Happy Birthday James Eves!
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Nichole’s Picks 3/18 + 3/19
Pick #1: Wonka, Junior
There’s quite a buzz about East Gloucester Elementary School’s upcoming performances of Wonka Jr.
Shows on Friday @ 6:30, Saturday @ 2:00, and Monday at 6:30.
I’ve been told that tickets are $10 and are available at the door.
Pick #2: Cape Ann Youth Hockey: Girls Open House Practice on Friday, March 17th at 6:00 pm.
Pick #3: Children’s Drop and Shop at the Pingree School in Hamilton
The Drop & Shop offers a unique, extensive shopping experience for families with kids 0-16. You can shop for complete seasonal wardrobes for all your kids, or stock up on new [different] toys, games, books, DVDs, gear and furniture. There are sizes, styles and price ranges for everyone. Moms, Dads, Aunts and Grandmothers are all welcome to shop for the all the children in their life. Best brands only. All items are screened, hand-picked and approved from a team of experienced and savvy moms!
Plan for an extensive shopping experience by bringing an empty shopping bag, or three. The facilities offer plenty of room to roam. We ask – no food or drink, cash and local check only. Children are always welcome, but please consider others and make sure they stay within arms reach. Roaming children will be asked to re-unite with their guardian. It’s not okay to leave children unattended.
As always, for a comprehensive listing of family activities, please visit our friends at North Shore Kid
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New book based on a lifetime of guidance: local writer Jane Edwards shares her compelling take on elder care
Congratulations, Jane!
See Joann Mackenzie’s article in the Gloucester Daily Times about Jane Edwards new book “Caring for Caring: An Enriching, Kindhearted, Ethical Journey with Our Elders”.
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Judith Curtis at the Cape Ann Museum
Cape Ann & Beyond: Lecture by Judith Curtis
Saturday, April 1 at 2:00 p.m.
Offered in conjunction with the special exhibition, Charles Movalli: Cape Ann & Beyond.
![Charles Movalli (1945–2016), Marine Railways, 2014. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of Dale Movalli, 2016 [2016.59].](http://www.capeannmuseum.org/media/web_movalli_1.jpg)
Image: Charles Movalli (1945–2016), Marine Railways, 2014. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of Dale Movalli, 2016 [2016.59].
Author and art historian, Judith Curtis will give an illustrated lecture on one of the North Shore’s most distinguished landscape and marine painters, the late Charles Movalli. This talk will touch on Movalli’s philosophy and technique as it pertains to works in the Cape Ann & Beyond exhibition.
The cost of this program is $10 Museum members / $15 nonmembers. Space is limited; reservations required. For more information email info@capeannmuseum.org. Register by calling 978-283-0455 x10 or online at Eventbrite.
Judith Curtis is a freelance writer specializing in art-related themes and is curator of the Rockport Art Association and Museum’s permanent collection. She lives on…
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Gloucester Biotechnology Academy – Visit us at the Cape Ann Career and College Fair!
Gloucester Biotechnology Academy – Priority Applications due now!
Stop by our table at theCape Ann Career and College Fair! March 16th from 5:30 – 7:30 PM at the Gloucester High School field house. All GHS students and parents are invited.
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#NationalKickButtsDay
Your Bridge to Health; Promoting Optimal Wellness for Mind, Body and Spirit
#NationalKickButtsDay. You Can Do It!
Kick Butts Day is organized by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and sponsored by the United Health Foundation. The first Kick Butts Day was held in 1996.
Talk to your doctor about group and individualized treatment programs for smoking cessation. Stopping smoking can be a challenge. Medications for tobacco treatment along with tobacco treatment counseling may make it easier. Ask your doctor if you are a candidate for Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT,) Zyban (Wellbutrin) or Chantix.
Addiction is a ‘disease of the brain.’Nicotine addiction is no exception, and the cigarette companies know as much about the addiction pathway as healthcare providers, finding ways to make cigarettes more addictive so they can sell more cigarettes.
Collaborative, comprehensive, supportive programs make it easier to stop.
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WHERE DO SWANS GO DURING A STORM?
We friends of Mr. Swan think he is practically a genius. You would have to be, to survive the oftentimes inhospitable shores of Cape Ann. And, too, he is well over twenty years old and has out lived two mates!
Mr. Swan at Brace Cove
Mr. Swan is a species of swan called a Mute Swan, which do not migrate great distances. Instead, they move around from body of water to body of water within a region. When Mr. and Mrs. Swan were raising their young, by mid summer, when food was becoming less plentiful and water levels receding at Henry’s Pond, the entire swan family–mom, dad, and all the cygnets–would travel for the remainder of the breeding season to Niles Pond, a larger pond with a more plentiful supply of aquatic vegetation. Several weeks ago, the brackish water of Henry’s Pond thawed. Mr. Swan returned to the Pond, but then with a stretch of cold weather, it quickly refroze. He headed over to Pebble Beach to forage for food in the saltwater cove. This week, sensing the coming nor’easter, Mr. Swan moved over to Rockport Harbor, which rarely freezes, is less rough than Pebble Beach, and where a supply of food is readily available. Whether a September hurricane or March blizzard, Mr. Swan rides out the storm tucked in along the edge of pond or harbor.
Don’t you find it very interesting that although not indigenous to this country, Mute Swans have adapted many strategies for surviving our changing seasons, and with the seasonal changes, the differing types of, and amounts of, food available.
