Little guy just looking around
A couple of Merganser, they are so cute
Ducks enjoying themselves
The Magnolia 525 Tavern Updates
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Hannah Jumper is a Patriots Fan
Super Bowl Sunday and I cannot get down to Woods Hole to visit my parent’s graves to tell them about Brady’s shot at getting ring number five (they were wicked Pats fans) so I am adopting someone no longer with us who is a local.
Hannah Jumper would have been 220 years old when the Patriots won their first Super Bowl. Everyone thinks of Hannah as a party pooper but I am willing to bet she would have cheered Vinatieri’s field goal to squish the Rams waving her hatchet around. I’m sure she would be wearing jersey Number 12 today and having a brew because time marches on, the Red Sox and the Patriots are World Champions several times over and Feather & Wedge Tavern is having a Super Bowl Party in Rockport.
Still can’t get used to it. The championships. A beer in a Rockport Tavern. What is the world coming to? 🙂
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Trash talk on twitter: Museum of Fine Arts Boston Patriots vs Atlanta’s High Museum #MuseumBowl plus Smocks and Jocks Fine Art Super Bowl auction
MFA highlight Thomas Sully (American (born in England), 1783–1872) The Passage of the Delaware, 1819
MFA John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815) Mrs James Warren (aka Mercy Otis-Patriot, writer), ca.1763
High Museum collection: Richard Misrach (American, born 1949) Untitled #892-03 photograph, 2003
Check out the museums’ twitter accounts @mfaboston vs @HighMuseumofArt. For more fine art and football see
Super Bowl weekend super fundraiser: Smocks & Jocks
The National Football League Player’s Association (NFLPA) held the 12th annual ‘Smocks and Jocks’ Fine Art Auction and Jazz Brunch featuring art created by active and former NFL players (and others). The benefit raises money for the Gene Upshaw Player Assistance Fund.
“Our players are so many different things…The original thought was to create an opportunity for former players to come to the Super Bowl in a more relaxed atmosphere and to show a different side of the professional athlete by them being able to display their art.”
video below caption: Super Bowl XLVII (2013) Washington Redskins Andre Collins interview- time stamp at 2:20 pans through 2013 auction items
Ceramic art patterned after Minnesota Lakes by hall of fame Carl Eller–former defensive end Minnesota Viking star– was commissioned for the new Vikings US Bank Stadium.
“Carl Eller provides artwork for new Vikings Stadium” youtube clip below
And for Craig Kimberly – Baron Batch (Bansky of the NFL) and fellow former Steeler teammate John Malecki founded Studio A.M. Gallery in Pittsburgh
Flashback: visiting Clark Museum to see Bierstadt’s Puget Sound on loan from the Seattle Art Museum thanks to the Patriots Super Bowl XLIX win. (If Seattle Seahawks won, Homer’s West Point Prout’s Neck in the Clark would have gone west.)
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GHS Girls Hoop vs Saugus
The GHS girls played a tough back and forth game only to loose in last few seconds to Saugus.
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Game day grub!
Everyone is prepping for the big game tonight and here my husband has some baked beans in the Dutch oven and smoking on the Traeger for 5-6 hrs…they smell amazing already! Later we will be throwing some drumsticks, wings and buffalo turds on there. Go PATS!
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Jeffrey Bolster and “The Mortal Sea”
Saturday, February 18 at 2:00 p.m. at the Cape Ann Museum
Join author and Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, Jeffrey Bolster, for a discussion of his book The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (Harvard University Press, 2012).
Cost is $5 for Museum members / $10 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Registration required; please call (978)283-0455 x10 or register online at Eventbrite. For more information email info@capeannmuseum.org.
Licensed for many years by the U.S. Coast Guard as “Master of Motor, Steam, and Auxiliary Sail Vessels of not-more-than-200-tons upon All Oceans,” Bolster continues to mess about in boats. He earned his undergraduate degree at Trinity College, his MA from Brown University, and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He lives with his wife Molly in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and when not in Plymouth they can likely be found sailing their Valiant 40,
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Who ya got? Eric Lorden’s Pats or Craig Kimberley’s Falcons
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Rotary Polar Plunge Video
Hi Joey – As requested, I’ve uploaded a video of the hardy souls who did the Polar Plunge today to support the Rotary International campaign against polio. There were about 200 plungers and watchers. And, a good time was had by all.
