Good Morning Gloucester

Pick #1:  Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast at Cherry Hill Creamery in Danvers

READ ALL ABOUT CHERRY HILL AND GET DIRECTIONS HERE

Pick #2:  Family Show Shoe and Winter World Hike at Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary

READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE

Family Snowshoe and Winter World Hike

Sponsored by Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary

Sat, Feb 04, 2017 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Location:

Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Topsfield

Instructor:

Cori Brauer – Education Coordinator

Audience:

All (suitable for children 6 – 16 years)

Members:

Adult $8.00, Child $7.00

Nonmembers:

Adult $10.00, Child $8.00

Nonmembers can join today during checkout and take immediate advantage of member prices.

Have you ever wanted to try snowshoeing but didn’t know where to start? Are you looking for a way to spend some time with your family outside this winter? Join us for a leisurely snowshoe hike through our sanctuary. Along the way, we will search for animal tracks and keep our eyes open for wildlife. If you’d like to join us and don’t own snowshoes, we’ll provide them for you. Snow or no, we will enjoy a wonderful winter hike and end with some hot chocolate to warm up!

Instructions and Directions:

Meets in the Barn. Please dress for the weather.

Registration is required.

Register online or call 978-887-9264 to register by phone.

Register by mail: program registration form (PDF 66K)

For your own security, DO NOT send credit card information via email.

For more information, contact:

Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary

87 Perkins Row

Topsfield, MA 01983

ipswichriver@massaudubon.org

Pick #3:  Patriots Weekend at LegoLand Somerville

Show your New England Patriots pride this weekend and save! Visit LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Boston wearing your Pats gear this Saturday and Sunday and you can get $5.00 off your walk-up admission ticket!

READ MORE AND GET DIRECTIONS HERE

As always, for a comprehensive list of family activities, please visit our friends at North Shore Kid.

The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) and Backyard Growers will host FRESH, a six-week exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck February 2, through March 12, 2017 and accompanying workshops and presentations. 

This is an exciting collaboration by two inspiring non-profits—Backyard Growers, which cultivates an active relationship with food and the earth, and Rocky Neck Art Colony, which encourages and promotes excellence in the arts.

This partnership exhibit and events, are sponsored by Duckworth’s Bistrot, Short & Main, Artscope Magazine; as well as, Patty Knaggs Real Estate, Peter Dorsey North Shore Abodes and Neptune’s Harvest.

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. FRESH is the sense of new life that emerges as we leave the dark of winter for the optimism of spring. Contemporary, experimental and traditional art in all media will be on view. Artwork for the exhibit was chosen by juror, Dawn Southworth.

Backyard Growers is a Gloucester-based grassroots organization helping to reshape Gloucester’s relationship with food. They provide resources and support to establish vegetable gardens at homes, housing communities, organizations, and schools. Their mission is to create life-long gardeners inspired by the power of growing one’s own food.

 “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”—J.R.R. Tolkien

Rocky Neck Art Colony member artists and Backyard Growers volunteers have created lectures and workshops to accompany the exhibition.  Lara Lepionka, an artist and Executive Director of Backyard Growers, will give an artist presentation at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, on February 9.  Three workshops (February 16, March 2, and March 9), will be presented at the Backyard Growers headquarters, 271 Main Street. The closing reception on March 12, 2-4 p.m. will include a raffle of a wonderful basket of gifts donated by Gloucester and Rockport merchants.

FRESH Exhibit Companion Events At A Glance:

• Feb 4 – Opening Reception/Raffle Launch (6 Wonson Street) 5-7pm
• Feb 9 – From Paper Pods to Pea Pods, an artist’s presentation by Lara Lepionka, Artist and Executive Director of Backyard Growers (6 Wonson Street) 7pm
• Feb 16 – Pressed Flower Art Workshop and Free Seed Swap (271 Main Street) 7pm
• Mar 2 – Seed Starting and Eco & Produce Printing Workshop (271 Main Street) 7pm
• Mar 9 – Square Foot Gardening Workshop  (271 Main Street) 7pm
• Mar 12 – Closing Reception/Raffle Event (6 Wonson Street) 2-4pm

To register for workshops please visit http://www.backyardgrowers.org/events/. Proceeds from FRESH  events will be shared equally by Rocky Neck Art Colony and Backyard Growers.

 For More Information:

• Email RNAC at info@rockyneckartcolony.org
• Visit Backyard Growers’ website at www.backyardgrowers.org
• Dawn Southworth www.dawnsouthworth.com

SPONSORED BY:

Cape Ann Museum Offers Adult Drawing Workshop with Gabrielle Barzaghi

 The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to offer a three week drawing workshop with visual artist Gabrielle Barzaghi. The workshop will be held on Thursday February 2, 9 and 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Museum’s Activity Center and galleries.

