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Lone gull looking for breakfast at Good Harbor.
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Cape Ann Reads picture book contest: local artist John Bassett steps up to volunteer
Reminder in the today’s Gloucester Daily Times that the Cape Ann Reads deadline to register for the original children’s picture book contest is two weeks around the corner– November 15th. The deadline for the book submissions by registered applicants is December 15.
Thank you to Rockport glass sculptor, John Bassett, www.basglas.com
for responding to the GMG post last week calling for Volunteer artists and illustrators to assist local writers with their book submissions! There are three or four writers hoping to find a match. John made the generous offer of use of his images for a book applicant, plus the possibility of creating new work in response to their book. If you or an artist you know would like to volunteer please email capeannreads2016@gmail.com.
It’s easy to register for the Cape Ann creates for Cape Ann Reads children’s picture book contest
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Best New TV Series in a Long Time..If You Ask Me.
Like a good book, I love a TV show that leaves me bummed out at the end of an episode because I’m actually going to miss the characters while they’re away. By that I mean, that it is hard to wait for the next episode to air.
That is TOTALLY how I feel about This is Us. If you haven’t tuned in yet, you really need to. If you don’t have Netflix or On Demand or the like, you can click on the link below and watch most episodes on any device.
While I won’t do it it’s due diligence, to sum it up quickly This is Us is about life, love, relationships, friendships, dreams, successes, failures, expectations, family, laughter, tears, and maybe a bit more. The series seamlessly flips back and forth from what we are to assume is past and present. Story line layers upon story line and pieces of a beautiful puzzle are put into place. Connections are made and the big picture is revealed like in a paint-by-number painting.
Can you tell that I’m in love. Give it a shot if you’re a sap like me.
Watch the trailer below …. Below that is another scene that is pretty sad, pretty real…that also begins to lay the foundation for the rest of the show.
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Calling all high school art students: don’t miss amazing opportunity for Portfolio critique by major art schools at the HIVE tomorrow!
What a fabulous idea and experience directed by Zach O’Brien– a graphic artist, Rockport High School art teacher, and Hive gallery curator!
Cape Ann Regional Portfolio Night is Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at the Hive Pleasant Street, Gloucester from 6:30pm -8:30pm.
Great Gloucester Daily Times article by Joann Mackenzie amazing list of colleges participating and sending representatives.
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Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board Listings For 11/1/16
Welcome To Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board
A place where non-profit Cape Ann organizations can post press releases directly and then those press releases will be reposted to http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com . This is not an advertising space for businesses, fitness or wellness organizations, or music listings.
The web address will be http://www.capeanncommunity.com
To have your community organization news posted here, contact Joey C who will grant access for you to post directly.
Image ~ October 31, 2016 ~ middlestwalk ~
Backyard Growers Holiday Pop-up Shop opening!
October 31, 2016 ~ backyardgrowersgloucester ~
BACKYARD GROWERS’ ANNUAL HOLIDAY POP-UP SHOP IS IN FULL SWING NOV 1- DEC 21!
We’ve filled our office at 269 Main Street with veggie socks, garden books, children’s watering cans and more! Come shop our new and vintage funky clothes, gardening tools, cooking supplies, and books- plus our usual supply of seeds, organic fertilizers, and pest sprays.
We will be open every Monday–Friday 9 am- 5 pm
Also, shop late from 5-10 pm on Ladies Night Dec 1, Employee Night Dec 8, and Men’s Night Dec 15!
All proceeds benefit Backyard Growers’ school, community, and backyard garden programs.
Beeman Schools Fundraising Night At Jalapeño’s 11/07/16
October 30, 2016 ~ coliecatherine ~
Beeman School Fundraiser Night
at Jalapeno’S!
Monday, November 7th
4:00pm to close
Dine in or take out
+19782838228
(10% of all food purchases benefits Beeman PTO)
Don’t Forget to check out our Raffle Tickets
Be sure to come!
Don’t miss out on all the fun!
Rockport PTO Holiday Fair
Image ~ October 29, 2016 ~ rebsly ~
Beeman Holiday Fair!
October 27, 2016 ~ coliecatherine ~
You’re invited to the annual
Beeman Holiday Fair!
