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Gloucester Smiles ~ with a Jeff Waver Painting
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Start your own colorful cupboard!
I love going to the Empty Bowl Dinner sponsored by the Open Door Food Pantry. My cupboard is colorfully decorated with my bowls from each year and I look forward to picking out the perfect bowl again at this year’s event on May 12th! Last year I was fortunate enough to photograph the event and captured this photo of the potters hands as she was demonstrating the bowl making process. This Saturday the Open Door is hosting a bowl painting party from 10-12 at 28 Emerson Avenue, Gloucester. You can contact them to reserve a spot (see info below)….and make sure you paint a pretty one for me!
Come decorate a bowl for the annual Empty Bowl Dinner. Painting is free. Reservations are required. RSVP volunteer@foodpantry.org
We are asking people to lend their talent to paint a bowl that will be glazed and fired and then made available at our main event, the Empty Bowl Dinner.
You can read more about the main event here: http://www.foodpantry.org/01_About_Us/empty_bowl.html
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The Academy at Penguin Hall
This looks to be a fantastic new option for High School aged girls.
The Academy at Penguin Hall, in Wenham, is scheduled to open its doors in the fall for its very first class of students. Be there from the beginning.
Read All About Penguin Hall HERE and call to schedule a tour.
The Academy at Penguin Hall’s Mission is to educate, enlighten and empower young women to live and to lead exemplary lives.
The Academy at Penguin Hall is an independent, college preparatory secondary school for young women, rooted in the Catholic tradition of education which is committed to developing the whole person; intellectually, spiritually, socially, physically and creatively.
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#GloucesterMA Built!- J&L Welding Marine Talking About The Different Types Of Dock Systems They Build
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What Is A Green Community? Should Rockport Become One?Forum March 24th
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2016 Bikini and Speedo Dodgeball World Championship Is Comin At Ya April 9th!
For more info-
2016 Bikini and Speedo Dodgeball World Championship
video by Kim Smith
There will be fun- I promise you that! Plan to come on down and enjoy the spectacle!
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Gloucester Smiles Even when you have to Shovel a Little Snow
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Survivors of the Snow
24 hours later cover by snow
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SPRING SLEDDING IN THE HOOD!
Our awesome neighborhood gang of kids (and parents)!
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DISCOVERY OF A NEW HYBRID BUTTERFLY: THE TANANA ARCTIC
Thank you to David Calvo and Catherine Ryan for sharing the following discovery and links!
After having been misidentified for more than sixty years, the newly identified butterfly makes its home in the spruce and aspen forest of the Tanana-Yukon River basin. Arctic species of butterflies such as the Tanana Arctic are able to survive in such extremely harsh conditions because their bodies produce a natural anti-freeze.
Why is this re-identification important? It could be holding clues about Alaska’s geological history. And the Tanana Arctic may be found to be the only butterfly endemic to Alaska. Also too it lives in an area where the permafrost is melting. Butterflies are known to quickly respond to climate change. The Tanana Arctic’s response could aid scientists in determining variaitions in the sensitive Arctic ecosystem.
Read More About the Tanana Arctic Butterfly Here:
Andrew Warren, who made the discovery, is the senior collections manager at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History. I had the great joy to travel with Thomas C. Emmel, the director at the McGuire Center, to Angangueo and interview him at the Sierra Chincua Monarch Butterfly Biosphere reserve. You can watch the interview on youtube at this link.
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Coconut’s First Day Home Post Emergency Gallbladder Surgery
They have bumped up her pain medication a little and we continue to pray she will have some reliefe soon. Please keep praying for our girl she isn’t out of the woods yet🙏
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It’s Spring! Let’s celebrate…
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Ok – so let’s all pretend that we’re not getting snow tonight and just enjoy the fact that today is the FIRST DAY OF SPRING!! Yes!!! Cheers to tulips, soft grass, and warm weather on the horizon. I’m even down for April showers if it brings May flowers.
To celebrate this turn of the corner, Saltwater Massage Studio is offering 10% off all massage therapy appointments THIS week if you mention this post.
