Good Morning Gloucester

Hi Joey, I took this pic Saturday morning at Wingaersheek Beach. Janice Brown from Dune Circle is in the photo. I posted on FB. She doesn’t have a FB page but a bunch of her Gloucester friends saw it & suggested I send it to you anticipating you’d post it on your blog. I am a Scituate MA resident.

The Friends of Rockport Council on Aging held their Annual Duck Race yesterday morning at Millbrook Meadow in Rockport.   Lots of “Quacky” friends helped to make this a successful event!

Pictured above: Kathy Hurlburt, Judy Tocco,Diane Bertolino, Peg Picard, Joyce Davis, Kathy Tettoni, Paula Bertolino, Faith Ronan, Charlotte Jennings

95 east main st
Gloucester MA

Welcome To Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board

Joey C ~

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.

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Hopper’s Houses Walking Tour at the Cape Ann Museum

June 4, 2016 ~ Cape Ann Museum

Saturday, June 11th at 10:00a.m.

Take a leisurely walk past select Gloucester houses made famous by painter Edward Hopper.

Guided walking tours are held rain or shine and last about 1½ hours; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. $10 members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. Call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org for details. Tickets can also be purchased online at Eventbrite.

Not a member of the Museum? Join now and get discounted tickets to all our events!

American realist painter Edward Hopper is known to have painted in Gloucester on five separate occasions during the summer months in the years 1912, 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1928. His earliest visit in 1912 was made in the company of fellow artist Leon Kroll. During his second visit to Cape Ann in 1923, Hopper courted the young artist Josephine Nivison. He also began working in watercolor, capturing the local landscape and architecture in loosely rendered, light filled paintings. In 1924, Hopper and Nivison who were newly married returned to Gloucester on an extended honeymoon and continued to explore the area by foot and streetcar. During his final two visits to the area, in 1926 and 1928, Hopper produced some of his finest paintings. This special walking tour will explore the neighborhood surrounding the Museum, which includes many of the Gloucester houses immortalized by Hopper’s paintings.

Image credit: Edward Hopper, American, 1882-1967. Universalist Church, 1926. Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper, 35.6 x 50.8 cm. (14 x 20 in.). Princeton University Art Museum. Laura P. Hall Memorial Collection, bequest of Professor Clifton R. Hall x1946-268. Photo: Bruce M. White.

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Sawyer Free Library Week of June 5, 2016

June 3, 2016 ~ sawyerfreelibrary

SawyerFreeLibrary

Gloucester High School Honors Art show and opening reception is Saturday June 4:

Where is It reception Tuesday June 7 at 3pm

Artists and participants that took the photographs will be at the reception- All photos will be on display in the Matz Gallery through June 30- stop in and see if you can figure out where the photos were taken!

This month’s Cape Ann Reads workshop is Wednesday June 15

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With Lindsay Crouse –

Joey,
I know you mentioned some of the Gloucester streets that were eliminated or renamed over the years in Gloucester.
I’ve been researching the Power family and some of their relatives who lived in the Fort in the 1860’s.
I found that on some birth certificates the home address was listed as Marginal Way. I knew they always lived as close to the wharves as possible, particularly Fort Wharf.  In later years addresses were: 77 Commercial St., 59 Fort Square and 46 Fort Square.
In the 1870-71 Gloucester City Directory it lists street names.
Beach Street–Commercial to the beach near the Pavillion.
Commercial–From Front to Fort (in 1869 directory, it says to Fort Wharf.)
Marginal Way –From Commercial south of Old Fort.
Neptune–From Commercial to the Beach.
So my ancestors didn’t move, but the streets changed names.
Anne Power Parsons

Rick and I love kayaking from Corliss Landing and up to Wingaersheek beach.  Since Saturday was a beautiful day that is where we went.