Cost including materials is $85 for Museum members/ $100 for non-members. Space is limited, reservations are required. For more information please contact info@capeannmuseum.org. Tickets can be purchased by calling 978-283-0455 x10 or online at Eventbrite.

Drawing from still lifes and in the Museum galleries, participants will practice basic drawing skills such as visual measuring, line, value, composition and perspective. The class structure will remain flexible to allow for each individual’s drawing ability.

Gabrielle Barzaghi is a visual artist and former Senior Lecturer in Art and Design at Suffolk University. She is a Gloucester resident.

Workshop Schedule:

• Session One will meet in the Museum’s Activity Center. Basic observational drawing techniques will be covered by showing examples, demonstration, and practice.
• Session Two will involve drawing in the galleries from sculptural forms focusing on structural line, value, and volume.
• Session Three will include compositional analysis and the study and copying of a masterwork in the Museum’s collection.

 The Cape Ann Museum celebrates the art, history and culture of Cape Ann – a region with a rich and varied culture of nationally significant historical, industrial and artistic achievement. The Museum’s collections include fine art from the 19th century to the present, artifacts from the fishing, maritime and granite quarrying industries, textiles, furniture, a library/archives and two historic houses. For a detailed media fact sheet please visit www.capeannmuseum.org/press.

The Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $10.00 adults, $8.00 Cape Ann residents, seniors and students. Youth (18 and under) and Museum members are free. For more information please call: (978)283-0455 x10. Additional information can be found online at www.capeannmuseum.org.

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TBT Post responds. 

To be clear Donna and I tried to reach out several times. 

From TBT Post-

Hello and good morning GMG,

TBT Post Gloucester would like to  enlighten you in reference to your Blog. We have always enjoyed a great business relationship with you. Therefore, surprised you did not contact TBT Post to verify the information m the Blog.

Please see the attached Blog below.

Mario and I are heart broken that the TBT Post Store in Gloucester is closed. The blog was like a stab in the heart.

The Blog has a picture of TBT Post Rockport Store “last month” and a picture for “this month” showing the new art gallery located their.

TBT Post Rockport Store closed in a great injustice to us and Cape Ann at the end of September 2016 and not last month.

The communications that TBT Post sent out on January 16, 2017 was 100% true that the store was not closing. What happened after January 16th 2017 was even more of a surprise to us than anyone.

TBT Post Gloucester, Rockport, Salem and Beverly did not closed the joint/s as mentioned.  Instead we lost all of our stores in an injustice put upon us. Not only did we loose the stores we lost every penny the company owned.

I was in Gloucester this past Monday and was immediately surrounded by shop owners and customers asking us to please come back. Thank you to all of them.

As I have always said over and over again from the heart we love you Gloucester!!!

Mario and Richard had a meeting just yesterday discussing how to raise funds to come back. Including discussing other options to come back to Gloucester since we grew so attached to the community, business partners and our customers as well.

TBT Post had a great business plan for Gloucester 2017. We would like to mention a few as follows:

1. A marketing campaign entitled “Eat & Shop Gloucester Main Street.” TBT Post customers would be allowed to come into the store and receive a 10% discount off their entire order by showing a current day receipt from any restaurant and/or food & beverage establishment on Main Street. Once the pilot proved to be effective it would be expanded out to all of Gloucester food & beverage establishment and the new hotel.

2.  TBT Post kicked off Christmas and the New Year 2017 by providing a 25% discount to all business owners and all their employees. This was working and was to be rolled out to Gloucester City Hall in 2nd Quarter 2017.

3. TBT Post had a third business plan as follows:

TBT Post was greatly concerned that Main Street did not have enough retail stores. Mario and Richard were discussing putting together two completely new clothing lines in 2017 that would open two more retail stores on Main Street fall of 2017. Two more additional clothing stores on Main Street would have been great for the community.

Note: The two new store on Main Street would have been open 7 days a week just like TBT Post was.

The reason TBT Post Stores were forced to closed was due to an unscrupulous person from Rockport who decided to swamp our business in legal proceedings to the point that the company had to close in order to regroup.

Rockport store at 8 Dock Square last month-
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Rockport Store Dock Square Location today

Thank you

Richard P. Fenk

Mario A. Bravo

fenk.bavo@verizon.net

“We love you and miss you Gloucester MA!!!! “

Here’s a little sunrise from the other morning at Long Beach to give us a little boost through Wednesday!

My little hockey players loved this video. Some friendly competition and some impressive shooting….kind of fun to watch.

The student.

The teacher.