
Equinox Bell Ringing

My View of Life on the Dock


If you are looking for your St. Joseph’s Day groceries…Market Basket has bulb anise, fava beans, oranges, lemons and St. Joseph rolls ready for your Sunday Feast!

Four coyotes on the causeway–thank goodness for the immediacy of cell phones, but oh how I wish my camera gear was not in the back seat!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRvaELNlQCw/
Next stop, Beverly Farms.

Hi Joey,
I want to publicly thank Breakwater Construction for their random act of kindness last night.
Last night at 6:40 PM I arrived at the West Gloucester Trinitarian Congregational church to open the church for a Tuesday evening 12 step CoDA 7PM program meeting. It was rain, snow and sleet outside and the city plows had created a 3 foot wall of ice and snow on the street. The church had not been plowed yet with the several inches snow and slush.
I decided to park on Essex Ave with my four way flashers and walk in on top of the snow 75 feet or so and see if the snow shovel was next to the door. It was. I took a scoop of the snow slush 6 inches deep laden with water and the plastic shovel bent and creaked with the weight of the slush. I proceeded back to the street to shovel at least a car width in to allow for those who might have felt compelled to get to the meeting.
I took one partial shovel full of snow and saw a huge bright Red 1 ton pickup truck with a four way bright yellow snow plow blade across Essex St going toward Essex stop his truck and roll his window down. He said I can cut you a path in and move the barrier ice wall out of the way. I told him I was opening up for a 12 step meeting and I would really appreciate it.
He turned his truck around and cut a path two car width path into the full length of the parking lot , widened the street opening and left with his passenger. Just after he had departed a member of the group arrived and we drove in the space he had created and parked to be ten minutes early to open the church for the meeting.
The truck said BREAKWATER CONSTRUCTION on the side. The driver and his passenger were extremely generous of their time, equipment and kind spirit for which I and others were very thankful to be able to hold our Tuesday night CoDA meeting. This was an act of kindness that is discussed often in church but tonight clearly demonstrated by BREAKWATER CONSTRUCTION.
Sandy
I was wondering if you could share the following for some Cape Ann Youth hockey programs.
Girls open house Friday the 17th
https://www.facebook.com/events/142427856277709??ti=ia
And our challenger program:
Jessica Cusumano
CAYH Registrar
Under the weather with a two-boxes-of-tissues-a-day head cold, I haven’t been out walking as much as usual. This afternoon I popped over to Niles to take our Rosie out for a very short walk, just in time to see off in the distance a male and female Ring-necked Duck resting at the icy water’s edge, along with freshly opened branches of pussy willows. Spring is surely on her way!
Ring-necked Ducks for the most part breed further north. I imagine the little flock that is at Niles is only here for a brief period of time.
On Exhibit at the Charles Fine Arts located at 196 Main Street Gloucester.
FORM FACE FIGURE starting Saturday March 18th – April 9th
Includes Live Portrait Sessions by Geoffrey Chalmers, Eli Cedrone, and Leon Doucette

Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse

The City of Beverly and The Cabot hosted a Massachusetts Cultural Council north shore cultural district meeting today. The theater was getting ready for tonight’s sold out Celtic Sojourn with Brian O’Donovan and they still made time for the districts. Mayor Cahill welcomed the group. The current exhibition installed in this sunny space is a solo show by fine artist and commercial sign maker, Andrew Bablo.
Cultural districts and organizations coming together for this meeting included the following: Beverly Main Streets and the BAD district; Montserrat College of Art; Chris Sicuranza, Gloucester’s Director of Communications & Constituent Services,Office of the Mayor; the two Gloucester cultural districts, and local cultural council; Rockport’s cultural district; Essex Historic Society and Shipbuilding Museum and district; Historic New England and Cogswell’s Grant; Lynn’s district; Haverhill’s; and Concord’s. Concord will be hosting their regional meeting tomorrow. Currently there are 35 cultural districts across Massachusetts with 40 possible by the end of June. Salem may come on next year. Interactive MA cultural districts as Google map.

OUR HOSTS photo L-R: Kevin Harutunian, Chief of Staff, Beverly; Aaron Clausen, City Planning Director, Community Development, City of Beverly; Gin Wallace, Director Beverly Main Streets; Meri Jenkins, MCC; J Casey Soward, The Cabot, Beverly; Steve Immerman Montserrat College of Art, Beverly; Annie Houston, MCC

Driving on Shore Road, this view always makes me feel grateful.

Slated to run in conjunction with National Women’s History Month, Women of Essex Stories to Share, will be on display most weekends from March 18-April 29. The show is hosted by Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum. Lee adds:
“The motivation for this exhibit was the recognition that, while our emphasis at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum has been on shipbuilding and the men involved with it, there were many significant roles of women in the community. Hence the exhibit Women of Essex – Stories to Share. This exhibit features about a dozen women that we are featuring individually in this first phase of the project. To help scope this effort, we are focusing this phase on women who are no longer with us. These include the women that were instrumental in building the first meeting house, one of the first woman auctioneers in the country, a female professional baseball player, a woman who was a motivator behind several town projects, several individuals active in the arts, and even an enslaved woman. There will be collections of several other groups of women, namely teachers and restaurateurs, an Essex mainstay.”
www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org

Our Friend of the Blog Sandra Williams will be doing a book reading at the Gloucester Writers Center.
