Do you want Rick Doucette To Have To Dye His Hairs Blue?
Hey Joey – I hope you’ll please share this update with the GMG Universe:
The BEARD WILL BE BLUE!
The Y Teen Leaders Club have been hard at it collecting donations and have now surpassed their 7500 goal, and if they can reach 10,000 in the next 2 days, they’ll get to dye my hair and eyebrows too! (I’ll have to wear it that way for at least one week)
100% of all non-perishable food, and financial donations will benefit the OPEN DOOR and the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
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Looking at John Singer Sargent
Dr. Erica Hirshler at the Cape Ann Museum
Thursday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m.
This lecture, presented by Dr. Erica Hirshler, Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Sargent House Museum, will explore Sargent’s heralded career and his ties to the North Shore.
Cost is $10 for CAM or Sargent House members /$15 for nonmembers. Space is limited, reservations required. For more information email info@capeannmuseum.org. Tickets can be purchased by calling (978)283-0455 x10 or online at Eventbrite.
Image: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925), The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882. Oil on canvas. 87 3/8 x 87 5/8 in. Acc. #19.124. Gift of Mary Louisa Boit, Julia Overing Boit, Jane Hubbard Boit, and Florence D. Boit in memory of their father, Edward Darley Boit.
Widely considered an expert in American painting of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Dr…
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From Paper Pods to Pea Pods: An Artist’s presentation by Lara Lepionka
FRESH presents Lara Lepionka, an artist and executive director of Backyard Growers, presenting From Paper Pods to Pea Pods. Lara will share the inspirational story of Backyard Growers, focusing on her journey as an artist to a nonprofit founder and the myriad connections between creating art and growing food.
$15 per person, limited tickets – Reserve your tickets here!
FRESH is a six-week exhibition, with accompanying workshops and presentations, hosted by the Rocky Neck Art Colony and Backyard Growers
This is an exciting collaboration by two inspiring non-profits—Backyard Growers, which encourages an active relationship with food and the earth, and Rocky Neck Art Colony, which encourages and promotes excellence in the arts.
In this exhibition, artists from all over New England will present works that reflect on the theme FRESH, exploring the ways in which food connects us to the earth, nourishes us, and ties us to warmth, family, friends, and memories. Join…
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Melissa McCarthy As Spicer Is The Funniest Thing You’ll See This Week
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The Seaside Garden Club presents The Art of the Vignette
Cheryl Monroe
The Seaside Garden Club kicks off 2017 with The Art of the Vignette on Tuesday, February 14th at the Manchester Community Center. Social time begins at 7 pm and the program starts promptly at 7:30 pm. All are welcome. Guest fee is $5.
The Art of the Vignette: A fun design presentation illustrating how to effectively use small spaces in the garden to convey a sense of drama and personal style and how to avoid common faux pas. Cheryl Monroe will teach us how to use color, design features and objects d’art to draw the eye and create fabulous vignettes that will have your visitors admiring your savior -faire.
Cheryl Monroe is one of the Seaside Garden Club’s favorite speakers. Her entertaining style and plant knowledge make her programs memorable. Cheryl is a self-taught gardener for 20 years, now a graduated Master Gardener specializing in clematis and…
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GLOUCESTER FISHERMAN’S MEMORIAL MAN AT THE WHEEL SNOWY DAY
The snow was so pretty while it lasted.
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RESPONDING TO READER’S QUESTIONS ABOUT TREE SWALLOWS
To answer several reader’s questions regarding Tree Swallows on Cape Ann –
The birds that we see flocking up and forming a murmation over Gloucester’s downtown skyline are typically European Starlings, a species that was introduced to the U.S. from Europe at the turn of the previous century. The birds that are in the film that I posted yesterday, Dance of the Swallows, are Tree Swallows. They prefer more remote areas such as sand dunes, where the swallows find a wealth of insects.
Insects comprise the bulk of their diet. Tree Swallows perch on branches, telephone wires, and in our area, commonly on Northern Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) and other dune shrubs. Most birds cannot digest the waxy coating on Bayberries, but Tree Swallows are one of the few species that can. Bayberry fruits do not ripen until September and I wonder if when migrating through Cape Ann in August, the Tree Swallows are eating the insects on and around the plants, not the unripened fruits.
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A nice day for a stroll on Singing Beach
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Quick snow whiteout Tuesday– next up Thursday and Saturday
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Hockney Hartley Whitney Wilkins
“I like to live in the now.”
David Hockney’s exhibit opens at the Tate on February 9th as the fastest selling show in Tate exhibition history. It will come to the Metropolitan Museum of Art November 2017-February 2018.