Treat yourself. Winters are tough, and you made it.
To schedule, call (978)390-7600 or email info@saltwatermassage.com
(Offer ends Sunday April 27. Valid on full price appointments only.)
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Spring Snow
As we are waiting patiently for warm spring days, when it snows it is very pretty and clean outside.
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Get Out Your Running Shoes!
The Rocky Neck 5K Run/Walk & Team Challenge will be held this year on Sunday, May 15, 2016.
Participants registered before May 1 will receive a custom Rocky Neck 5K T-shirt.
Go to www.rockyneck5k.com to register online or visit the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Thursday through Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. to obtain a paper registration form.
The event is sponsored by the Rocky Neck Art Colony to benefit Gloucester’s Rocky Neck Cultural District and the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Building Fund. With chip-timed results, participants may compete individually or as a team in the popular Team Challenge. The Run/Walk along the breathtakingly beautiful seaside course will be capped off by a festive post-Race brunch celebration on the deck at Rocky Neck’s The Studio Restaurant.
The Rocky Neck 5K Run/Walk & Team Challenge is a fun community ‘happening’ to benefit RNAC, a neighborhood-based, volunteer organization committed to preserving Rocky Neck’s unique arts and maritime cultural heritage. Open to all, beginners can experience the joy of exercise in the outdoors while experienced runners can sharpen their times on a forgiving course. Everyone will enjoy creating memories individually or in a team with colleagues, family and friends.
The Team Challenge provides a great opportunity for groups from businesses, non-profits, clubs and affiliations of every size to show their colors, build organizational pride and share an experience to be long remembered.
The USATF (United States of America Track and Field) sanctioned event will take off from the Causeway on Rocky Neck. It will return along Gloucester’s ocean-rimmed Back Shore to finish on Rocky Neck where all participants are invited for a celebratory post-Race brunch and awards ceremony at The Studio Restaurant and Deck overlooking picturesque Smith Cove on Gloucester Harbor.
The Race start will be at 9 a.m., with packet pickup at Race Headquarters in the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck from 7:00 AM to 8:45 AM. Race participation is limited to 400. Participants registered before May 1 will receive a custom Rocky Neck 5K T-shirt.
If spots are still available on Race day, walk-in registration will be from 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Sign up early to insure participation. Go to www.rockyneck5k.com to register online or visit the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Thursday through Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. to obtain a paper registration form.
Volunteers will be positioned to direct visitors to street parking as well as designated lots in and around Rocky Neck. Space will be available in Rocky Neck Park along the Causeway for everyone to meet and warm up before the Race kicks off.
Sincerely,
Suzanne Gilbert Lee
Executive Director
Rocky Neck Art Colony
6 Wonson Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
director@rockyneckartcolony.org
The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck is generally open Thursday – Sunday year round.
Seasonal Hours are: June through September 20: 12-6pm, September 24 through May 12-4pm
Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck, 53 Rocky Neck Avenue is open seasonally May – October, seven days a week, 10am-6pm daily
Please visit all the galleries of the Rocky Neck Art Colony.
Galleries are located on Rocky Neck Avenue, the Madfish Wharf, Wonson Street and more!
Please visit www.rockyneckartcolony.org for the pdf download of our walking map & brochure, as well as a calendar of events.
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ROCKY NECK 5K with TEAM CHALLENGE – MAY 15 – REGISTER NOW
Participants Registered Before May 1 Will Receive a
Custom Rocky Neck 5K T-shirt.
Go to www.rockyneck5k.com to register online or visit the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Thursday through Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. to obtain a paper registration form.
The event is sponsored by the Rocky Neck Art Colony to benefit Gloucester’s Rocky Neck Cultural District and the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Building Fund. With chip-timed results, participants may compete individually or as a team in the popular Team Challenge. The Run/Walk along the breathtakingly beautiful seaside course will be capped off by a festive post-Race brunch celebration on the deck at Rocky Neck’s The Studio Restaurant.
