My View of Life on the Dock
No matter the reality of Columbus’ voyage back in 1492, it’s a glorious thing to have a long weekend in October. Perhaps the theme of this weekend should be one of discovery. Sometimes we seek the discoveries and sometimes they seem to seek us. I’d like to be open to them when they present themselves. It’s easy to cloak ourselves in the weight of daily responsibilities and neglect to look beyond the next task on the list. Here’s hoping you discover something new this weekend!
Special Fall art shows today, Monday, and throughout October
Annisquam Arts & Craft Show today only Oct 8
Cape Ann Artisans trail today and Monday
Peabody Essex Museum Ocean Liners today and Monday CLOSING OCT 9TH
American Craft Week Oct 6-15 goodlinens event, Local Colors, Pauline’s gifts, DIVa, and more
Cyclocross is Oct 14 & 15 2017
Cape Ann Cinema & Stage Doctobrefest Documentary Film Festival Oct 13-19
Cape Ann Cinema & Stage Scary Movies all October Why should Salem have all the fun?
Cape Ann Cinema & Stage with UU Church SILENT horror movies- Hunchback of Notre DameOct 17, 7:30PM featuring world famous pipe organ maestro Peter Krasinski
FANTASTIC Rockbound at Cape Ann Museum CLOSING oct 29
Photos: 2017 Annisquam Arts & Crafts Fair
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Join us for the Businesswomen’s Fall Luncheon at the Gloucester House on Thursday, October 12 from 11:30 AM-1 PM. Local Author Hannah Kimberley, author of “A Woman’s Place Is at the Top:The Biography of Annie Smith” will be our Guest Speaker. Click Here to purchase your ticket.
The Businesswomen’s Committee raises funds for the Carolyn B. O’Connor Scholarship Fund. This is a Scholarship awarded each year to a woman who is going back to school to finish her education, and now seeks to better her position in life. We are very proud to fund and award this Scholarship.
To support this scholarship and join for the luncheon, click here to register.
Krasinski begins the program with a thrilling organ prelude followed by the hilarious film “The Haunted House” starring Buster Keaton. The Maestro will play the grand 1893 Hutchings-Fisk pipe-organ in the darkened Sanctuary, improvising the accompaniment to the 2 great silent film classics.
ADMISSION: $20 General, $15 Students & Seniors (65+), kids under 12 free.
Proceeds benefit the ongoing Fire-Sprinkler & Deterrence Project in the Meetinghouse. Special thanks to our sole corporate Sponsor for this family-friendly, community event: the Cape Ann Savings Bank
Located on the green at the intersection of Church & Middle Street…
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Guselli writes-
Hi Joey,
I came upon this beautiful large dream catcher on my walk yesterday at Plum Cove Beach. Another reason to love Lanesville!
From several mornings ago, of the full October Harvest Moon. As the sun was rising, the moon was clearly visible over the Harbor and from the vantage point of the Dogbar Breakwater.
Monarchs were streaming all along the coast of Cape Ann yesterday and it was a beautiful sight!
Please help towards the completion of my documentary film Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly, filmed in the wilds of Cape Ann and Angangueo. Thank you! DONATE HERE.
Thank you to Meg and Donna Stoman for sharing this fantastic story of a 70 mile wide “butterfly cloud!”
DENVER STAR
DENVER—A lacy, cloudlike pattern drifting across a Denver-area radar screen turned out to be a 110-kilometre-wide wave of butterflies, forecasters say.
Paul Schlatter of the National Weather Service said he first thought flocks of birds were making the pattern he saw on the radar Tuesday, but the cloud was headed northwest with the wind, and migrating birds would be southbound in October.
He asked birdwatchers on social media what it might be, and by Wednesday had his answer: People reported seeing a loosely spaced net of painted lady butterflies drifting with the wind across the area.
Schlatter said the colours on the radar image are a result of the butterflies’ shape and direction, not their own colours.
Midwestern radar stations occasionally pick up butterflies, but Schlatter believes it’s a first for Denver.
An unusually large number of painted ladies, which are sometimes mistaken for monarch butterflies, has descended on Colorado’s Front Range in recent weeks, feeding on flowers and sometimes flying together in what seem like clouds.
