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Will Pittsfield museum be the pits? Last ditch attempts to keep the art in MA
Will Pittsfield’s Berskshire Museum earn a derisive eponymous nickname?
The Berkshire Museum wants to sell its core collection, 40 works including two Norman Rockwells, a lovely John LaFarge Magnolia, a Vuillard, Calder’s first public commissions, and other high lights* for an expansion and redirection. The deaccession has been denounced in art news headlines for the past year, and defended by its museum board. Various alternatives have been batted about including merging with Williams College or moving the art to other MA institutions. Two of the works to be sold were given by the artist, Norman Rockwell. Three sons of the artist are suing to keep the art at the museum. The barbershop depicted in Rockwell’s April 29, 1950 Saturday Evening Post cover was located in East Arlington, Vermont. The Rockwells moved from VT to Stockbridge in 1953. If it’s sold and leaves MA completely, I hope it ends up in a museum near East Arlington, VT.
The auction sale dates are closing in. Crowdfunding for legal costs ramped up, but only recently. Visit the trending gofundme campaign Save the Art Save the Museum https://www.gofundme.com/savetheartsavethemuseum
The Rose Art Museum and Detroit art sales were thwarted. However, full court PR campaigns weren’t launched for an auction sale, which is now the case with the Berkshire Museum upcoming sales at Sotheby’s.
- Sotheby’s slide show announcing the sale of the Berkshire Museum collection
- *Berkshire Eagle complete list and images of the 40 works headed to auction
PITTSFIELD — Three sons of artist Norman Rockwell went to court Friday to stop the auction of 40 works owned by the Berkshire Museum, including two donated by their father. Their action represents the clearest challenge to date of the museum’s plan, announced in July, to sell art to improve its balance sheet and to renovate its South Street facility. – By Larry Parnass
map of Massachusetts museums-
In addition to the Berkshire Museum pieces, the upcoming Sotheby’s sale on the 13th includes artists with connections to Gloucester such as Anna Hyatt Huntington, Paul Manship and Milton Avery:
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Sunset from Rafe’s Chasm
So beautiful out there at anytime, but on Thursday was able to get out before it gets too dark and so the sun going down.
Looking east from the Chasm, the color was forming
Facing west where the sun was going down very quickly
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If your body could speak what would it say?
Join Christina as she discusses cravings, weight imbalances, fatigue, heartburn, and the body’s many cries for help, and what they mean. This event is open to the public, so you do not need to be a CFCA member to attend. Since it is being held at a gym, please feel free to bring a beach chair as seating may be a bit limited/creative.
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Half Off Sushi Today At The Studio On Rocky Neck October 21, 2017
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7th grader MIT fan wins 3M competition
Gitanjali Rao, 11 year old from Colorado and huge fan of MIT, was inspired to invent a better way to test water for lead. Her idea won the 2017 3M America’s Top Young Scientist competition. Here’s an excerpt from Laura Wamsley story on NPR: “I went, ‘Well, this is not a reliable process and I’ve got to do something to change this,’ ” the seventh-grader told Business Insider. Rao tells ABC that while she was doing her weekly perusal of MIT’s Materials Science and Engineering website to see “if there’s anything new,” she read about new technologies that could detect hazardous substances and decided to see whether they could be adapted to test for lead.
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Taking a Dive
Some of the divers we saw on Loblolly Cove today. I heard them report visibility was expected to be great! Good for them. I’m more of a landlubber and prefer my visibility to be mostly dry.
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USS CONSTITUTION 220 YEARS OLD TODAY!
USS CONSTITUTION was launched on this day in 1797 and remains in active service today at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
One of my great memories will always be riding into Marblehead Harbor during the 200th celebration in July 1997. Happy Birthday USS Constitution!!!
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Gloucester cyclecross
Last week-end’s international event at Stage Fort Page …..just a few photos.
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Visitors from several cities, grouped together for the photo
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No Butts about it
We’ve been curious about what’s been going on at the corner of Herrick and Main, near the Crow’s Nest. So GMG Jimmy set about to find out!
Artist Susan Waller has been working on this project for about a week and expects it to take another 10 days or so. It is her way of asking smokers and other litter-ers to think twice about creating pollution. Susan says “I’m a smoker too and I say, if you are going to smoke, clean up after yourself.” Yes, please. Clean up after yourself just like Mom taught. Thanks GMG Jimmy for helping out here.
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John Abisamra Footbridge Photo
Hi Joey
Attached is a photo I took from the foot bridge of Good Harbor Beach as the sun was rising on the horizon. The title of it is simply “Good Morning Gloucester”. My favorite place to watch the sunrise is from the footbridge of Good Harbor Beach. Many people will be either walking the beach or parked in their cars waiting for those magical moments. It is an awesome way to start the day!!.
Have a great day!
John Abisamra
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Check us out in this months @northshoremag . An amazing spread of our #bluefintuna from the summer.
