My View of Life on the Dock
Come gather at Feather & Wedge this Sunday where they will be serving some of their spectacular brunch dishes as well as a very special roast leg of lamb. View the menu here.
Sunday, April 1, 10:30 to 4:00 PM.
Reservations strongly suggested!
To reserve, call: 978.999.5917
Today’s the last day to place orders for Traditional Sicilian “Cannateddi ‘bunny cookies with Sista Felicia
Dinner Specials Each Week!
Wednesday, March 28th – 7pm
My Musical Guest: ED DALEY!
Great songs. Deep soul. Our awesome and gifted friend, Ed
Daley returns to us this week. And, hey… I’ll be there, too! ~ Fly
Dinner with great music!
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
The Rhumb Line Kitchen……now features Janet Brown with some new and healthy ideas!
Plus a fine, affordable wine menu!
Upcoming…
4/4 – Allen Estes
4/11 – Liz Frame
4/18 – Strungout Playboys
Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂
Juni VanDyke is busy working on a figurative mural series that will be installed along the Rogers side of Rose Baker Senior Center in Gloucester, Massachusetts. VanDyke resides in Cape Ann and has been the stellar Director of the arts program at Rose Baker Senior Center since 1993. Her classes are Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, “elbow to elbow on Tuesdays and Thursday mornings, and in the afternoons.” All are welcome.
In addition to teaching art classes, she rotates exhibitions of art created by participants in the various art programs. Fine artist Mary McCarl and Helen Burgess will have their work on exhibit in the lobby of the senior center beginning April 4th though July 5th.
VanDyke is also curating the show “Closely Related” for Flatrocks gallery opening May 27 – June 24, 2018. The exhibit “attempts to identify and examine artistic elements that appear congruently in works by artists related by friendship or marriage, or by filial kinship, or by the duality of artist and place, or…other. Is our art influenced by our environment; our politics; the company we keep and/or by our generic connections? And is what we create truly unique? Or was Picasso right when he said: Every painting already has a mother and a father?” Exhibiting artists: Kathleen Archer, Shelly Champion, Loren Doucette, Paige Farrell, Jay McLaughlin, Barbara Moody, Hans Pundt, Lynne Sauselle, Patti Sullivan, Juni VanDyke
Phase II Rose Baker Senior Center site for a second new Juni Van Dyke mural –after the lively figurative series is completed.
Juni’s geraniums at home and work- top floor windows at Rose Baker
Read more about Juni Van Dyke: Artist of such expressive power and spirit. Last year Room & Board commissioned art from Juni, and her illustrations for children’s books were recognized by Cape Ann Reads and will be featured in a group exhibit in 2018. The collage media informed her approach with the Rogers Street series.
Best of Friends
High tide view from the Causeway on my coffee run this morning…happy hump day!
And Neither Did Dave-
What a welcome sight!
Promoting Optimal Wellness for Mind, Body and Spirit
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Did you know that Crossfit Cape Ann offers 3 different climbing/bouldering walls? CFCA offers a monthly climbing membership that allows access to the climbing section of the gym during our normal class schedule.
If you’re interested in checking out climbing at CFCA, email us for more details and to set up a time to come check out our wall!
Looking for a deep rest and reset for Spring?! Join North Shore Restorative Yoga this Sunday 6:30pm-8pm for an evening of deep relaxation using the ancient practice of Yoga Nidra, also known as yogic sleep, led by master teacher Courtney Battistelli.
Bliss for your brain and restoration for your body and heart. You will be guided into a state of deep conscious relaxation with soothing cues and heightened awareness to progressively release tension. Yoga Nidra harmonizes brain activity and one hour of this practice is equal to four hours of sleep!
All you have to do is show up and allow yourself to be led into a state of deep relaxation for the brain, body and heart. This practice offers the body and mind a complete renewal and is a perfect way to welcome Spring!
$25 with all props including mats provided.
Sign up at www.nsryoga.com or inquire at info@nsryoga.com
Still under construction. Hoping for opening in one month. Real deal, next level Mexican.
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“We Love You Too Snowy Owl” prints for sale.
For the next two weeks, I am offering a limited edition of the photo “We Love You Too Snowy Owl.” The 8 x 12 photo will be printed on fine art hot press paper and signed. At the end of two weeks, after orders are in and checks received, I will place the order with the printer. The $95.00 price includes shipping and tax. If you would like to purchase a photo of Hedwig, please email me at kimsmithdesigns@hotmail.com Thank you!
“How much is known about the Gulf of Maine?”
“Practically nothing.”