Saturday, December 3, 2016
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Buy your Christmas tree and wreaths
(Free local delivery!)
Play games and win prizes
Create crafts
Decorate gingerbread houses
Support our school and local vendors
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FREE!! ICE CREAM AND BEAN LEAF COFFE ON SATURDAY!
Paying it forward to help the Open Door!
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM PLUM STREET!
Getting repeat visitors–love ❤
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HAPPY HAUNTINGS!
It was a foggy moonless night in Gloucester town…
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Here is a view you miss when you sleep in
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MAC TENNIS PLAYERS RALLY FOR THE CURE
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MAC TENNIS PLAYERS RALLY FOR THE CURE
MANCHESTER, MA—July 21, 2015. On Friday evening, October 21, the MAC
Manchester Athletic Club hosted a Rally for the Cure Adult Tennis Social. Rally is a
grass roots program that works to spread awareness about breast cancer through
organized golf, tennis and social events.
This year marks the second year the MAC has rallied against breast cancer with over 70
tennis players and pros participating and over $2,000 raised.
Since its start in 1996, the Rally program has touched over 2.7 million people with the
important message that early detection and effective treatment saves lives. In addition to
mobilizing people behind breast cancer awareness, Rally events have generated over
$77 million for Susan G. Komen.
”The success of Rally is attributed to volunteer ambassadors like, Kasie Van Faasen,
MAC Membership Consultant, and Claudine Watson and Chrissy Lyons, MAC Tennis
Coordinators, who have said…
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Cape Ann Auction, Saturday November 5
Cape Ann Auction is having an Auction at Mile Marker One. Great Venue.
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Music Around Town ~ October 31 – November 5, 2016
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Stop by Harbor Cove Dental to pick up a free trick or treat bag.
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525 Magnolia Tavern Wine Dinner
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$60
Menu:
TUNA CRUDO | 2015 poggio al tesoro vermentino
PAPPARDELLE with sausage + kale marinara | 2014 donna laura alteo chianti
ROASTED PANZANELLA SALAD | 2012 querciabella mongrana
BEEF WELLINGTON, roasted fingerlings + broccolini | 2014 colombini rosso di montalcino
We look forward to hosting you.
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Haunting for Halloween: Pumpkin carving and poetry John Greenleaf Whittier & Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Jack o’lantern traditions. There’s this – our annual amateur foray
and then this public art tableau that we stop for each year, just past 370 Main Street, Gloucester (before the Crow’s Nest heading into downtown Gloucester)
The history of carving jack o’lanterns includes a description in a Victorian era poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (b.1807 Haverhill, MA-d.1892 Danvers, MA; resided/buried in Amesbury)- a Massachusetts poet, legislator, journalist, editor, Quaker, and abolitionist. Cape Ann, North Shore, Essex County, and New England appear in his prose.
Excerpt from The Pumpkin, ca.1846 Thanksgiving poem
Oh, fruit loved of boyhood! the old days recalling,
When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling!
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,
Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!
When we laughed round the corn-heap, with hearts all in tune,
Our chair a broad pumpkin,—our lantern the moon,
Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam,
In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team!
Whittier was a contributing founder of Atlantic Monthly. He was wildly popular, successful, and influential in his time. He helped many other writers. Letters to Whittier “poured in at the rate of ten, twenty, and sometimes thirty a day, making all manner of unreasonable requests and sending innumerable axes to grind…” In 1887 “deluged by over a thousand letters and manuscripts at his birthday, he put a public notice…that he could not answer any letters or read any manuscripts…”* Schools, cities and towns across the country were named after him. “People seem determined to use my name lately in many ways. Within a week I have had two ‘literary Institutes’** named for me, and a big vessel launched last week from Newburyport yard carries “Whittier” in brass letters to her element. I hope I shall not next hear of my name attached to notes of hand!”
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was “one of the many woman writers Whittier befriended, but their relationship was especially close. Whittier wrote her scores of letters during his life and they met often to discuss religious themes. Whittier once wrote of her: Miss Stuart Phelps was there-an intense nature-frail but strong-a Puritan with passion and fire of Sappho and the moral courage of Joan of Arc.”** Phelps spent her summers at the seaside in East Gloucester, and was equally compassionate about social concerns.