The Rocky Neck 5K Run/Walk & Team Challenge is a fun community ‘happening’ to benefit RNAC, a neighborhood-based, volunteer organization committed to preserving Rocky Neck’s unique arts and maritime cultural heritage. Open to all, beginners can experience the joy of exercise in the outdoors while experienced runners can sharpen their times on a forgiving course. Everyone will enjoy creating memories individually or in a team with colleagues, family and friends.
The Team Challenge provides a great opportunity for groups from businesses, non-profits, clubs and affiliations of every size to show their colors, build organizational pride and share an experience to be long remembered.
The USATF (United States of America Track and Field) sanctioned event will take off from the Causeway on Rocky Neck. It will return along Gloucester’s ocean-rimmed Back Shore to finish on Rocky Neck where all participants are invited for a celebratory post-Race brunch and awards ceremony at The Studio Restaurant and Deck overlooking picturesque Smith Cove on Gloucester Harbor.
The Race start will be at 9 a.m., with packet pickup at Race Headquarters in the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck from 7:00 AM to 8:45 AM. Race participation is limited to 400. Participants registered before May 1 will receive a custom Rocky Neck 5K T-shirt.
If spots are still available on Race day, walk-in registration will be from 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Sign up early to insure participation. Go to www.rockyneck5k.com to register online or visit the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Thursday through Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. to obtain a paper registration form.
Volunteers will be positioned to direct visitors to street parking as well as designated lots in and around Rocky Neck. Space will be available in Rocky Neck Park along the Causeway for everyone to meet and warm up before the Race kicks off.
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What’s the Name of this Fishing Boat?
Someone asked me the name of this Gloucester Fishing Boat.
I have another painting of the same boat tied up at fisherman’s wharf.
Do any old timers know?
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Music Around Town ~ March 21-27, 2016
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TEN POUND ISLAND: RECOGNIZING ITS PAST AND PLOTTING ITS FUTURE
Presentation by Ward One Councilor Scott Memhard tonight at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center. To learn more and see the full power point presentation come to the meeting at 7pm at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center..
“Perhaps the most innovative idea in the report is to consider creating a community boat house — possibly similar to the house boats moored along the Annisquam River — and a dock upon Ten Pound Island that could host the Gloucester High School and YMCA community sailing and boating skills programs, as well as other public programs and access for rowing and kayaking.” ~ Mayor’s Ad-Hoc Recreational Boating Committee, 2016
Ten Pound Island Timeline
1644 Early settlers graze rams on the Island.
1817 Mariner Amos Story famously reports seeing a sea serpent (along with many others) near the Island. See account below.
1821 Ten Pound Island Lighthouse Station is established to safely guide mariners through Gloucester’s Inner Harbor.
1833-1849 Amos Story serves as Ten Pound Island Lighthouse Keeper.
1880 Winslow Homer stays with the lighthouse keeper during the summer creating over 50 watercolor paintings.
1881 Present conical cast iron tower, lined with brick, replaces original stone tower. Wooden keepers house is constructed.
1889 U.S. Fish and lobster hatchery is established.
1925 U.S. Coast Guard establishes first in the country air station, primarily to capture rumrunners during Prohibition.
1940 Lighthouse keeper’s wife Evelyn Hopkins honors Edward Snow, the Flying Santa who dropped Christmas presents from a plane for lighthouse keepers’ children, by nailing “Merry Christmas” boldly in newspaper, which could be read from the sky.
1954 Fish hatchery abandoned.
1956 Ten Pound island Light Station is decommissioned and replaced by a modern optic. The original fresnel lens is on display at the Maine Lighthouse Museum in Rockland.
1965 Keepers dwelling razed.
1988 The Lighthouse Preservation Society initiates restoration of Ten Pound Island Light.
1989 A modern optic was installed atop the tower and relit as a Federal aid to navigation.
1995 The oil house is restored.
1996 -1997 (*Possibly longer, checking dates) Shuttle to and from the Island is provided by the Gloucester Harbor Shuttle.
Currently, Ten Pound Island serves as an active aid to navigation.
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Gloucester Smiles ~ 181
Good Morning Gloucester 