Accident on Cherry Street clearing up Gloucester 👮 on it
Car hit bus towed off
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Of the 226,000 North Shore jobs, how many do you think arts and culture?
In 2014, the Massachusetts labor force was 3,570,000 (vs 3,626,800 in February 2017 ); and the North Shore accounted for 6.3%. Yesterday, the US Dept of Commerce Bureau of Economics announced the state by state breakdown of arts and culture employment –for the first time ever– based on the 2014 national data. MA arts and culture jobs were reported to be 128,350, and 3.6% total MA labor. Various reports overlap categories. Sometimes “Health and education” are packed together or “arts, entertainment, recreation and leisure”. In MA top industries such as Financial services (20%), Technology, Medicine and Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Fishing, and Tourism (125,000–note how similar in size this is to the arts and culture jobs) are discussed.
Massachusetts Work Force and Labor Area Review (2015). pp44-45
US Dept of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis reports the following MA stats: “The states with the highest concentration of arts and cultural jobs, with their location quotients: New York (1.47), Wyoming (1.30), Washington (1.28), California and Utah (both 1.17), Rhode Island and Colorado (1.13), Alaska (1.11), Massachusetts and Oregon (both 1.09)…The Location Quotient (LQ) is a measure of an industry’s concentration in a state or region relative to the industry’s national concentration. • As for compensation, in 2014 Massachusetts and NEFA had an LQ of 1.02 and 0.94 respectively. • In 2014, Massachusetts had a location quotient of 1.09 for ACPSA employment. In Massachusetts, therefore, ACPSA employment was 9 percent above the national average. By comparison, the LQ for arts-and-cultural employment in all states belonging to the U.S. regional arts organization NEFA (of which MA is a member) was 1.03 or 3 percent above the national average.
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Dogtown Clean up
Saturday, April 29, 2017 clean up. Thank you Allen for sending me this poster.
Hi Donna,
Here is the information on the event Saturday as well as a poster if you want to share. Thanks so much!
“Join us for a couple hours picking up trash and debris from the trails near the Cherry Street entrance of Dogtown. We will be meeting by the Dogtown sign next to the parking spaces (the white one with the crude map on it) to divide up into a couple teams and distribute gloves and trash bags. At 8am we’ll head out to tackle the trails – as we fill up bags, we’ll be leaving them in a designated location for the DPW to later pick up, so part of our job will be hauling trash out of the woods to that point. When 10am rolls around, some people will want to leave for the sustainability fair at O’Maley just down the street, and for those who stay we’ll be doing a short (no longer than an hour) hike around the Babson Boulders. Dogtown guru Mark Carlotto may even show up to share some of his knowledge with us!”
http://towngreen2025.org/sustainability-fair/
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Chick Marston Tonight with Fly Amero @ The Rhumb Line 7-10pm 4.26.2017
Dinner Specials Each Week!
Wednesday, April 26th – 7pm
Special Guest: CHICK MARSTON!
As far as Cape Ann is concerned, it all started with this guy,
the one and only Chick Marston. A true original, Chick was
doing his fingerpickin’ folk-blues thing way back in the 1960s
when I was just a kid on a path he’d blazed for us all.
7pm! ~ 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…
5/03 * Ron Schrank
5/10 * Tony Frontiero
5/17 * Inge Berg
5/24 * Jon Butcher
Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂
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GHS Softball vs Saugus
The GHS girls play a great game and remain unbeaten in their 5th game of the season.
