its harbors, estuaries, docks, rocks, boats, water, and changing coastal light. Glover’s artistic interpretation of the natural scenery exists in the space between realism and abstraction. This practice reflects the longtime influence of painter John Laurent (1921–2005), an American painter renowned for landscapes along the Maine coast. Glover may begin with direct experience, photographs, and sketches, but then uses abstraction to distill a scene, finding its essential forms and colors. Artist website: Tom Glover
Vanessa Michalak, a Maine native and Gloucester-based artist, approaches the visible world with an exuberant vocabulary of color and expressive gestures. Forests, rocks, water, gardens, boats, and harbors remain recognizable in her paintings, yet observed forms become scaffolding for something more painterly: flattened shapes, unexpected color, energetic strokes, and rhythmic movement across the canvas. As Michalak explains, her paintings are often driven by her love of “expressive mark making versus subject matter alone,” with nature providing a continual source of inspiration. Artist website: Vanessa Michalak
Jan Roy takes the transformation of place further. Beginning as a silk-screen artist before focusing primarily on oil painting, Roy brings a strong graphic structure to landscapes, harbors, architecture, and other observed environments. Recognizable imagery may remain, but it is compressed, fragmented, and reorganized into interlocking planes of color and shape, bringing the landscape to the threshold of abstraction. Artist website: Jan Roy
Seen together, the three artists reveal how elastic the centuries-old tradition of landscape painting has become. Glover distills the physical experience of a place; Michalak releases its energy through color and mark; Roy reorganizes it toward abstraction. None abandons the visible world. Each makes something distinctly personal from it.
The title LANDINGS 3 VISIONS reflects that common ground. A landing can be a shoreline, an arrival, or a point of encounter. In these paintings, it also suggests the place where observation meets imagination—three artists arriving at three very different visual conclusions.
LANDINGS 3 VISIONS continues COSMOS Gallery’s focus on contemporary art by accomplished regional artists and on exhibitions that place their work within broader currents in art and culture.
The exhibition runs September 4 through October 11, 2026. The public is invited to meet the artists at the opening reception on Friday, September 4, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. An artist talk will be held on Friday, September 11, at 5:00 PM. Admission is free.
The joys of September at Rose Baker. Cooler weather and the start of leaves turning. Daily activities can be found by going to www.gloucester-ma.gov, clicking on Departments and scrolling down to the Council on Aging. You can see our newsletter or call 978-325-5812 to get on our mailing list. For events indicating registration, please stop by or call Natalia at the above phone number. Follow us on Facebook – Rose Baker Senior Center Gloucester
Special things going on:
September 3 – 10:30 – Start of Fishtown Players Readers Theater’s 6 week program.
September 9th – 10:30 – Nutrition Education
September 14th & 21st – 1:00 -Old Salties
September 16th – 10:30 – Coffee with Elise
September 24th – 1:00 – Keys, Bags, Names, Words – Hope in Aging & Dementia Documentary (please register)
Movies on Thursdays at 12:30
September 3rd – You’ve Got Mail with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
September 10th – Goodbye Girl with Richard Dreyfus and Marcia Mason
September 17th – Smokey and the Bandits with Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason
September 24th – Splendor in the Grass with Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood
Seniors on the Go Bus – Please register
September 14th – Job Lots and Savers/Gourmet Garden
September 21st – Trader Joe’s/Putnam Pantry
September 28th – Target and Liberty Tree Mall/Wendy’s
Group Luncheon and Entertainment – Please register
September 17th – Danversport – Solid Gold’s Remember the 50’s and 60’s.
December 2nd and 3rd – Danversport – The Music and Passion of Barry Manilow
Don’t miss the special exhibition at Cape Ann Museum which closes on September 27th !
It is a celebration of the works of Milton Avery ( 1885-1965) , Adolph Gottlieb ( 1903-1974) and Mark Rothko ( 1903-1970.) The three artists were friends and came to Gloucester in the summer to paint in the 1920’s to the mid 1940’s . The paintings are colorful and exciting and give you a sense of life in Gloucester at that time . You will also get a chance to see the amazing renovations in the Museum – exquisite! Enjoy !
Treat yourself to a Lobster Roll for just $13.99 + tax, served with chips & pickles!
PLUS our bonus pizza special:
🍕 Buy any 16” pizza and get the 2nd 16” HALF PRICE!
*Limit of 2 per customer
*Excludes gluten free
*Excludes online orders
I absolutely love how, at almost any hour on any given day, you can look out into Gloucester Harbor and see so many different types of vessels. I wanted to wait for a larger fishing boat to come around the corner of Eastern Point Light House before taking this photo, but didn’t have the time. It is definitely not uncommon to catch a photo of a dragger, a lobster boat, pleasure boats (big and small), sailboats, dories, schooners, a yacht….and even, in this photo, an ultra-light hydrofoil! Love where we live!
The Primary elections are being held today from 7 am to 8 pm. There are a couple of locally pertinent primaries you might want to have a say in……I’ll be at East Veterans working the desk. Stop and say hello.
Come by with your peeps so we can take your picture with teh www.goodmorninggloucester.com Instagram Photo Frame
Bird activity is finally picking up.
Good!