Sarah Garrett, a lepidopterist at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colorado, said people from as far away as the Dakotas have called to report seeing the butterflies, whose population typically surges with plentiful flowers.
Research on the painted ladies in North America is limited, but scientists believe they migrate to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico in the fall. In Europe, studies using radio tracking have shown they migrate south from Europe to Africa in the fall and return in the spring. Studies also show that monarch butterflies often use wind to their advantage and glide on currents for periods of time, Garrett said.
An irruption of Painted Ladies is occurring in the northeast and throughout the U.S. Painted Ladies drinking nectar at Seaside Goldenrod.
Compare the larger Monarch (top) to the smaller and richly patterned Painted Lady.
Joey I’m Edwin from Tacos Lupita can u help me spread the word..A quick update on the donations to Puerto Rico. We have 2 containers of donations but we have the money to sent only one so far. So I ask the community of Gloucester one more time to help collect 6k to pay for the other container. God bless.
Even though the sunsets are earlier, the clear air seems to make the colors of the sky pop.
Twin Peaks: The Return– the roadhouse closing credits at the Bang Bang Club were excuse me damn fine music, chimed with each episode, transcending. (Maybe David Lynch can check out the Gloucester music scene and vocalists. Who should he listen to?)
From the series- “No Stars” vocals REBECKAH DEL RIO, Moby (guitar) Nick Launay (keyboard), Mick Flowers (drums) co-written by David Lynch, John Neff and Del Rio
“Wild West” LISSIE Twin Peaks closing credits
The Abram Piatt Andrew Bridge, the crowning achievement of the decade long Route 128 (Yankee Division Highway) is the gateway to Cape Ann and has been my view for the past five years. It was completed in 1953 and named for our Congressman(1921-1936) A. Platt Andrew. It is a four lane, steel arch span over the Annisquam River. To me it is a ever changing work of art, different in every light and every season. One of the treasures of Cape Ann and Gloucester.
I met Erik from PTS Tours during one of his tours to Gloucester from Wisconsin, he was headed to the Gloucester House with approximately 40 tourists anxious to have flavor of Ne England
Every year we get together as a family and stomp some grapes, taste a little of last year’s harvest and enjoy some good food and great company! We usually only get 3 or 4 days notice as to when the grapes will arrive, so after receiving the call Wednesday, we are in full prepping mode today to get those 576 pounds of NEBBIOLO grapes from Italy, stomped and on their way to be bottled for us to enjoy as a family throughout the year! 
I wanted to share some information on the City of Gloucester Animal Advisory Committee. We are a great group of volunteers who are helping to advise the city on all matters pertaining to domestic and wild animals in the city of Gloucester. We hope to share animal related information with the public and help to make positive improvements.
Since we are in the off-season and the pups now have their beaches back, we want everyone to have fun and stay safe. We have posted some information on our website pertaining to dogs on the beaches, you can also find this on the City of Gloucester’s website.
Dogs shall be allowed on public beaches from October 1 to April 30.
Unleashed dogs shall be allowed on the beaches as follows:
Currently we are collecting data on any coyote sightings in the city. We are collecting this information so that we can document areas where coyotes are frequently seen and identify any conflict hotspots, in order to assist with any education or mitigation efforts.
If you have any experiences please submit them via our website: https://gloucestercoyote.wordpress.com/coyote-sightings/
We have a yard audit on the site that you can follow to coyote (and other animal) proof your yard.
We have monthly committee meetings that are open to the public for any comments, our meeting schedules will be posted on the City of Gloucester’s calendar.
Please follow us on Facebook or visit our website:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GloucesterAAC
Website: https://gloucestercoyote.wordpress.com
After a brisk walk at Ravenswood (where the ticket for admission is apparently a dog), we decided to have some lunch at
Destinos!
We shared a linguisa sub and enjoyed a trip to the salad bar. Cannot resist the bread they use! It’s a friendly, neighborhood place and it was about half full of people enjoying their lunches. I overheard a first-timer, as well as gentle ribbing from some obvious regulars. Quick, reliable service in a genial atmosphere.
After lunch, I succumbed to my sweet tooth and we visited Nichols.
Yes, there is a piece missing…..and NO I am not sharing.
Good Morning Gloucester 