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Gloucester Smiles-582
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I got sunshine…
Some days you just have to make your own sunshine! Happy hump day! It’s almost Friday 😀
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Mother’s Day Brunch from 10am-3 At Tonno
Very Excited to announce our Mother’s Day Brunch from 10am-3 and we are open for regular dinner service after…
Appetizers
-Tuna Tar Tare
-Raw Oysters
-Shrimp Cocktail
-Nicoise Salad with grilled Tuna
-Zucchini Flowers, herbed ricotta and tomato
-Beet Cured Salmon
-Spring Salad with baby kale, fava beans and asparagus
-Orrechiete with peas, mascarpone and pancetta
Breakfast
-Omelette – Lobster, scallion, potato & crème fraiche
-Omelette – Shiitake Mushroom, zucchini, mozzarella
-Vanilla French Toast & Berries
-Poached Eggs – Stone & Skillet English muffin, hollandaise &
pancetta / add Crab
-Pork Hash, Fried Eggs, English muffin, home fries
-Panini “la plancha” – Prosciutto, roasted peppers, mozzarella
-Scrambled eggs, bacon home fry potato and grilled bread
Entrees
-Chicken Parmigiano
-Eggplant Parmigiano
-Veal Milanese
-Spaghetti and Meatballs
-Cod Oreganatta
Sides
-Thick Cut Bacon
-Sliced Virginia Ham
-Home Fry Potatoes
-Bloody Mary’s and Champagne Cocktails too!
You can book online by clicking here
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Sawyer Free Library, Week of April 25-29
Poetry Without Paper Submissions Due This Week!
Submission Deadline Extended Until MAY 12th for ‘Where Is It?’ Photo Exhibition
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Dry Dock
Things colorful kayaks are all lined up waiting for someone to take them for a spin.
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Where is it Photo Exhibition
This exhibition is held in the Matz Gallery at the Sawyer Free Library.
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SAVE THE DATE FOR MY UPCOMING PROGRAM “BEAUTY ON THE WING: LIFE STORY OF THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY”
On Thursday, May 4th at 7pm, I am giving my lecture with photos, “Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly,” along with several short film screenings, for the Salem Garden Club. For more information, see the events page of my website. I hope to see you there!
Newly Emerged Monarch Butterfly and Sunflower, Gloucester
Beauty on the Wing ~ Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly
The Monarch’s life story is one of nature’s most incredible examples of adaptation and survival. But the Monarch migration is in great peril. Learn how you can help. Through photographs and discussion, Beauty on the Wing tells the life story of the Monarch Butterfly, the state of the butterflies migration and why they are in sharp decline, and the positive steps we can take as individuals and collectively to help the Monarchs recover from the devastating effects of habitat loss and climate change. (1-1.5 hours).
Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis and Marsh Milkweed
Monarchs Awakening
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Italiano Restaurant and Bar a must!
The most anticipated restaurant opening this year has arrived! Italiano Restaurant and Bar downtown is a must try! My son, Tyler, and I went down on opening night and they killed it! Atmosphere is great, polished decor and a seasoned staff. They won me over and i’m sure they will win you over too.
Continue reading “Italiano Restaurant and Bar a must!”
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CHECK OUT RESTAURANT ITALIANO LUNCH AND DINNER MENUS–YUMMMMM!
Italiano’s dinner menu-
Italiano’s lunch menu –
Italiano is located at 64 Main Street. For more information, call 978-559-7638.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTUXKh5lMo0/
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Stop. . .Reflect. . .Smell The Flowers
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Look what I saw at Clark Pond
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John Tarrant on Koans and Creativity
Our upcoming event is on Wednesday, April 26 – at 7 PM – at the Rockport Community House, 58 Broadway, Rockport, MA – just a few doors down from our gallery.
John Tarrant will be giving a talk about the dynamics between koan study and the creative process.
John Tarrant is a Western Zen Master, ground breaking author, and Founder/Director of the Pacific Zen Institute in San Francisco — an organization devoted to koans, the arts, and spirituality as a creative act. He has pioneered the development of koans as a method for understanding the mind in Western culture. John has a PhD in psychology, teaches physicians and executives at Duke Integrative Medicine, and for many years had a practice in Jungian psychotherapy.
It is quite an opportunity to bring someone of his caliber – and so involved in the creative process – to Cape Ann.
