Maddie, Owen, Cole and Avery have been staying with Papa and Nonnie since Sunday night. We are having such a great time with them. So far, beach, Maritime Gloucester, Lego Land, Mile Marker to swim, Wingaersheek Beach and today the beach with Aunts and Uncles. Lots of fun and so grateful we live where is so much to do.
Saw The Effect @GloucesterStage last night | stellar acting and writing
We like to support Gloucester Stage and Heidi Dallin, and try to see anything with Lindsay Crouse. There’s no question that Gloucester Stage productions are mostly terrific.
Tom Hauck’s GMG review compelled us to see the New England premiere of The Effect, Lucy Prebble’s 2012 dramatic play at Gloucester Stage. It’s a go see for sure! I think it’s the best play about thorny life and medical themes since Wit. We can delight in Prebble’s dynamite dialogue because the direction, acting, and set are pitch perfect.
Who knew? You can bring that glass of prosecco you didn’t finish back to your seat.
Buy seats on line for Gloucester Stage matinee today and you’d have time to make it over to Windhover’s dance tonight! Tough summer living here in Gloucester 🙂
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Visitors from Peabody
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Gloucester Smiles-658 (AB)
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Weekend vibe
Starting this long weekend with my feet in the sand. Love this place we call home!
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Sawyer Free Library, Week of July 3-8, 2017
The Writer’s Group at the Sawyer Free Library
Each person is invited to bring their current work to share (fiction or non-fiction). We will read & discuss & provide constructive support. Meets the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month from 10:30am-12:30pm in the Muzzey Room. Next meeting Saturday, July 8!
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EOIN VINCENT SHARES A VINTAGE CLASSIC PHOTO OF GLOUCESTER’S MAIN STREET
Check out Eoin’s Blog 18 Haven here for more beautiful vintage Cape Ann photos and stories on the life of Ken and Elizabeth Vincent.
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KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR BLACK SWALLOWTAIL CATERPILLARS
Reader Elizabeth R. in Essex shares her Black Swallowtail caterpillar snapshot. She has ten on her dill plants!
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Joey doing yoga
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[edit] 8AM: What? This was not posted by Paul T Morrison and RD. Someone may have hacked my account or someone at GMG is playing tricks. I’ll leave it up because it is hilarious.
I have a much better one of Joey “doing yoga”.
This is Joey doing yoga the last time he actually went up to his ankles at Niles Beach:
Electronic fingerprints!:
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Are fishcakes obsolete? __ No. 12 from Al Bezanson
It was 90 years ago this week that COLUMBIA landed a trip of 350,000 pounds of salt cod for Gorton Pew. According to Gordon Thomas in Fast and Able (1952), it proved to be the last fare of salt fish landed by a Gloucester vessel and taken out at a Gloucester wharf. We can guess that much of the fare was processed into fish cakes, which at that time had been made famous by Gorton’s, who was running half-page ads in the New York Times for their canned Ready-to-Fry. “Feed a family for 25¢. Prepared in a few minutes.” The alternative – start soaking your salt cod the day before yesterday to have fish cakes today.
The fish had been caught by dory hand lining and COLUMBIA set off July 3rd 1927 on her second dory hand lining trip. She never returned. The crew:
Lewis Wharton, master, 57, married, Liverpool, N.S.
Rupert Bragg, cook, 46, married, 92 Dakota street, Dorchester
Arthur Firth, married 60, Shelburne, N.S.
James MacAloney, single, 24, Parrsboro, N.S.
Isaac Gould, married, 60, 31 1/2 Rogers Street, Gloucester
Colin Hawley, married, 30, Blackburn place, Gloucester
William Colp, Bucksport, Maine
Leo White, Bucksport, Maine
James McLeod, 63, Liverpool, N.S.
Foster McKay, single, 20, West Green Harbor, N.S.
Clayton Johnson, 26, West Green Harbor, N.S.
Joseph Mayo, 54, Halifax, N.S.
Thomas Hayden, 39, Shelburne, N.S.
Carroll Williams, married, West Green Harbor, N.S.
Enos Belong, 54, married, West Green Harbor, N.S.
George Williams, 56, Liverpool, N.S.
Frank Dedrick, 52, Shelburne, N.S.
Allison Firth, cachee, 17, Shelburne, N.S.
Samuel Belong, single, Green Harbor, N.S.
Robert Steward, married, Liverpool, N.S.
George H. Mayo, 28, Halifax N.S.
Charles L. Huskin, single, 39, Green Harbor, N.S.
Photo credit: Leslie Jones. “ COLUMBIA heading for the banks”
Boston Public Library: Accession# 08_06_007032
Al Bezanson
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THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY…AND OTHER TALES OF WOE fROM THE SUNDAY GREASY POLE #greasegang
Photos of our Sunday Greasy Pole Walkers walking The Walk. Congratulations again to second time winner Jake Wagner, who was walking in memory of his Dad, John Wagner. Sunday was one of the most exciting Greasy Pole events ever, with outstanding walks and legendary losses.
Lenny Taormina, the agony!
Jake Wagner Sunday Greasy Pole Champion
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Clematis
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Fog lifting
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This Weekend in the Arts
Artist Drawings & Paintings:
A Juried Exhibition of
Contemporary Works
July 7 – August 6, 2017
Artist Reception:
Saturday, July 8, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
The Rocky Neck Art Colony’s Cultural Center Gallery
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 12:00-6:00 PM
Iris Osterman ~ Drawing #8
Barbara Moody ~ Knots1
The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) is pleased to present “Artist Drawings & Paintings” a juried exhibition of contemporary works by eleven artists chosen by an art colony committee of jurors. This work is on view at the Cultural Center for five weeks beginning July 7 and continuing through August 6, 2017. The public is invited to meet the artists at the opening reception on Saturday, July 8, 4:00-6:00 PM. Light refreshments and beverages are served.