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SeniorCare Fundraiser Breakfast at Lobsta Land
SeniorCare Inc. will hold its annual autumn fundraising breakfast at Lobsta Land Restaurant, located on Causeway Street in Gloucester (Route 128, exit 12) on Tuesday, October 24, 2017, from 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Tickets are $12 per person and include your choice of pancakes, French toast, eggs, or a fruit plate with yogurt. Tickets are available in advance online, by calling 978-281-1750, or may be purchased at the door. Proceeds from the breakfast will benefit the full spectrum of programs offered by SeniorCare.
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Partnering With Clean Gloucester To Distribute Auto Cigarette Butt Containers
Thanks Ainsley For Dropping Off A Bunch Of Cigarette Butt Holders To Distribute. Already Passed Out Three To Our Fishermen.
Anyone can come down and get one for free, you don’t need to be one of our fishermen,
Captain Joe and Sons Lobster Co
95 East Main St
Gloucester MA
Click map for directions-
You can also pick them up at Extreme Truck and Auto repair on Kondelin Rd and Maplewood Car wash On Maplewood Rd.
A Great Program to Keep Cigarette Butts Off The Street! Check out Clean Gloucester On Facebook Here-
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IT’S A FROG’S WORLD!
Upcoming film projects and studying the life story of our beloved Mr. Swan led to learning more about the life story of many creatures found at our local ponds. Frogs in all their myriad incarnations I soon discovered were the keystone species, playing starring roles as both predator and prey. American Bullfrogs are by far the most common, but I also filmed Green Frogs and Wood Frogs. I shot hundred (perhaps thousands) of photos of frogs, and hours of footage too, and have only begun to organize, but here is a small sampling.
American Bullfrog Snatching a Bee Mid-air
Young Bullfrogs lay in wait for bees and other insects drinking nectar from the pond lilies. They’ll sit stone still for half an hour and in some cases, even much longer, for the perfect moment. The smallest Bullfrog can leap several feet across the water and lily pads to snatch an insect mid-air.
Half tadpole, half frog, froglets are outgrowing their tadpole stage, but are not yet fully fledged frogs.
When the hunter is hunted. Birds and otters feast on tadpoles, frogs, and froglets. Larger Bullfrogs are cannibalistic and eat smaller versions of themselves. First hatch-year Little Blue Herons (pictured) eating a frog in the above photo and a froglet in the photo below.
More about pond life coming soon!
If you would like to 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, Mexico, please consider making a tax deductible donation here:
DONATE HERE
Donors contributing over $5,000. will be listed in the credits as a film producer.
For more information, visit the film’s website here: Monarch Butterfly Film
For an overview of the film’s budget, please go here: Budget
Thank you so very much for your help.
With gratitude,
Kim Smith
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Action photos and Sail GHS announces 5pm Wednesday talks!
Hilary shares photos from the last sails of the season and announces upcoming Wednesday 5PM talks:
“Here are some pics from yesterday as we wind down our season on the water.
Sail GHS will be conducting weekly chalk talks at FHL House with visiting experts in the field (notably, our own coach, Gordon Baird ,as well as Jamie Chicone,stationed here with the USCG, aboard Key Largo) every Wednesday @5 PM with pizza to follow. Visitors are welcome.
FHL House is the Fitz Henry Lane House at Harbor Loop. They “sail Mon-Thurs, 3-5:15 thru Oct 27”. Go check them out and join in sometime!
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Welcome A New American
On October 19, Barbara and I had the honor and pleasure of attending the Naturalization Ceremony for about 350 new American citizens in Faneuil Hall in Boston. Our son-in-law, Jonathan Appavoo, was among those who took the historic oath of citizenship. Jonathan is married to our daughter Ann and is father of our youngest grandchildren, Shanti and Raj. Jonathan, a computer scientist and professor at Boston University, and family are currently living in Bangalore (Bengaluru)in southern India during Jonathan’s sabbatic leave from B.U. He is helping Microsoft discover ways in which technology can be best developed and used to improve the well-being of Indians of lower socio-economic status in that class conscious nation.
The Naturalization ceremony was moving. Hundreds of immigrants from every corner of the world raised their right hands and swore, not only allegiance to the United States, but also implicitly,their resolve to become active, thoughtful and informed citizens. Taking the oath in Faneuil Hall placed Jonathan and his fellow new citizens in a direct line of those seeking freedom and liberty, from our founding ancestors to all those others who have not yet been able to fulfill their dreams of becoming new Americans.
Having just made the 24 hour flight from Boston to Bangalore with his family a few weeks ago, Jonathan flew back for the swearing-in and, he hopes, will be in the air, brand new American Passport in hand, heading east very shortly.
Here are some photos. Jonathan is wearing an orange jacket and white-framed glasses.
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Good Morning Gloucester 