For our upcoming exhibition on the 13th of May, we have sought out 8 conceptual artists – all Alumni of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts – to explore the philosophy and use of koans — taking inspiration from John Tarrant’s seminal work “bring me the rhinoceros, and other zen koans that will save your life.”
koan is a genre defying exhibition – opening May 13 at iartcolony
with 2 performances:
— Furen Dai unveils her newest video performance, “The Inner Mind of a Translation Machine,” and
invites viewers to her participatory performance – 500 Buddhas.
— Monica Lynn Manoski reads poems from her work, “The Reading Dress.” — through text, video, performance, sculpture, photography and painting, eight conceptual, Boston-based Alumni from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts examine the dynamics between koan study and the creative process
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BREAKING: NEW RESTAURANT ITALIANO ON MAIN STREET GRAND OPENING TODAY!!
Congratulations to Deo and Paula Braga, and their son Dominick, for the grand opening of the Braga’s newest venture, the restaurant Italiano. Today’s joyful ribbon cutting ceremony was attended by Mayor Sefatia, Ken and Kerry from the Chamber, family, friends, and Barry Pett, who was representing Senator Bruce Tarr. Located at 64 Main Street, Italiano is serving lunch and dinner daily in an elegant yet child friendly atmosphere. The menu looks delicious and the staff are simply terrific. For information about hours and seating call 978-559-7638.
Snapshots from this morning’s ribbon cutting ceremony.
Mayor Sefatia sharing history about Gloucester’s Militello family photo, circa 1952
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Generous Gardeners
Thank you Generous Gardeners for this great event that will be taking place on May 6, 2017. For more information please go directly to their website at
http://generousgardeners.org/
The boulevard already looks beautiful.
TULIP FESTIVAL May 6th
Gloucester Tulip Festival, Saturday May 6, 2017
May 6th is the Ribbon Cutting Celebration for the new Stacy Boulevard gardens and the completion of the seawall reconstruction project.
The festivities will begin at 10:00 AM with an old-fashioned promenade from the Stage Fort Park Visitors Center to the Fishermen’s Wives Memorial. Participants are encouraged to dress in their best and stroll with neighbors and friends. Free and open to all. Prizes awarded based on elegance, creativity and floral inspiration. Prizes are baskets of tulips with gift certificates.
1. Best Bonnet (female)
2. Best Chapeau (male)
3. Best Pram
4. Best Walking Stick
5. Best Children’s Outfit
6. Best Headdress
7. Best Overall (male)
8 Best Overall (female)
9. Best Couple
10. Best Family
Following the promenade, Gloucester’s mayor will officially open the Boulevard with a ribbon cutting. The Promenade’s Grand Marshall, William Taylor will then announce the winners. Generous Gardeners volunteers will be available all afternoon to answer questions and provide interesting tulip trivia.
Generous Gardeners planted over 22,000 tulips for a spectacular show of color and form in shades of pink, purple, yellow, orange and red. Generous Gardeners is a volunteer group of local gardeners who care for over 22 public spaces in Gloucester. There are two tulip festival fundraising events planned. The movie Tulip Mania will be shown April 29th at the Cape Ann Cinema and Stage on Main Street. Doors open at 7:00 to mix and mingle. The film starts at 7:45 about the spectacular tulip speculation in 1637 Holland. $15/per person. The second event is a fundraiser party on May 6th at the Mile Marker starting at 6 PM and featuring the Honky Tonk Women’s Band. $20/per person. These events benefit Generous Gardeners and the Stacy Boulevard Gardens.
Free Parking at Stage Fort Park. Handicap/senior parking at Kent Circle. Promenade contestants must register at 10:00 AM at Stage Fort Park Visitors Center, but all are welcome to participate.
Please note our fabulous fundraiser trip to Amsterdam below. If you would like a ticket supplies are limited, email susan@generousgardeners.org and she will reserve one for you. Call 781-346-1363 with questions.
May 6 Generous Gardener Tulip Festival Poster
Raffle for All Inclusive plus Airfare for 9 day Amsterdam Tulip River Cruise
Good Morning Gloucester 