Whittier and Phelps joined other luminaries at gatherings held in the Cambridge home of James (editor/publisher) and Annie Fields (writer) and other salons. Who might be mixing it up there? Charles Dickens, Mary Abigail Dodge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dead Howells, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter and Whittier. Jewett, Longfellow and others visited and wrote about Gloucester. Here’s a link from the Cornell University library to Phelps’ Atlantic Monthly article The 10th of January about the tragic 1860 Pemberton Mills collapse and fire in Lawrence, MA*** (estimated 90-200+ killed), less known than the horrific 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (146 killed).
*Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier 1861-1892, Volumes I II III, 1975, Harvard, edited by John B. Pickard. Fun read! We’re told one of the colleges was Whittier college, Salem, Iowa
**ditto above and below any mentions from letters in the timeline
Selected Whittier links and timeline bits:
1908 poem: The Gloucester Mother, by Sarah Orne Jewett, copy of McClure’s Magazine where it first was published: http://www.unz.org/Pub/McClures-1908oct-00702
1904 book on Whittier: Whittier-Land: a Handbook of North Essex by Samuel Pickard, 1904
1888: Whittier “Was there ever such a droll thing?”** letter to Annie Adams Fields gossiping and happy for Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in love with a younger man “Love seems to have cured her…I feel rather aggrieved that I wasn’t consulted.” He calls her E.S.P. To Celia Thaxter who Whittier visited on the Isle of Shoals, “treasuring evenings in her parlor room where she told ghost stories or they exchanged folk tales: “What do you think of Eliza Stuart’s marriage to young Ward? He is a good fellow and Elizabeth for once in her life is happy!” Phelps married Herbert Dickinson Ward in 1888–he was 27 and she was 44. It didn’t go well: she bucked his surname within three years and wrote Confessions of a Wife in 1902.
1888 Whittier letter to Annie Fields after editing a new edition of his poetry: “I hope I am correcting a little of the bad grammar, and rhythmical blunders, which have so long annoyed my friends who have graduated from Harvard instead of a country district school.”
1886 Whittier poem: To a Cape Ann Schooner
1886 Whittier letter mentioning Elizabeth Stuart Phelps sending a “very pretty shade of fine lace work…because of its exquisite color” gift on Christmas Eve, which Whittier re-gifted 🙂
1884 Whittier letter to Annie Fields: “Have you seen Elizabeth Phelps lately? I am not in favor of capital punishment, but the burglars who robbed her of her hard earnings would fare hard if I were on the jury that tried them…”
1882 Whittier letter “The world can no longer be to me what it was while Emerson and Longfellow lived. They should have outlived me, for Emerson was never sick, and Longfellow until the last two years had splendid health. A feeling of loneliness and isolation oppresses me. But as Emerson said to me the last time I saw him ‘the time is short’ “ collection of Swarthmore college
1879 Whittier letter to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: “Dr. Bowditch says that a man of active brain ought to make a fool of himself occasionally and unbend at all hazards to his dignity.” admittedly hard for these two
1877 Mark Twain (work friend), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at Whittier’s 70th birthday celebration. Hawthorne and Whittier were not exactly fans of each other’s works.
1873: Whittier thank you note to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps for sending her book
1868: Whittier letter to Annie Fields complimenting Elizabeth Stuart Phelps The Gates Ajar “Good in itself and full of promise.” 1869 he’s promoting it to Harriet Minot Pittman
1868 Whittier thank you note to James Thomas Field for paying him the $1500 check
1866 Whittier poem: Snow bound: A Winter Idyll his bestseller and dedicated to his family- memories from childhood
1857 Whittier poem: Garrison of Cape Ann* opens with a view of Cape Ann as seen from Po Hill: “From the hills of home forth looking, far beneath the tent-like span,
Of the sky, I see the white gleam headland of Cape Ann.” For readers that have come this far–the complete Garrison of Cape Ann follows the break.
1843 Whittier poem: Massachusetts to Virginia (in reference to George Latimer, alleged fugitive slave) “The fishing smacks of Marblehead, the sea-boats of Cape Ann…” Woodie Guthrie 1958 This Land is Your Land feels like a 20th Century connection.
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