Long Beach at Cape Ann Motor Inn: air temp 35◦F, ocean temp 43◦F, wind 13 mph
The footage [approx. 9 minutes] is not edited so here are some time stamps:
0:00 Prelims and herding the Plungers
4:20 Introductions
6:00 Running and plunging into the ocean
6:38 Running out of the ocean
7:00 Recovery: Finding clothes and warming up
Please post. Thanks very much, Lucinda Seigel, Cape Ann Communications
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HELP FROM READER REGARDING BARRED OWL IN OAK TREE
Recently a reader wrote the following about her Barred Owl:
-There is one in my yard-Have heard him at dusk and my husband has seen him twice in the stand of oak trees near my front door around 6:30AM-Same place I have heard him-You are welcome to come try and get a picture-Patti
Please contact me Patti. Unfortunately your email address is coming up anonymous in the comment section. I can be reached at kimsmithdesigns@hotmail.com. I would really love to come and record audio of your Barred Owl. So very much appreciate your kind offer. Thank you!
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LIVE FROM THE FUN AND FABULOUS FRESH SHOW AT THE ROCKY NECK CULTURAL CENTER!
Your antidote to February ~ don’t miss the beautiful FRESH show at the RNCC!
The gallery exhibit runs from February 2nd to March 12th. For the full schedule of events and workshops held in conjunction with the exhibit visit Backyard Growers Events here.
Leon Doucette “Barn Shelf Arrangement” Oil Painting
Stevens Brosnihan’s “Colony” Photograph
Leon Doucette “Stopping to Think” Oil Painting
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Sun Rise Sunset February 2, 2017
Sun Rise on Shore Road
Sunset near Magnolia Pier
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2016 Pigeon Cove Ferments Harvest Is In The Books
More Cape Ann Dining News-
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Passports Community Dinner Feb. 7 in Support of Period Partners!
Passports‘ Community Dinner this month will support Period Partners, a local charitable initiative raising money to provide menstrual products to local shelters and The Open Door. Access to menstrual products is a basic survival need, but for many people in America this need goes unmet. Period Partners seeks to address this need on Cape Ann in collaboration with Women’s Equality Cape Ann (WECANN!) and The Open Door. As usual, Passports will donate 10% of all meals sold between 4:30 and closing to this month’s organization.
If you’ve been thinking about a night out, why not consider Passports next Tuesday! The food is great, it’s a worthy cause, and it promises to be a fun night! Reservations recommended.
And we thank our community for all the support so far!
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A Night of Music by Nollege~ To benefit the Rockport Youth Baseball and Softball 9:30pm @ The Rhumb Line 2.4.2017
Also, The Early show @ 6pm with The Bob Davis Trio and special guest: Josh Davis
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Julie Rhodes Band w/ These Wild Plains opening @ Katrina’s Saturday 9pm February 4th
http://www.julierhodesmusic.com/
Katrina’s feels blessed to have this rising star returning to perform with her kickass band for the 4th time at our venue.
It was a special year for Julie Rhodes, the Boston based blues-rock singer who released her debut album in March and just won the 2016 Boston Music Award for “Best New Artist.”
Julie was also nominated for
Album of the year
Female Vocalist of the year
Americana Artist of the year
https://thesewildplains.bandcamp.com/
Julie’s opening act will be These Wild Plains
THESE WILD PLAINS – “Miss Me When I’m Gone”
reservations recommended ( limited seating)
(978)515-7817
You do not want to miss this show!
* in lieu of door charge, please tip the
musicians if you can.
14 Rogers St
Gloucester, MA
Call (978) 515-7817
https://www.facebook.com/katrinasgloucester/
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Gloucester Smiles-499
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Pasta Day at Sista Felicia’s is underway!
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Prepped and ready: Rotary Club of Gloucester polar plunge fundraiser today! So many come they park at Good Harbor before heading to Long Beach
#endpolionow
TODAY! 10AM-2PM
The Rotary Club of Gloucester hosts the 7th annual regional fundraiser to eradicate polio. Brave and generous dippers will park at Good Harbor, shuttle past Uncle Tony (Precision Roofing Services of New England) to Cape Ann Motor Inn and Long Beach waters. Hundreds of supporters will be on hand to watch as many fearless participants dive in for a purpose– including more than 20 Gloucester High School Interact club members and the new Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce President, Sarah Young, Director of Development for Schooner Adventure. It’s a colorful crazy sight and an inspiring cause. To donate and learn more visit the Rotary Club of Gloucester: Freezin’ for a Reason: The Rotary Club of Gloucester Hosts a Polar Plunge to Make Polio History
Donations are tripled by the Gates Foundation.
Good Morning Gloucester 