Oil drawings and pencil paintings? Many artists do both; some very traditional, some not connected to their paintings at all. Artwork selected for this exhibition represents the variety of ways artists approach the techniques of drawing and painting. The jurors for this exhibit sought works that are referential, visually connected, or an entirely separate exercise of expression as well as the use of a strong mix of materials. Artists were asked to classify works as a drawing or a painting to recognize the individual approaches to each discipline. This show gives viewers a chance to consider both sides of painting and drawing and gain a rich insight into artistic process.
RNAC welcomes eleven artists, many from Massachusetts, including Terry Del Percio, Otto Laske and Rokhaya Waring from Gloucester, Susan Emmerson of Dorchester, Eleanor Fisher from Lynn, Stephen Godlieb of Dover, NH, Anne Johnstone from Somerville, Barbara Moody from Beverly, Iris Osterman of Lincoln, Regina Piantedosi from Boxford and Rocky Neck and Julia Van Houten from Jaffrey, NH.
Surf’s Up at the Cape Ann Museum’s
White-Ellery House on Saturday, July 1st!
Insights On Site
A series of one-day installations at the Historic White-Ellery House
The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present Surfs Up! on Saturday, July 1 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the White-Ellery House (1710), located at 245 Washington Street in Gloucester.
Stop in for a rare chance to see a huge collection of vintage surfboards compiled by Cameron Ahearn, Kerry Sullivan and Jamie Hosker. Boards range from the mid 20th century through the present day. The collection was compiled by Cameron Ahearn’s father and once adorned the walls of The Studio Restaurant on Rocky Neck. This program is free and open to the public.
The White-Ellery House (1710), owned and operated by the Cape Ann Museum, has served as the backdrop for a series of one-day contemporary art installations since 2010. The House is located at 245 Washington Street in Gloucester and is free and open to the public on select Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each month from May through October as part of Escapes North 17th Century Saturdays.
Insights On Site – 2017 Season
June 3
Reading the Past: A Calligraphic Installation — Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord
Using excerpts from the 1848 journal of a 13-year-old Gloucester girl, Gaylord’s installation will bring the rhythms of everyday life alive through her subject’s observations of school and home.
July 1
Surf’s Up! — Cameron Ahearn, Kerry Sullivan and Jamie Hosker
A rare chance to see a collection of surfboards ranging from the mid 20th century through the present day. The collection was compiled by Ahearn’s father, and once adorned the walls of The Studio Restaurant on Gloucester’s Rocky Neck.
August 5
Sphere — Sarah Slifer Swift
In this durational performance, Swift and company explore women’s social and political power through the lens of the historic White-Ellery House. Using movement, film and sound, the performers will examine the complexities of labor, value and respect, as they have been gained, lost or changed over time.
October 7
Taking Care — Alyssa Pittman
In this installation Pittman explores the universal ritual of sweeping and investigates the act and practice of “taking care” of the spaces and places around us. Her work is inspired by the craft of broom making, by the broom as a powerful icon and by sweeping as a symbolic act.
Support for these programs was provided by The Umberto Romano and Clorinda Romano Foundation which celebrates Umberto Romano’s (1906–1982) legacy on Cape Ann through arts education and appreciation and by fostering the work of emerging and/or working artists.
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GLOUCESTER STAGE’S “THE EFFECT” IN THE NEW YORK TIMES!
Summer Is the Time for Stretching
Relaxing on the beach? Dozing by the pool? Not these writers and performers, who are using the warmer months to take some risks, test themselves and expand their talents onstage.
Brad Hall
Over a span of some four decades in which he helped found Chicago’s Practical Theater Company, with an ensemble that included his future wife, Julia Louis-Dreyfus; acted for two seasons on “Saturday Night Live”; created the TV sitcoms “The Single Guy” and “Watching Ellie”; and wrote comedy movies including “Bye Bye Love,” Brad Hall says he has few career regrets.
“That’s because I have a selective memory,” Mr. Hall joked in a recent phone interview. A bit more sincerely, he added: “Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done. So now I decided to say yes when people ask me to do them.”
Among the opportunities that Mr. Hall has embraced in this more receptive mode is the Gloucester Stage Company’s summer production of “The Effect,” by the British playwright Lucy Prebble.
Photo Credit: Cody O’Loughlin for The New York Times
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TICKS CAPE ANN
Check out this terrific new community Facebook page created by David Calvo, Ticks Cape Ann.
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Half Off Sushi At The Studio Today Friday 6/30/17
Address: 51 Rocky Neck Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930
Open today · 11:30AM–12AM
Menu: studio-restaurant.com
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Half Off Entire menu At The Rudder Today Friday 6/30/17
Address: 73 Rocky Neck Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930
Hours: Open today · 4–10PM
Phone: (978) 283-7967
Menu: http://www.rudderrestaurant.com
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Visitors from Deatsville Alabama and Peabody
Visitors from Deatsville Alabama wait for the Water Shuttle at harbor Loop.
Visitor from Peabody Mass, enjoying an afternoon on Stacy Boulevard.
Good Morning Gloucester 