In 2013 I wrote about “A major retrospective of David Hockney’s work completed over the last decade, A Bigger Exhibition (San Francisco, de Young Museum), has generated voluminous press and praise, mostly for his legacy of embracing new technology. Oh, and how old he is now, somehow compelling him to create before time runs out…(See a good overview of the de Young exhibit on Newshour but listen at 4:24 dispensing this cliché while introducing another. When hasn’t Hockney investigated any series, media or pursuit without daunting and constant focus?)”
Marsden Hartley’s Maine will open at the The Met Breuer (former Whitney) March–June 2017. It will be at Colby (partnered with the Met) this summer. Cape Ann Museum has fantastic Hartleys.
The first Whitney Biennial presented at the new Whitney opens March 17 – June 11, 2017. Although there are no working artists residing in MA that are on the checklist, two artist filmmakers born in Massachusetts were selected: Robert Beavers and James N. Kienitz Wilkins.
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Visitors from Salem New Hampshire
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Gloucester Smiles-501
Enjoying a walk on the Boulevard on his 79th Birthday
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Joseph invites you to check out the Amazon App and get $5
Use my link to get $5 for signing into the Amazon App the first time:
http://amazon.com/mrp?refcust=JOSEP32174N&ref_=mrp_10005_shr_ss
Unless you hate money. I use it all the time.
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Hold My Beer
Ok. Maybe one more day of reveling in all that was the Super Bowl and then we’ll all move on. Or maybe not.
This is one of my favorite Tom Brady memes to come out of Sunday’s big game.
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Tonno’s Next Guest Wine Dinner March 1st Featuring Chef Marc Orfaly
More Cape Ann Dining News-
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One Billion Rising Event 2/14
On Tuesday, February 14th at 3 PM, the Gloucester Coalition for the Prevention of Domestic Abuse, Strong Men Don’t Bully, HAWC, the YWCA North Shore Rape Crisis Center and the Mayor’s Office invite you to join ONE BILLION RISING TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.
Please wear RED and bring pots, pans, and other noisemakers to rise together and demand a change!
For more information, please contact Kelley Ries, Public Health Nurse, at 978-325-5266.
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Meals on Wheels Valentines Breakfast this Friday!
SeniorCare Inc. will hold its annual Valentine’s Day Breakfast Fundraiser Breakfast at The Gloucester House, located 63 Rogers Street in downtown Gloucester on Friday, February 10, 2017, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Tickets are $12 per person and include a buffet breakfast. Tickets are available online at www.seniorcareinc.org or may be purchased at the door. Proceeds from the breakfast will benefit SeniorCare’s Meals on Wheels program. For information about the breakfast or to become a sponsor, contact Paula Curley at 978-281-1750 x-560 or paula.curley@seniorcareinc.org.
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NEW SHORT FILM: TREE SWALLOWS MASSING
This short film is dedicated a dear friend who recently lost a beloved family member. Along with the tender melody by Jules Massenet, especially the last bits of footage (before the credits) made me think of angels and of hope.
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Over the course of the summer while filming the Piping Plover Family at Wingaersheek Beach, Tree Swallows began flocking in ever increasing numbers. They became part of the Piping Plover story not only because a Tree Swallow will occasionally dive bomb a Piping Plover, for whatever reason I am not entirely sure, but also because they are beautiful to observe, and occasionally, seemingly playful, too.
Songbirds that they are, Tree Swallows make a cheery chirping chatter. They have long narrow forked tails, all the better for gliding and for their signature aerial acrobatics. The male’s upper parts are a brilliant iridescent blue-green, the female’s somewhat duller, and both female and male have white underparts. The migrating juveniles are almost entirely brown with either white or pale grayish underparts.
Tree Swallows breed in the wetlands and fields of Cape Ann. Their name comes from the species habit of nesting in tree cavities. Tree Swallows have benefited tremendously from efforts to help save the Eastern Bluebird because they also nest in the nest boxes built specifically for the Bluebirds.
Acrobatic aerialists, they twist and turn mid-flight to capture a wide variety of insects including butterflies, dragonflies, greenheads, bees, beetles, and wasps.
Tree Swallows eating insects on the beach and from the crevasses in the driftwood.
Utilizing both fresh and saltwater to bathe, Tree Swallows have a unique habit of quickly dipping and then shaking off the excess water while flying straight upwards.
Tree Swallows begin migrating southward in July and August. The flocks that we see gathering on Cape Ann migrate along the Atlantic Flyway. They overwinter in the southern states of the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. Unlike migrating species of butterflies, several generations of Tree Swallows migrate together, the older birds showing the younger birds the way.
Music composed by Jules Massenet: “Méditation” from Thaïs
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Good Morning Gloucester 