So, according to his memoirs, went the conversation that kicked Henry Bryant Bigelow (Harvard) ’01, Ph.D. ’06, S.D. ’46, out of a rut and onto the Gulf of Maine, which he would transform from a scientific unknown to one of the most thoroughly studied large bodies of water in the world–and in doing so, set modern oceanography on an “interdisciplinary,” “ecosystemic” course before either term existed. Bigelow developed a rigorous, integrative approach to oceanography that he eloquently propagated for decades. Along the way, he served what he reckoned to be the longest tenure in Harvard’s history, working as a researcher, instructor, and professor of zoology from 1906 to 1962–for which he solicited and received, he recalled with typical humor in the memoirs, the only bottle of whiskey ever presented to anyone by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. (By David Dobbs, for Harvard Magazine) https://harvardmagazine.com/1999/01/vita.html
Fishes of the Gulf of Maine by Bigelow and Schroeder has long been known simply as Bigelow and Schroeder. Dr. Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879-1967) was founding director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://www.whoi.edu/main/profile/henry-bryant-bigelow
Photograph courtesy of WHOI archives: Dr. Henry Bryant Bigelow at the helm of Grampus in the Gulf of Maine, 1912
As we await spring and summer to get here, the kayaks are patiently waiting for the season.
Recorded 3 / 26 / 18 with hostess Alicia, B-side, and Dr. Hannah Kimberley
Episode 76!-We traveled to the Kimberly Compound for this episode! After almost a year of campaigning to sit with her, we are sitting down with PUBLISHED AUTHOR HANNAH KIMBERLEY!
Hot Plate:
**Corrections CORNER!!! We said the wrong date for the Ward 2 Meeting! IT IS April 3rd (not the 4th) at the Sawyer Free Library Friend Room.Link at the bottom of notes!
*We talk (briefly) about #MarchForOurLives
*Donorschoose.org-A crowdsourcing site for Teachers that need just a little bit more help with classroom materials. (They educate your kids..c’mon).
We talk with Hannah about the life of Annie Smith Peck, a suffragist, Mountain Climber all around badass! Hannah discusses the inspiration behind writing Annie’s Biography and what it took to get her story told. We talk about the amount of research that went in to finding out about Annie Smith Peck, between eBay Sales that never were and reading soooooo many letters! Stay tuned to the end, Hannah even hints about BOOK 2! If you haven’t picked up “A Woman’s Place is at the Top” DO IT NOW!
***More information about Annie Smith Peck and the book: https://anniesmithpeck.org/
***Ward 2 Meeting Information: http://gloucester-ma.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=6491
***https://www.donorschoose.org/
***Closet Case Event Tickets: http://gimmelive.com/closetcase.cfm
#podcast #AnnieSmithPeck #ShePersisted #MountainClimber #Biographies #Teachers #booksý
photo above- Five monumental Larry O’Toole (1909-1951) paintings circa 1948 were rescued and reinstalled O’Maley School circa 1982. Gloucester MA excellent DPW crew Mike Hale, Joe Lucido, Phil Curcuru, Mike, and John inspecting 2018 with ©c ryan. Thank you DPW! City art is routinely checked. Photo by Phil Curcuru below- note the artist’s distinct “L” signature
If you haven’t seen the series of five murals painted circa 1945 by fine artist and muralist, Larry O’Toole (1909-1951), that were rescued and installed (decades ago) at O’Maley Innovation Middle School, perhaps you’ve noticed a poster of his brilliant pictorial map around Cape Ann.
O’Toole published editions of the map in 1947 and 1948. Reproductions of “A Salty Map of Cape Ann: Gloucester-Magnolia-Rockport-Pigeon Cove-Lanesville-Bay View-Annisquam” the 1948 blue version are available at Cape Ann Museum shop. The delightful map includes inventive and intricate details and local nods: a shout out to Ben Pine’s* wharf, “All maps like this have a sea serpent;” schooners like the Henry Ford and Gertrude Thebaud (again Pine); historic sites and characteristic scenes not to miss “Artists and Seagulls”; and upcoming landmarks to look forward to like the Annisquam Bridge slated for completion in 1950. The numbered border framing elements could have been inspired by Virginia Lee Burton.close up zoomable map (sold) can be found here
Ben Pine* portrait by FSA/OWI photographer, Howard Liberman, titled “Gloucester, Massachusetts. Capt. Ben Pine, the man who raced the schooner “Gertrude Thebaud” against the Canadian schooner “Blue Nose” for the fisherman’s trophy, is one of the three men who made Gloucester. The others were Tom Carrol and Ray Adams.” (author’s note: Ray Adams was a gal so the compliment is for two men and one woman…).
Art can be seen on the walls throughout the Gloucester Mariner’s Association in Howard Liberman’s faint photos from 1941. I’m looking for more interior shots. Some of the art could be O’Toole’s, who completed commissions for Pine.
Carved fish models at the Gloucester’s Mariners Association (Fishermen’s Institute)
Good Morning Gloucester 