Mr. Swan at Rockport Harbor
If you see Mr. Swan at any of our local bodies of water, please be very kind to him. Dogs, no matter how well meaning, will make any swan feel threatened. And please, if you must feed him, only feed him whole corn. No junk food ever. Swan junk food includes bread, crackers, chips, and Doritos. In all the years that I have been filming Mr. Swan, never once have I fed him. Mr. Swan has friends, wonderfully kind stewards, who regularly look after his well-being, supplementing his native diet of pond greens and seaweed with cracked corn, and that is quite sufficient for his good health.
Thank you everyone for looking out for Cape Ann’s one and only Mr. Swan!
Mr. Swan at Henry’s Pond
Mr. Swan at Rockport Harbor and Niles Pond, with His Ever-present Entourage of Quackers
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LAST CHANCE TO SEE MULAN!
Last chance to see O’Maley Academy Drama Club’s presentation of Mulan
Friday, March 17th at 7:00p (Han cast)
Saturday, March 18th at 1:00p (Tang cast)
See the complete cast list at http://omaleypa.blogspot.com/
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Surfers after the storm
Ides of March and this time of day nearly a rainbow in every spray
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Left over waves from Tuesday
Took these from Shore Road on Wednesday morning. I know kayaking weather is on the way.
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Exhibition A Time for Blue at Trident Gallery, January 20–March 26, 2017
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
A Time for Blue, on view at Trident Gallery through March 26, is a themed exhibition of art organized first of all around the color blue, but strongly influenced by the many meanings and echoes of the words “time” and “blue.”
Time: era, moment, fit period; occasion; trial; tempo, meter; enforced duty; and many more.
Blue: the pure color of a clear sky; melancholy, dismal; not red; indecent; blasphemous; discolored by cold, contusion, fear, or vascular collapse; stemming from rigid morals. Blues: songs marked by frequent occurrence of blue (flatted) notes; blue military uniforms, the police; and more.
In the Trident Gallery context, the most unusual works on display are two early “Blue Dog” silkscreen prints from 1993 by the Cajun artist George Rodrigue (1944–2013), and an early pastel drawing of Gloucester from 1958 by Nell Blaine (1922–1996). Several paintings by Zygmund Jankowski and Peter Lyons have not been exhibited previously at Trident Gallery. Other works of art are shown again in the new light of this exhibition.
Gallery hours are
Friday 12–7, Saturday 10–7, Sunday 10–5, and Monday 12–5, and by appointment.
About Trident Gallery
Trident Gallery shows beautiful and intelligent contemporary art in all mediums, emphasizing the work of artists continuing Gloucester’s rich legacy as a center for new American Art. Gallery Director Dr. Matthew Swift curates and produces the exhibitions, drawing on over twenty years of multi-disciplinary scholarship, teaching, and creative exploration.
For further information, visit TridentGallery.com or call the gallery at 978-491-7785.
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Allen Estes Tonight at The Rhumb Line ~ Wednesdays with Fly Amero 7-10pm 3.15.2017
Dinner Specials Each Week!
Wednesday, March 15th – 7pm
Special Guest: ALLEN ESTES!
It becomes a songwriter showcase event whenever the great
Allen Estes takes the stage. Such will be the case once
again this Wednesday, starting 7pm. Don’t be late! ~ 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 guests…
03/22 – Charlee Bianchini
03/29 – Liz Frame
04/05 – Bradley Royds
Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂
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Kai at East Gloucester Stop and Shop Wants You To Know There’s A Gloucester Caught Case
There’s a dedicated case to locally caught seafood
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Gloucester Smiles-540
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Corliss Landing
This was the calm before the storm yesterday morning…happy we were spared the volumes of snow predicted! Now lets bring on spring!
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Way to Represent, Traci Budrow!
I watched different meteorologists and news reporters knocking out storm coverage all day long from their windy, wet, and cold vantage points on T Wharf and Bearskin Neck in Rockport…from my warm home. At one point I thought to myself, “It’d be nice to make sure they have some hot coffee since they’ve been down there for hours”….but I didn’t.
You know who did take the initiative to go take care of them though? Rockport’s Traci Budrow…that’s who! And, not just with coffee. Good job, Traci. Way to represent the charming town of Rockport.
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The Power of Play Festival is Back!
Gloucester Education Foundation is proud to host our second annual Power of Play Festival!
What: The Power of Play Festival: a day of play for ALL AGES. 
When: Sunday, March 26, 2017 11am-2pm
Where: Gloucester High School Field House, 32 Leslie O. Johnson Road, Gloucester
Who: Gloucester families and kids. Admission $5 per family at the door.
Gloucester Education Foundation’s Power of Play Festival will feature fun family activities like: an obstacle course, art projects, lego building challenges, hula-hooping, giant board games, music, dance, fort-building, goop-making, sand and water play, simon says and LOTS more.
Play promotes creativity and innovation, and helps kids develop skills that are a foundation for life-long success, including critical thinking, communication, problem solving, and collaboration.
Hosted by Gloucester Education Foundation and Sponsored by Cape Ann Savings Bank and Cape Ann Savings Trust & Financial Services Department
Gloucester Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization made up…
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Coral a protection stone…
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Gloucester Parking Ban Lifted 8PM Tonight (3/14)
@STheken: Gloucester Parking Ban Lifted 8PM Tonight (3/14) – Please remove all cars from municipal & school lots before 7AM. http://gloucester-ma.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1112
Good Morning Gloucester 