MAJESTIC OLD OAK TREE AT STAGE FORT’S HALF MOON BEACH DOWNED DURING STORM

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So very sorry to see the beautiful shade-providing old oak tree taken out by the nor’easters.Cressy’s beach was hit hard, too, with mountains of rocks displaced and the ramp leading to the beach severely damaged. Both Stage Fort beaches sustained quite a bit of erosion.

Jeannette Steele Esposito One-Artist Show

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Jeannette Steele Esposito One-Artist Show

One if by Land – An exhibition of recent paintings by artist Jeannette Steele Esposito will be on view Saturday, March 31 – Thursday, April 12 in the Marguerite Pearson Room of the Rockport Art Association & Museum (RAA&M).  An artist’s reception will be held on Saturday, April 7th from 2 – 4 PM.  The exhibit highlights the joys and perils of living by the ocean.

“Painting, for me, is all about color and form…Harmony and Balance. The vibration of one color reacting to another, like music. One note in relation to the next, the spaces between the notes…The joy of the brush dancing across the canvas, The Jazz Of It All!”
– Jeannette Steele Esposito

More info about Jeannette Steele Esposito: http://www.paintingsbyjse.com/
For more information on this and other shows, please visit the RAA&M’s website at www.rockportartassn.org

RAA&M March Hours:  Open Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5 PM.

RAA&M April Hours:  Open Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM; Sunday, 12 – 5 PM.

Backyard Growers supports the Cape Ann License Plate!

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In 2017 Backyard Growers received $5,000 from the Cape Ann Community Foundation founded by the Cape Ann License Plate for their project entitled “Backyard Growers Farm to School”, to expand their schoolyard garden program.

The 2018 grant application are available now for non-profits on Cape Ann.

The CACF IS A 501 (c)(3) non-profit foundation, established by the Cape Ann Chamber Of Commerce to manage the proceeds of the Cape Ann License Plate, and make yearly grants in support of the Cape Ann Community.

If you don’t have a Cape Ann License Plate please go to Lovecapeann.com and purchase one today! There is a direct link here on the blog for your convenience.

Repairing Long Beach Rockport Mass after storm damage|Busy New England DPW crews

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Marveling at the tenacity of coastal towns- Cape Ann public works after winter storms are no joke.

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Rockport, Mass. The many access stairs for the Long Beach pedestrian walkway are put back each spring. Some years, the landing platforms on the sand side need repair. The 2018 winter storms pummeled each and every access point. Landings on sand and up top, the railings, and treads were entirely stripped. The rebuild for a few of the staircases will remain on hold until their immediate seawall areas are tended.

Water shoes this summer

From there to here: popples and rocks from the decimated barrier wall between Long Beach and Cape Hedge Beach were deposited along Long Beach.

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barrier wall displaced and great swaths landed on Long Beach

Where’s the beach?

Spring 2018, the ocean is several feet deep at the rip rap line every high tide

spring high tides- the water seems extra deep at rip rap as if could dive in-ocean against seawall- no beach at all most day albeit low tide

Evolution of damage at beach barrier

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Visitors from Wenham and Beverly

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Couple from Wenham enjoy a walk on Stacy Boulevard

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Couple from Beverly watch the surf on the backshore

Havana Night at Mile Marker One!

Posted on by Nichole S.

I don’t make a habit out of smoking cigars, but I might for this fun night.  Our friends at Cape Ann’s Marina Resort and Mile Marker One are always cooking up some new kind of fun. Tickets are limited so purchase your now at the link below.

READ MORE AND PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

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Annual Cape Ann Farmers Market Fundraiser in ONE WEEK! (Monday April 9!)

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Don’t miss CAFM’s annual Dinner & a Movie Fundraiser! With delicious food from Duckworth’s Bistrot, Short & Main, Cake Ann, and A&J King, a special Gloucester Writers Center Fish Tales, and Martin Scorsese’s short film “Italianamerican,” you can support our community farmers market AND have a great night out!

Get your tickets today! This event sells out EVERY YEAR! 

https://www.capeannfarmersmarket.org/events/2018/4/19/dinner-a-movie

cafmmovienight2018Haven’t heard of this year’s film? Take it from the Museum of Modern Art on Scorsese’s “small, deeply personal documentary”:  

“In three–quarters of an hour, the three manage to cover a great deal of ground, most notably the parents’ experiences growing up in the rough-and–tumble New York tenements during the early years of the twentieth century…

Scorsese and his mother moving into the kitchen for a quick lesson on how to make tomato sauce—or “gravy,” as Catherine (and an entire generation of Italian Americans) would call…

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ThinOptics- Reading Glasses With Holder that Attaches To Your Cell phone- Game Changer.

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ThinOptics Reading Glasses + Black Universal Pod Case | Classic Collection, Black Frames

Jeff Amero had these at Tonno, Chris has them, Mike has them, total game changer.  They are so thin the holder attaches to the back of your cell phone or cell phone case and the small unobtrusive readers can be pulled out for those few times you need them, for instance – reading a menu in a restaurant.  Perfect.

NINE ALEWIFE COUNTED FROM THE NEW FISH COUNTING STATION!!

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It’s a little too cold and a little too early in the season for the Alewife to run, yet despite today’s 44 degree temperature, Gloucester’s new shellfish warden Tammy Cominelli shares that nine were counted from the Little River’s brand new counting station on Saturday!

Today marked the official opening of the station with Mayor Sefatia and members of SumCo eco contractors, NOAA, and the Mass Division of Marine Fisheries in attendance.

Tammy Cominelli (Gloucester Shellfish Warden), John Catena (NOAA Fisheries Restoration Center), Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken, Anna Macan (NOAA Fisheries Communications), Jen Goebel (NOAA Fisheries Communcations), Max Schenk (City of Gloucester Health Department), Michael Pentony (NOAA Fisheries – Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator), and Travis Sumner (SumCo co-founder).

* Unfortunately, I did not get everyone’s name. Please let me know if you know the names of the gentleman in the far back row and the gentleman to the far right. Thank you!

Tammy Cominelli, Gloucester’s new Shellfish Warden, checking the water temperature.

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In Massachusetts, the Alewife run between late March through May (when the water temperature is 51 degrees) and Blueback Herring run from late April through June (57 degrees); both species use the Little River to spawn at the freshwater Lily Pond.

The river herring begin their spring journey by swimming from the Atlantic Ocean, traveling through the Little River brackish, marshy basin.

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River herring travel upstream to the little pool just below the Lily Pond, where they then swim up the new ladder, called an Alaskan sea pass, to spawn.

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Here the adults will stay for about three to six weeks. Unlike salmon, which spawn and die, river herring that survive spawning take the return trip back to the sea.

Lily Pond snowy spring day

After the baby herring hatch, they live at the Lily Pond anywhere from one to three months. Once they have grown large enough, the young herring begin their journey to the Atlantic Ocean, first migrating down to the Little River basin, which is a mixture of both fresh and sea water, and then slowly out to the open sea to join large schools of Alewife and Blueback Herring.

River herring return to their home river to spawn once they become adults, in three to five years.

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